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Meant

mɛnt
Page 39 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
Page 39 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
Illustrations
Page 10 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
Page 10 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
French troops march across a frozen river: probably meant the invasion of Holland in the winter of 1794-1795.
French troops march across a frozen river: probably meant the invasion of Holland in the winter of 1794-1795.
A man kneels before a king or army commander on his throne. Possibly meant here as an image of Mordecai for Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus gave Mordecai the signet ring that he had taken from Haman, but that is not depicted here. Or is it Haman for Ahasuerus? The print is part of an album.
A man kneels before a king or army commander on his throne. Possibly meant here as an image of Mordecai for Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus gave Mordecai the signet ring that he had taken from Haman, but that is not depicted here. Or is it Haman for Ahasuerus? The print is part of an album.
Page 38 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
Page 38 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
Sketchbook with 9 sheets, 3 of which are meant with a horse-drawn carriage and figure studies.
Sketchbook with 9 sheets, 3 of which are meant with a horse-drawn carriage and figure studies.
Page 11 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
Page 11 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
Sketchbook consisting of 75 sheets, some of which meant with faces in the Dutch East Indies.
Sketchbook consisting of 75 sheets, some of which meant with faces in the Dutch East Indies.
Her left hand rests on a basket. Page 16 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
Her left hand rests on a basket. Page 16 from a sketchbook with 38 sheets meant around the Ewijkshoeve.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The statue by Auguste Rodin that has come to be known as The Thinker wasn't meant to be a portrait of a man in thought. It's a portrait of Dante Aligheri.
  1. meant
    Preterit and past participle of mean.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
A "clue" originally meant a ball of thread. This is why one is said to "unravel" the clues of a mystery.
  1. (pa.t., pa.p) Meant
    of mean (v.t.).
Quotations
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Thomas B. Aldrich
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
Thomas B. Aldrich
And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. [Genesis 50:20]
Bible
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Marcus Aurelius
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Usage in the news

39.99 for Windows 8 Pro – and upgrading the tablet meant I wasn't damaging my main computer if I didn't like the way things went. news-gazette.com

But the general contractor was behind schedule, which meant more manpower, more hours, which cost us a fortune. greensboro.rhinotimes.com

As a playwright in Cuba, Carmen Duarte knew all too well what state-controlled repression meant. nytimes.com

Sheboygan Falls — A few years ago, winning the State Amateur Championship meant everything to Kyle Murphy. jsonline.com

Several embryos were found near the broken eggs, which meant the swans would have hatched in about three weeks. syracuse.com

In this program, Kathleen speaks about what JPII meant when he said that he hoped to "rekindle Eucharistic amazement.". radiomaria.us

Defence lawyers reveal more than they meant to in a closely watched legal case. economist.com

Data center project could make DHS what it was meant to be. gcn.com

I finally grasped what Bill Bradley meant by Iowa's " entrenched power" when I saw the man on horseback. tnr.com

The sweeps are part of a two-part process meant to eradicate rats from Ridgeleigh, Hillendale, Knettishall, Ridgely Oaks, Loch Raven Village, Towson Manor Village and parts of Towson Park. baltimoresun.com

The Life You're Meant to Live. charismamag.com

I wanted to inquire just what she meant. times-news.com

Here is our expanded, yearly listing of publishers' presence on Twitter, meant to show as wide of a range as possible. publishersweekly.com

Back then, limited distribution and difficulty discovering bands meant you really had to dig and become something of an obsessive. houstonpress.com

Are we meant to take Rick Perry as John Wayne or Jerry Lewis. ashingtonpost.com

Usage in scientific papers

We have studied the phase behavior of a simple model system that is meant to mimic membrane proteins confined in a quasi-two-dimensional geometry.
Phase Behavior of a Simple Model for Membrane Proteins

The reader should be warned that the qualification “chiral” is meant here in a different sense than in the term chiral CFT; it refers to the fact that a state is annihilated by half of the supersymmetry charges.
Conformal field theory, boundary conditions and applications to string theory

Which cosmology is the most symmetric? This question raises another: What is meant by ”most symmetric”? The notion of a Lie symmetry is a natural one when applied to systems of differential equations.
Is Nature Generic?

The basic problem is defining what is meant at finite temperature by a material under tension.
Formal Considerations about Fracture: Nucleation and Growth

These numbers are meant to indicate, in some sense to be defined, how likely it is that proposition b is true given that proposition a is known.
Physics with exotic probability theory

Usage in literature

Still, the dwarf was meant to be funny. "Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens" by G. K. Chesterton

And do you think he meant it? "Fair Harbor" by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

She had meant well, and I had certainly meant well too. "Chance" by Joseph Conrad

Such milk in Kentish Town meant money. "How It All Came Round" by L. T. Meade

Was that what my Aunt Kezia meant? "Out in the Forty-Five" by Emily Sarah Holt

What is meant by harmony of thought and expression? "Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism" by F. V. N. Painter

The action meant gestures, and gestures meant sweeps and circles. "Emmy Lou" by George Madden Martin

Later you may read him the story the artist meant to illustrate. "Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10" by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Perhaps he had meant some other James Conway. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Of course, I shall accept him when he does, and I coolly told Alicia so when she just as coolly asked me what I meant to do. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Usage in poetry
I rose to go, and felt the chill,
And shivered as I went;
Yet shivering wondered, and I wonder still,
What more that willow meant;
"In The Willow Shade" by Christina Georgina Rossetti Author object (113)
The form advanc'd with solemn step,
As though it meant to speak;
And thrice it mov'd its mutt'ring lip,
But silence did not break.
"Night Scenes Of Other Times" by Joanna Baillie Author object (354)
HE went, and he was gay to go;
And I smiled on him as he went.
My son, 'twas well he couldn't know
My darkest dread, nor what it meant--
"The Return" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
SOMETIMES a vision comes to me
Of what Thy world was meant to be;
Thy beauty all things shining through,
Thy love in all the works we do.
"Thy Kingdom Come" by Lucy Larcom Author object (452)
By measure. It was word and note,
The wind the wind had meant to be -
A little through the lips and throat.
The aim was song - the wind could see.
"The Aim Was Song" by Robert Frost Author object (567)
I don't know what C. meant me to mind
by her gift, but the sun returns
unbidden. Books get read and written.
My mother comes to visit. My father's
"Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased)" by William Matthews