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means
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
means
In strict philosophical usage, the prime mover or doer of an act is the agent. Thus we speak of man as a voluntary agent, a free agent. But in common usage, especially in business, an agent is not the prime actor, but only an instrument or factor, acting under orders or instructions. Compare CAUSE.
Synonyms:
actor, agent, doer, factor, instrument, mover, operator, performer, promoterAntonyms:
chief, inventor, originator, principalPreposition:
An agent of the company for selling, etc.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
means, agency, waynoun
how a result is obtained or an end is achieved
"a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success"
Synonyms:
direction, government agency, manner, way, delegacy, elbow room, substance, style, federal agency, agency, path, way of life, bureau, office, representation, fashion, authority, mode, roommeansnoun
an instrumentality for accomplishing some end
means, substancenoun
considerable capital (wealth or income)
"he is a man of means"
Synonyms:
nitty-gritty, meat, subject matter, core, nub, inwardness, sum, way, gist, heart and soul, substance, center, agency, centre, kernel, meaning, essence, message, heart, content, marrow, pith
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
meansn. sing. pl.
Synonyms:
instrument, method, mode, waymeansn. sing. pl.
Synonyms:
resource, appliance, expedient, shift, step, measuremeansn. sing. pl.
Synonyms:
revenue, income, resources, the wherewithal, ways and means
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
meansnoun
Synonyms:
property, possessions, wealth, resources, riches, estate, instrument, agency, instrumentality, method, way, facility, expedient, resource, contrivance, resort, device, artifice
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "means":
ways, mean, average, implies, way, media, medium, resources, pleas, methods, instruments, signifies, instrument, east, involves, tools, tool, entails, funds, designates, modes, avenues, method, represents, wherewithal, manner, approaches, channels, capacity, plea, facilities, is, mode, middle, measures, refers, translates, moyens, modalities, bias, medio, half, meaning, capabilities, midst
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#8 | is | |
#149 | message | |
#203 | way | |
#216 | center | |
#241 | office | |
#327 | resources | |
#331 | media | |
#395 | content | |
#401 | tools | |
#433 | room | |
#576 | east | |
#754 | means | |
#774 | average | |
#792 | style | |
#824 | centre | |
#889 | heart | |
#911 | methods | |
#928 | half | |
#951 | method | |
#1008 | mean | |
#1011 | agency | |
#1136 | facilities | |
#1141 | middle | |
#1195 | mode | |
#1247 | tool | |
#1415 | ways | |
#1431 | authority | |
#1441 | agent | |
#1478 | funds | |
#1614 | medium | |
#1617 | core | |
#1686 | capacity | |
#1695 | instruments | |
#1790 | path | |
#1873 | fashion | |
#2029 | measures | |
#2090 | factor | |
#2372 | direction | |
#2764 | meaning | |
#2807 | manner | |
#2973 | bureau | |
#3027 | operator | |
#3262 | channels | |
#3505 | kernel | |
#3601 | sum | |
#3682 | instrument | |
#3730 | represents | |
#3875 | representation | |
#3988 | capabilities | |
#4041 | meat | |
#4146 | approaches | |
#4288 | actor | |
#4308 | substance | |
#4771 | modes | |
#5113 | involves | |
#5453 | refers | |
#6805 | bias | |
#7805 | essence | |
#7927 | implies | |
#9445 | performer | |
#12702 | plea | |
#12773 | promoter | |
#12856 | midst | |
#14560 | marrow | |
#14975 | signifies | |
#16093 | mover | |
#17425 | translates | |
#19522 | avenues | |
#21890 | entails | |
#23582 | modalities | |
#24233 | pleas | |
#31473 | designates | |
#32803 | gist | |
#34073 | medio | |
#56838 | doer | |
#69995 | pith | |
#70251 | nub | |
#82935 | wherewithal | |
#111510 | moyens | |
#244606 | inwardness |
How to use means in a sentence?
It means everything. ... This gives us momentum, i’m really glad for our players, they really bought in.
It’s his punching shoulder, not his jab shoulder, but either one you have to be able to hit with both, which means you have to be able to extend it out there.
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.
The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).
If he's going to side with Assad and with Iran and Hezbollah, he's going to have a very serious problem with the Sunni countries in the region, that means he ... could very well become a target for those Sunni jihadists.
Translations for means
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- يعنيArabic
- prostředkyCzech
- Mittel, meintGerman
- μέσοGreek
- rimedojEsperanto
- medioSpanish
- ابزارPersian
- veux direFrench
- acmhainnIrish
- eszkHungarian
- caraIndonesian
- si intendeItalian
- אומרHebrew
- 방법Korean
- modoLatin
- middelNorwegian
- middelenDutch
- middelNorwegian Nynorsk
- midlerNorwegian
- znaczyPolish
- significaPortuguese
- средстваRussian
- medelSwedish
- viomboSwahili
- வழிமுறையாகTamil
- మూలాధారాలుTelugu
- kaynakTurkish
- засобиUkrainian
- 手段Chinese
- isu, iceboZulu
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