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mean as in: the mean score
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To find the mean of her test scores, she added them up and divided by the number of tests.mean = average
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Mean income is distorted by a small number of people with very high income. I suggest looking at median income instead.
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We have a mean annual rainfall of 23 inches.
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That is the mean; that is the average. (source)
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The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. (source)
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The log indicated a mean speed of between eight and nine miles. (source)
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The mean breadth of this territory does not exceed one hundred miles; but it is about nine hundred miles in length. (source)mean = average
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One hundred millions of men disseminated over the surface of the twenty-four States, and the three dependencies, which constitute the Union, would only give 762 inhabitants to the square league; this would be far below the mean population of France, which is 1,063 to the square league; or of England, which is 1,457; (source)
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It has been calculated that the whites advance every year a mean distance of seventeen miles along the whole of his vast boundary. (source)
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This would be a population proportionate to that of Europe, taken at a mean rate of 410 inhabitants to the square league. (source)
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The mean distance from the Atlantic to the Mississippi does not probably exceed seven hundred and fifty miles. (source)
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Computing the distance between the thirty-first and forty-fifth degrees, it amounts to nine hundred and seventy-three common miles; computing it from thirty-one to forty-two degrees, to seven hundred and sixty-four miles and a half. Taking the mean for the distance, the amount will be eight hundred and sixty-eight miles and three-fourths. (source)
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All I mean is— You're sayin' it's a lost cause, right? (source)mean = common meaning
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Maybe it was mean country, but not an inch was lean. (source)
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You mean you want to fry my eggs for me? (source)
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Just because she's our only daughter, it doesn't mean she's sterile. (source)mean = signify or show
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Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off. (source)mean = common meaning
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"I mean, this is—" The prince answered for him. (source)mean = am saying or trying to say
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In fact, and I don't mean to brag here, but it kind of felt like everyone wanted to get close to me.† (source)mean = common meaning
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I mean, no offense to Ivan, but they're just blobs.† (source)
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Here, put your hands on the controls, your feet on the rudder pedals, and I'll show you what I mean.† (source)
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"Well, that don't mean nothin'," said T.J., jerking away from Stacey's grip and hopping to his feet.† (source)
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Two-Bit couldn't deny this, so I went on: "I mean, I got an awful feeling something's gonna happen."† (source)
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"I just mean, if you don't feel up to it I could see if we could arrange an interpreter," Glen said.† (source)
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"I know what you mean," she might reply.† (source)
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