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.
An artificial kidney these days stillmeans a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
(transitive) Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, tosignify.[from 8th c.]
What does this hieroglyphmean?
2010, Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn,Short Cuts: A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication, Oxford University Press US,→ISBN,page33:
A term should be included if it's likely that someone would run across it and want to know what itmeans. This in turn leads to the somewhat more formal guideline of including a term if it is attested and idiomatic.
It was a goal thatmeant West Ham won on their first appearance at Wembley in 31 years, in doing so becoming the first team since Leicester in 1996 to bounce straight back to the Premier League through the play-offs.
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[…]But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject,means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
(usually withto) To be of some level of importance.
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After every qualification of property had been laid aside, the armies of the Roman emperors were still commanded, for the most part, by officers of liberal birth and education; but the common soldiers, like the mercenary troops of modern Europe, were drawn from themeanest, and very frequently from the most profligate, of mankind.
Prince John: Your foe has bloodied you, sir knight. Will you concede defeat? You fight too well to die somean a death. Will you not throw in your lot with me instead? Ivanhoe: That would be an evenmeaner death, Your Grace.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness,mean and embarrassing and sad.
It must have been amean typhoon that levelled this town.
2020 February 23, Drachinifel, 8:48 from the start, inThe Drydock - Episode 082[4], archived fromthe original on8 August 2022:
[…]in the context of ships availableat the time, theywere aircraft carrier - fleet carriers. Now, granted, they may not have been the biggest and largest andmeanest fleet carriers around, but they certainlywere fleet carriers.
2003 July, Debra Phillips,The High Price of a Good Man: A Novel[5], New York City:St. Martin's, page29:
We were sitting in Poetta’s candlelit kitchen waiting for some of her gut-burningchili to get done. Everybody that knows Poetta knows that she makes amean chili that if you eat it by lunchtime, it can clean out your entire system by the end of the day.
2021 July, Margaret Loudon,A Fatal Footnote[6], New York City:Berkley,→ISBN, page109:
She wasn’t the most accomplished cook in the world but she cold make amean stew, she knew how to roast a chicken, and she could whip up eggs at least three different ways.
(colloquial) Accomplished with great skill;deft; hard to compete with.
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In the mountain region of A-erh-t'ai Shan and Hsiang-t'ien Shan⁷, if themean 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.
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, ormean at least, as indeed it is […].
You may be able, by thismean, to review your own scientific acquirements.
1860, William Hamilton,Lectures on Metaphysics:
Philosophical doubt is not an end, but amean.
2011 April 14, “Rival visions”, inThe Economist:
Mr Obama produced an only slightly less ambitious goal for deficit reduction than the House Republicans, albeit working from a more forgiving baseline: $4 trillion over 12 years compared to $4.4 trillion over 10 years. But themeans by which he would achieve it are very different.
a.1563, Thomas Harding, "To the Reader", inThe Works of John Jewel (1845 ed.)
Verily in this treatise this hath been mine only purpose; and themean to bring the same to effect hath been such as whereby I studied to profit wholesomely, not to please delicately.
1606,The Trials of Robert Winter, Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Rob. Keyes, Thomas Bates, and Sir Everard Digby, at Westminster, for High Treason, being Conspirators in the Gunpowder-Plot:
That it was lawful and meritorious to kill and destroy the king, and all the said hereticks. — Themean to effect it, they concluded to be, that, 1. The king, the queen, the prince, the lords spiritual and temporal, the knights and burgoses of the parliament, should be blown up with powder. 2. That the whole royal issue male should be destroyed. S. That they would lake into their custody Elizabeth and Mary the king's daughters, and proclaim the lady Elizabeth queen. 4. That they should feign a Proclamation in the name of Elizabeth, in which no mention should be made of alteration of religion, nor that they were parties to the treason, until they had raised power to perform the same; and then to proclaim, all grievances in the kingdom should be reformed.
Apply desperate physic: / We must not now use balsamum, but fire, / The smarting cupping-glass, for that's themean / To purge infected blood, such blood as hers.
1997, John Llewelyn Davies with David J. Vaughan,Republic, translation of original by Plato, page263:
Then will not this constitution be a kind ofmean between aristocracy and oligarchy?
1996, Harris Rackham,The Nicomachean Ethics, translation of original by Aristotle, page118:
as amean, it implies certain extremes between which it lies, namely the more and the less
1875, William Smith and Samuel Cheetham, editors,A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities,Little, Brown and Company, volume 1, page 10, s.v.Accentus Ecclesiasticus,
It presents a sort ofmean between speech and song, continually inclining towards the latter, never altogether leaving its hold on the former; it is speech, though always attuned speech, in passages of average interest and importance; it is song, though always distinct and articulate song, in passages demanding more fervid utterance.
(music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, thealto part in polyphonic music; analto instrument.[from 15th c.]
1624, John Smith,Generall Historie, Kupperman, published1988, page147:
Of these [rattles] they have Base, Tenor, Countertenor,Meane, and Treble.
(statistics) Theaverage of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; thearithmetic mean.[from 15th c.]
1997,Angus Deaton,The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy,[9] World Bank Publications,→ISBN,page 51:
Note that (1.41) is simply the probability-weightedmean without any explicit allowance for the stratification; each observation is weighted by its inflation factor and the total divided by the total of the inflation factors for the survey.
2002,Clifford A. Pickover,The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge[10], Cambridge University Press,→ISBN, page246:
Luckily, even though the arithmeticmean is unusable, both the harmonic and geometricmeans settle to precise values as the amount of data increases.
2003, P. S. Bullen,Handbook of Means and Their Inequalities[11], Springer,→ISBN, page251:
The generalized powermeans include powermeans, certain Ginimeans, in particular the counter-harmonicmeans.
(mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as2 and3 in1:2=3:6.
1825, Silvestre François Lacroix, translated by John Farrar,An Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic, third edition, page 102:
...if four numbers be in proportion, the product of the first and last, or of the two extremes, is equal to the product of the second and third, or of the twomeans.
1999, Dawn B. Sova,How to Solve Word Problems in Geometry, McGraw-Hill,,→ISBN, page85:
Using themeans-extremes property of proportions, you know that the product of the extremes equals the product of themeans. The ratiot/4 = 5/2 can be rewritten ast:4 = 5:2, in which the extremes aret and 2, and themeans are 4 and 5.
2007, Carolyn C. Wheater,Homework Helpers: Geometry, Career Press,,→ISBN, page99:
In, the product of themeans is, and the product of the extremes is. Both products are 54.
