| mean | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. mean, mean value | an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n. |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| ~ average, norm | a statistic describing the location of a distribution.; "it set the norm for American homes" |
| ~ arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment, expectation | the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values. |
| ~ geometric mean | the mean of n numbers expressed as the n-th root of their product. |
| ~ harmonic mean | the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers. |
| v. (communication) | 2. intend, mean | mean or intend to express or convey.; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" |
| ~ stand for, symbolize, represent, symbolise, typify | express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol.; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" |
| ~ convey | make known; pass on, of information.; "She conveyed the message to me" |
| ~ signify | convey or express a meaning.; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?" |
| ~ spell, import | indicate or signify.; "I'm afraid this spells trouble!" |
| ~ aim | direct (a remark) toward an intended goal.; "She wanted to aim a pun" |
| ~ aim, drive, get | move into a desired direction of discourse.; "What are you driving at?" |
| v. (stative) | 3. entail, imply, mean | have as a logical consequence.; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" |
| ~ necessitate | cause to be a concomitant. |
| v. (communication) | 4. intend, mean, signify, stand for | denote or connote.; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means" |
| ~ denote, refer | have as a meaning.; "`multi-' denotes `many' " |
| ~ signify | convey or express a meaning.; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. intend, mean, think | have in mind as a purpose.; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night" |
| ~ design | intend or have as a purpose.; "She designed to go far in the world of business" |
| ~ be after, plan | have the will and intention to carry out some action.; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" |
| ~ purpose, aim, purport, propose | propose or intend.; "I aim to arrive at noon" |
| v. (stative) | 6. mean | have a specified degree of importance.; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. have in mind, mean, think of | intend to refer to.; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" |
| ~ associate, colligate, link, relate, connect, tie in, link up | make a logical or causal connection.; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" |
| ~ cite, mention, refer, advert, name, bring up | make reference to.; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. mean | destine or designate for a certain purpose.; "These flowers were meant for you" |
| ~ destine, intend, designate, specify | design or destine.; "She was intended to become the director" |
| adj. | 9. average, mean | approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| ~ normal | conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal.; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events" |
| adj. | 10. hateful, mean | characterized by malice.; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood" |
| ~ nasty, awful | offensive or even (of persons) malicious.; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?" |
| adj. | 11. base, mean, meanspirited | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" |
| ~ ignoble | completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part" |
| adj. | 12. mean | excellent.; "famous for a mean backhand" |
| ~ argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, slang, cant | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| ~ skilled | having or showing or requiring special skill.; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade" |
| adj. | 13. beggarly, mean | marked by poverty befitting a beggar.; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" |
| ~ poor | characterized by or indicating poverty.; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town" |
| adj. | 14. mean, mingy, miserly, tight | (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" |
| ~ stingy, ungenerous | unwilling to spend.; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" |
| adj. | 15. beggarly, mean | (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt. |
| ~ stingy, ungenerous | unwilling to spend.; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" |
| adj. | 16. bastardly, mean | of no value or worth.; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic" |
| ~ contemptible | deserving of contempt or scorn. |
| bully | | |
| n. (person) | 1. bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo | a cruel and brutal fellow. |
| ~ aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker | someone who attacks. |
| ~ bullyboy | a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction. |
| ~ muscleman, muscle | a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard.; "the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him" |
| ~ skinhead | a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations. |
| ~ plug-ugly, tough guy | someone who bullies weaker people. |
| n. (person) | 2. bully | a hired thug. |
| ~ hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie, goon, tough | an aggressive and violent young criminal. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm | be bossy towards.; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young" |
| ~ intimidate | make timid or fearful.; "Her boss intimidates her" |
| ~ domineer, tyrannise, tyrannize | rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner.; "her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her" |
| v. (communication) | 4. browbeat, bully, swagger | discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate. |
| ~ blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle, palaver | influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.; "He palavered her into going along" |
| adj. | 5. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell | very good.; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ good | having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office" |
| delineate | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. define, delineate | show the form or outline of.; "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object" |
| ~ show | make visible or noticeable.; "She showed her talent for cooking"; "Show me your etchings, please" |
| v. (stative) | 2. define, delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify | determine the essential quality of. |
| ~ determine | fix in scope; fix the boundaries of.; "the tree determines the border of the property" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ redefine | give a new or different definition to.; "She redefined his duties" |
| v. (creation) | 3. delineate, limn, outline | trace the shape of. |
| ~ lipstick | form by tracing with lipstick.; "The clown had lipsticked circles on his cheeks" |
| ~ contour | form the contours of. |
| ~ draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" |
| v. (contact) | 4. delineate, describe, draw, line, trace | make a mark or lines on a surface.; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" |
| ~ mark | make or leave a mark on.; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads" |
| ~ construct | draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions.; "construct an equilateral triangle" |
| ~ inscribe | draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible. |
| ~ circumscribe | draw a line around.; "He drew a circle around the points" |
| ~ circumscribe | to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect. |
| ~ draw | engage in drawing.; "He spent the day drawing in the garden" |
| ~ draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" |
| ~ write | mark or trace on a surface.; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet" |
| v. (communication) | 5. delineate | describe in vivid detail. |
| ~ describe, depict, draw | give a description of.; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" |
| adj. | 6. delineate, delineated, represented | represented accurately or precisely. |
| ~ depicted, portrayed, pictured | represented graphically by sketch or design or lines. |
| ~ described | represented in words especially with sharpness and detail.; "the vividly described wars" |
| ~ diagrammatic, diagrammatical | shown or represented by diagrams. |
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