Mean business

Definition

mean 1 /mi:n / v ( pt, pp meant /ment/) ၁။ ~ sth (to sb) အဓိပၸာယ္ရသည္။ အဓိပၸာယ္ သက္ေရာက္သည္။ ဆိုလိုသည္။ A dictionary tells you what words mean. ❍ What does this sentence mean? ❍ These symbols mean nothing to me. ❍ The flashing lights mean (that) the road is blocked. ၂။ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္သည္။ အဓိပၸာယ္ သက္ေရာက္သည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ လကၡဏာရိွသည္။ ဆိုလိုသည္။ Spending too much now will mean a shortage of cash next year. ❍ Do you have any idea what it means to be poor? ❍ The warmer weather means (that) spring is here. ❍ This new order will mean (us) working overtime. ၃။ (က) ~ sth for sb ; ~ sth (as sth) ; ~ sth (to sb) ဆိုလိုသည္။ သေဘာရိွသည္။ ရည္ရြယ္သည္။ What did she mean by leaving so early? (ie Why did she do it?) ❍ He means what he says (ie is not joking, exaggerating, etc). ❍ Don't laugh! I mean it (ie I am serious)! ❍ He means (to cause) trouble/ mischief. ❍ She meant this gift for you. ❍ I never meant that you should come alone. ❍ She means to succeed. ❍ I'm sorry I hurt you: I didn't mean to. ❍ I wasn't serious. I meant it as a joke. ❍ I didn't mean you to read the letter. ❍ You're meant to (ie You are supposed to) pay before you go in. ❍ I mean you no harm. ❍ He means no harm to anyone. (ခ) ဆိုလိုသည္။ ရည္ရြယ္သည္။ What did he mean by that remark? ❍ Do you mean Miss Anne Smith or Miss Mary Smith? ❍ Did he mean (that) he was dissatisfied with our service? ၄။ ~sb for sth ရည္ရြယ္သည္။ ျဖစ္ေစ လိုေသာ ဆႏၵရိွသည္။ အလားအလာရိွသည္။ I was never meant for the army (ie did not have the qualities needed to become a soldier). ❍ She was never meant to be a teacher. ❍ His father meant him to be an engineer. ၅။ ~ sth to sb (no passive) တန္ဖိုးရိွသည္။ အေရးပါသည္။ အရာေရာက္သည္။ Your friendship means a great deal to me. ❍ $ 20 means a lot (ie represents a lot of money) to a poor person. ❍ Money means nothing to him. ❍ You know how much you mean to me (ie how much I like you). ❏ be meant to be sth [ IDM ] အဆိုရိွသည္။ This restaurant is meant to be excellent. ❏ mean business [ IDM ] ( infml ) တကယ္တမ္း လုပ္မည့္ပံု။ He has the look of a man who means business. ❏ mean to say [ IDM ] ဆိုလိုသည္။ Do you mean to say you've lost it? ❏ mean well [ IDM ] ( derog ) ေစတနာေကာင္းသည္။ He's hopelessly inefficient, but I suppose he means well. mean 2 /mi:n / adj ( -er,- est ) ၁။ တြန္႔တိုေသာ။ ကုတ္ကတ္ေသာ။ ႏွေျမာေသာ။ She's too mean to make a donation. ၂။ ~ (to sb) ဆိုးရြားေသာ။ ယုတ္မာေသာ။ မၾကင္နာေသာ။ ရက္စက္ေသာ။ That was a mean trick! ❍ It was mean of you to eat all the food. ❍ Don't be so mean to your little brother! ၃။ ( esp US ) ဆိုးသြမ္းေသာ။ ခက္ထန္ေသာ။ ေဒါသ ႀကီးေသာ။ He looks like a mean character. ၄။ ႏံုခ်ာ ေသာ။ စုတ္ျပတ္ေသာ။ mean houses in the poorest part of the city. ၅။ ညံ့ေသာ။ အားနည္းေသာ။ ႏံုခ်ာေသာ။ This should be clear even to the meanest intelligence. ၆။ ( dated ) အညတရျဖစ္ေသာ။ နိမ့္က်ေသာ။ The meanest labourer has the same rights as the richest landowner. ၇။ ( infml approv ) အလြန္ ကြၽမ္းက်င္ေသာ၊ လက္ေကာင္းေသာ။ ေတာ္ေသာ။ a mean golfer ❍ She certainly plays a mean game of cards. ❏ meanie /'mi:ni / n ( infml ) ကပ္ေစးႏွဲေကာ္တရာ။ Give me some more, you meanie! meanly adv meanness n [U] ❏ no mean sth [ IDM ] ( approv ) သာမေညာင္ည မဟုတ္ ေသာ။ ေပါ့ေသးေသးမဟုတ္ေသာ။ She's no mean chess player. ❍ That was no mean feat. mean 3 /mi:n / n ၁။ အလယ္အလတ္။ You must find a mean between frankness and rudeness. ၂။ ( mathematics ) (က) ပ်မ္းမွ်။ The mean of 13, 5 and 27 is found by adding them together and dividing by 3. (ခ) သမတ္ကိန္း။ adj အလယ္အလတ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ပ်မ္းမွ်ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ဗဟို က်ေသာ။ the mean sea-level ❍ the mean temperature on a certain day. ❏ the happy/golden mean [ IDM ] သင့္တင့္မွ်တေသာ လမ္းစဥ္။

Examples

1. The word means something different in French.
2. What does ‘pulchritude’ mean?
3. [mean something by something] : Everything depends on what you mean by the word ‘free’.
4. When you shake your head it usually means ‘no’.
5. For most people
6. Paris means romance.
7. His behaviour doesn’t mean that he doesn’t like you.
8. [take something to mean something] : I took their silence to mean disapproval.
9. That dark patch means that water is coming in.
10. The look on her face meant only one thing – trouble.
11. [mean someone something] : I know they didn’t mean our family any disrespect.
12. [mean someone harm] : She had never meant him any real harm.
13. [mean to do something] : Whoops! I didn’t mean to step on your toe.
14. I mean to leave that meeting with a new contract.
15. [mean someone to do something] : It was our secret – I didn’t mean you to tell him.
16. We didn’t mean you to lose your job.
17. [mean something as a joke/compliment/insult] : Don’t be offended: she meant it as a compliment.
18. [something means doing something] : The new agreement means accepting lower wages.
19. This development could mean that the lawsuit will be dropped.
20. No
21. I don’t mean her – I mean the tall woman.