3401 collocations for meanes

A word may mean one thing by itself.

Yet, to let go, would have meant certain death to the old fellow, and the thought spurred me to greater exertions.

But perhaps he means no harm, Bruce.

This does not necessarily mean the men with the longest string of academic degrees, the men who can write the best poems or make the best speeches on public occasions; it means the thinking men who are brave, talented, spiritual, and warm-hearted.

"Yes," I objected, "but they mean business.

"It is something to me," he replied insistently, "because it means a great deal to you.

It means a great deal of work and responsibility, it means collecting funds and giving up one's scanty leisure, it means devoted service, but it has been done, and it has been kept up even during war time, though with great difficulty as to funds, because of the inestimable benefit to the children.

He told himself the Fates had decreed it, and the game had to be played out to the end, The principal thing now was to keep the pieces moving and prevent a checkmate, for that would mean ruin!

I must tell my husbandeverything," she concluded, and manifestly not meaning a word of what she said.

" "That paper," she said in a low voice, "means life to me instead of a living death; it means more than I can tell you, more than even you can understand.

"Oh, you mean your work among the mill girls here.

True, I would glory in themah, luxury and riches mean little to me, my dear, and I can conceive of no greater happiness than to starve with you.

That means war, for it is impossible to make over anybody but yourself.

He had an important business engagement for the next day, Wednesday, which he failed to keep, and this may mean a considerable loss to him.

" The malignant look with which these words was accompanied showed at once that the speaker meant mischief.

That meant a lot of money, a fat lot of money.

These vehicles were run by a man who was pointed out as a "character," which means a sort of licensed nuisance.

Next thing we know, with that crowd that don't mean any good to you, this family is going to find itself with a girl in trouble on its hands.

We have nothing to wait for, I mean money or anything of that sort.

Frontier protection is not generally intended to prevent a serious attack, but means rather a kind of police action.

And I wanted it so!that first love that means everythingthe love he gave her when I was only a messy little girl, with pig-tails and too many hands and feet!

In old times the capture of a nation's capital meant the end of the war, but we have seen capitals captured and the war not modified a bit by it.

Numerically the rank we occupy in Europe is already very inferior to what it formerly was; and yet number means power more than ever nowadays.

Considered in themselves, apart from the traditions of formality, these are quite good play material or stimuli, and Froebel meant the time to come "when we shall speak of the doll and the hobby horse as the first plays of the awakening life of the girl and the boy," but he died before he had done so.

In all countries the losses by such cessations from labour are little as compared with those due to the spirit which in England is called "ca'-canny" or the shirking of performance of work, and of sabotage, which means the deliberate destruction of machinery in operation.

3401 collocations for  meanes