means
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
means/miːnz/
▶plural noun
- 1 [treated as sing. or pl.] an action or system by which a result is achieved.
- 2 financial resources; income.
■ substantial resources; wealth.
– phrases
by all means of course.
by any means [with neg.] at all.
by means of by using.
by no means (or by no manner of means) certainly not.
a means to an end a thing that is not valued in itself but is useful in achieving an aim.
by all means of course.
by any means [with neg.] at all.
by means of by using.
by no means (or by no manner of means) certainly not.
a means to an end a thing that is not valued in itself but is useful in achieving an aim.
'means' also found in these Oxford entries:
ability
- able
- access
- AD
- aerosol
- afford
- airbrush
- alibi
- alimony
- allopathy
- allosteric
- altogether
- amoral
- amplitude modulation
- angina
- animation
- antique
- anyone
- appanage
- apport
- appraise
- approachable
- Archimedean screw
- arrester
- at
- avenue
- badmash
- balloon angioplasty
- beat
- because
- belt
- bend
- bevel gear
- bless
- blot
- blowpipe
- body art
- Boolean
- bottom feeder
- bracket
- breeches buoy
- bridge-and-tunnel
- by
- camouflage
- capital levy
- carrot
- cash
- catechetical
- catechize
- censure
