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mean

(Average), adjective central, grouping, medial, median, medium, mesial, middle, midmost, statistical average

mean

(Base), adjective abject, brutal, contemptible, degrading, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, ignoble, ignominious, inappreciable, inconsiderate, intermediate, loathsome, low-grade, low-minded, Machiavellian, malevolent, mediocre, mercenary, miserly, nasty, niggardly, odious, paltry, penurious, perverse, questionable, servile, shady, shameful, spiteful, vicious, vile, villainous, wretched

mean

noun average, balance, center, heart, mean proportion, median, mediocrity, medium, middle ground, middle state, normal, rule

mean

verb affirm, allude to, bespeak, betoken, connote, convey, declare, denote, express, imply, indicate, intend, intimate, manifest, propose, represent, signify

MEAN. This word is sometimes used for mesne. (q.v.)

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Aladdin bade her keep her cotton, for he would sell the lamp instead.

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Only when my servant came to trim the lamps and make all light and habitable, she would come in with me and spend her time sitting on her haunches watching an invisible extra man as he moved about behind my shoulder.

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Still watching me, he laid them one upon the other, folded them long-wise, gave them a twist, set fire to them at the lamp, and dropped the ashes into the tray.

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Try to forget that word," replied the man with the lamp, in a tone which as little admitted of a reply as one of the famous decrees of Minos.

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Quietly they surveyed the friendly place, burning its lamps either in expectation of them or because Rodney was still there talking to Cassandra.

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They fed the stone lamp between their knees, and nibbled at the half-warm seal-meat, and watched the black soot gather on the roof for seventy-two long hours.

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At first, all that the somewhat faint light given by the lamp revealed was a room hewn out of the living rock, and apparently not more than ten feet square.

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Every afternoon at about the time when the public lamps were lighted, they fared forth on this duty, and made and brought home such purchases as were needful.

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He took up the lamp, and, in an absolute silence, we returned to the smoking-room.

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This concentration of the footman upon his lamps, and his indifference to what was passing in Levin, at first astounded him, but immediately on considering the question he realized that no one knew or was bound to know his feelings, and that it was all the more necessary to act calmly, sensibly, and resolutely to get through this wall of indifference and attain his aim.

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Coming to the workshop, she saw the lamp burning on the forge, and everything as Sim had left it.

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The hilltop, the cool air of the night, the company of the great monuments, the sight of the city under his feet, with its hills and valleys and crossing files of lamps, drew him by all he had of the poetic, and he turned that way; and by that quite innocent deflection, ripened the crop of his venial errors for the sickle of destiny.