mean

To intend.

I didn't mean to knock your tooth out.

I mean to go to Arévalo in Spain this summer; been meaning to tell you for weeks, but I've just found the time.

To intend.

Don't be angry; she meant well.

To intend.

Actually this desk was meant for the subeditor.

Man was not meant to question such things.

To intend.

Your reasoning seems needlessly abstruse, complex, and verbose for me. I mean, could you dumb it down for my sake?

To convey (a meaning).

The sky is red this morning—does that mean we're in for a storm?

There are four weekly services to Pyongyang (; Pingrang; hard-sleeper ¥1164-1214, soft-sleeper ¥1692-1737). The K27 and K28 both leave twice a week from Beijing Train Station, meaning there’s a train on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Common; general.

Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.

a man of mean parentage

a mean abode

Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.

a mean appearance

a mean dress

Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.

a mean motive

It was mean of you to steal that little girl's piggy bank.

Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.

The Roman legions and great Caesar found / Our fathers no mean foes.

Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.

The mean family has 2.4 children.

In the mountain region of A-erh-t'ai Shan and Hsiang-t'ien Shan⁷, if the mean west wind velocity is five meters per second, the high tendency at 700mb on the anterior mountain slope may exceed 40 meters in 12 hours.

Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.

I have declared in the causes what harm costiveness hath done in procuring this disease; if it be so noxious, the opposite must needs be good, or mean at least, as indeed it is […].

being of middle age and a mean stature