Measuring

Definition

means /mi:nz / n ၁။ [sing or pl v ] နည္းစနစ္။ နည္းလမ္း။ The passport was obtained by illegal means. ❍ Television is an effective means of communication. ❍ There is no means of finding out what happened. ❍ All possible means have been tried. ၂။ [pl] ေငြ။ ဥစၥာဓန ႂကြယ္ဝမႈ။ be a man of means (ie a wealthy man) ❍ She lacks the means to support a large family. ❍ A person of your means can afford it. ❏ by all means [ IDM ] ( fml ) (လုပ္ခြင့္ျပဳသည့္ အခါမ်ဳိး၌ သံုးေလ့ရိွသည့္စကား)။ ရပါတယ္။ ‘Can I see it?’ ‘By all means. ’ ❏ by means of sth [ IDM ] ( fml ) အားျဖင့္။ ျဖင့္။ lift a load by means of a crane. ❏ by no means ; not by any (manner of) means [ IDM ] လံုးဝ။ နည္းနည္းမွ်။ မည္သည့္နည္း ႏွင့္မွ်။ She is by no means poor; in fact, she's quite rich. ❍ We haven't won yet, not by any manner of means. ❏ means test n ေထာက္ပံ့ေၾကး ရသင့္ မရသင့္ အေျခအေနမွန္ကို စံုစမ္းျခင္း။ ❏ means-tested adj ယင္းသို႔ စံုစမ္းရာတြင္ ရသင့္၍ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ ေသာ။ means-tested benefits. ❏ a means to an end [ IDM ] ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ျပည့္ေစေသာ နည္းလမ္း။ I didn't enjoy my first job but saw it as a means to an end.

Examples

1. Information is not easily obtained by any other means.
2. An effective means for finding qualified job applicants
3. [means of] : What means of transport is she using?
4. [no means of doing something] : We had no means of warning them.
5. [the means by which] : Testing is still the usual means by which students’ progress is measured.
6. [have the means (to do something)] : Small businesses don’t have the means to develop a sophisticated Internet presence.
7. [beyond/within your means] : Many medical charges are beyond the means of poorer families.
8. [according to someone’s means] : You are invited to contribute according to your means.
9. [a man/woman of means] : He had the well-dressed appearance of a man of means.