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Results for: "mean"

Translating from English to Malagasy

Translations:

mean — to convey, indicate
→ mampiseho
→ midika
mean — of a word
→ midika
→ te hilaza
mean — having the mean as its value
→ salasala
→ salantsalany

English definitions WordNet

NOUN 1

  1. an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

    Synonymsmean value

VERB 7

  1. mean or intend to express or convey

    • “You never understand what I mean!”
    • “what do his words intend?”
    Synonymsintend

  2. have as a logical consequence

    • “The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers”
    Synonymsentailimply

  3. denote or connote; means `house' in French"

    • “`maison'”
    • “An example sentence would show what this word means”
    Synonymsintendsignifystand for
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  1. have in mind as a purpose

    • “I mean no harm”
    • “I only meant to help you”
    • “She didn't think to harm me”
    • “We thought to return early that night”
    Synonymsintendthink

  2. have a specified degree of importance

    • “My ex-husband means nothing to me”
    • “Happiness means everything”

  3. intend to refer to

    • “I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France”
    • “Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!”
    Synonymsthink ofhave in mind

  4. destine or designate for a certain purpose

    • “These flowers were meant for you”

ADJECTIVE 8

  1. approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

    • “the average income in New England is below that of the nation”
    • “of average height for his age”
    • “the mean annual rainfall”
    Synonymsaverage

  2. characterized by malice

    • “a hateful thing to do”
    • “in a mean mood”
    Synonymshateful

  3. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality

    • “that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke”
    • “taking a mean advantage”
    • “chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare”
    • “something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics”
    Synonymsbasemeanspirited
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  1. excellent

    • “famous for a mean backhand”

  2. marked by poverty befitting a beggar

    • “a beggarly existence in the slums”
    • “a mean hut”
    Synonymsbeggarly

  3. (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

    • “a mean person”
    • “he left a miserly tip”
    Synonymsmingymiserlytight

  4. (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

    Synonymsbeggarly

  5. of no value or worth

    • “I was caught in the bastardly traffic”
    Synonymsbastardly