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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
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?
This means we must subject the machinetechnologyto control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machineand the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machinethe servant of man. That is the revolution that is coming. That revolutionnow that the people hold the residual powers of governmentneed not be a repetition of 1776. It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal.
If it was unanimous, that means all of them are accountable for the action. If they all thought it was a good idea and it’s a bad idea, then maybe they should all leave.
The interim suspension means the fraternity loses all privileges as a recognized student organization pending the outcome of the investigations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
Israel takes a strong line against terrorism regardless of who the perpetrators are. I have ordered the security forces to use all means at their disposal to apprehend the murderers and bring them to justice.
We fly for around 20 minutes in the sky and sometimes we fly over people's houses, we are concerned if something happens and we find ourselves with no means of defense.
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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