Meanings (ES + gloss)
malo
Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
a mean appearance
a mean dress
avieso • desconsiderado • mala gente • mala onda • maldoso • malintencionado • malo • malulo • mesquino • mezquino • ruin
Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
It was mean of you to steal that little girl's piggy bank.
a mean motive
mesquino • mezquino • tacaño
Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
He's so mean. I've never seen him spend so much as five pounds on presents for his children.
maldoso • malo • malvado • ruin
Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
Watch out for her: she's mean. I said good morning to her, and she punched me in the nose.
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
medio
Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.
In the mountain region of A-erh-t'ai Shan and Hsiang-t'ien Shan⁷, if the mean west wind velocity is five meters per second, the high tendency at 700mb on the anterior mountain slop…
The mean family has 2.4 children.
Phrases
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
medio • recurso
A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
To say truth, it is a meane full of uncertainty and danger.
You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements.
media
Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
Then will not this constitution be a kind of mean between aristocracy and oligarchy?
as a mean, it implies certain extremes between which it lies, namely the more and the less
media
Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
Phrases
Cesàro meanChisini meanHeronian meanHölder meanabsolute meanarithmetic meanarithmetic-geometric meancontraharmonic meangeneralised f-meangeneralized f-meangeomeangeometric meangolden meangrand meanharmonic meanlogarithmic meanmeanlessmeanspopulation meanpower meanquadratic meanquasi-arithmetic meanregression to the meanregression toward the meanroot mean squaresample meansemimeanweighted mean
Meanings (ES + gloss)
proponerse
To intend.
Don't be angry; she meant well.
destinar
To intend.
Actually this desk was meant for the subeditor.
Man was not meant to question such things.
en qué sentido • querer decir • significar
To convey (a meaning).
The sky is red this morning—does that mean we're in for a storm?
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, mean…
digo • intencionar decir • miento • querer decir • referirse a
To convey (a meaning).
He's a little different, if you know what I mean.
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.
decir en serio • hablar en serio
To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
Does she really mean what she said to him last night?
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
producir [un resultado] • resultar
To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
One faltering step means certain death.
This breakthrough will mean that we spend less on electricity bills.
importar • significar
To be of some level of importance.
Formality and titles mean nothing in their circle.
That little dog meant everything to me.
lamentarse • reclamar
To lament.
Thanne morned Mede · and mened hire to the kynge / To haue space to speke · spede if she myȝte.
They were forced to mean our estate to the Queen of England.
Phrases
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