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mean as in:  the mean score

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  • That is the mean; that is the average.  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • It has been calculated that the whites advance every year a mean distance of seventeen miles along the whole of his vast boundary.  (source)
  • This would be a population proportionate to that of Europe, taken at a mean rate of 410 inhabitants to the square league.  (source)
  • The mean distance from the Atlantic to the Mississippi does not probably exceed seven hundred and fifty miles.  (source)
  • 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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common meaning

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  • All I mean is— You're sayin' it's a lost cause, right?  (source)
    mean = common meaning
  • Maybe it was mean country, but not an inch was lean.  (source)
  • 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
  • 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
  • "I mean, this is—" The prince answered for him.  (source)
    mean = am saying or trying to say
  • 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
  • I mean, no offense to Ivan, but they're just blobs.†  (source)
  • Here, put your hands on the controls, your feet on the rudder pedals, and I'll show you what I mean.†  (source)
  • "Well, that don't mean nothin'," said T.J., jerking away from Stacey's grip and hopping to his feet.†  (source)
  • Two-Bit couldn't deny this, so I went on: "I mean, I got an awful feeling something's gonna happen."†  (source)
  • "I just mean, if you don't feel up to it I could see if we could arrange an interpreter," Glen said.†  (source)
  • "I know what you mean," she might reply.†  (source)
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