"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

mean verbo

mean + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 283
mean trouble • mean business • mean death • mean money • mean people • mean jobs • mean things • mean war • mean life • ...
verbo + mean
Kolokacji: 18
give meaning • interpreted to mean • seem to mean • come to mean • used to mean • ...
mean + preposición
Kolokacji: 37
mean by • mean for • mean to • mean about • mean that • ...
mean + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 57
literally mean • necessarily mean • originally meant • simply mean • generally mean • actually mean • clearly meant • merely mean • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 12
(1) literally, honestly
Kolokacji: 2
  • But the book was not meant primarily as a love story, and neither is the movie.
  • And that, at least in the Hitler years, primarily meant looking out for himself.
  • Was the exhibition therefore primarily meant to be a political statement?
  • Object relations theory was primarily meant to explain human behavior.
  • "Processing" primarily means to assess data in a critical way.
  • The system is primarily meant for larger long-distance aircraft like the 747 and 767.
  • After all, this is meant primarily as a demonstration for the British cabinet or whatever.
  • By this, I mean primarily measures which integrate the national networks and increase the quality of the public services.
  • It was primarily meant as a research library, and its books did not circulate.
  • "It is meant primarily to get us ready for the ads," he writes.
3. initially meant = początkowo oznaczać initially meant
4. mainly mean = głównie oznaczaj mainly mean
(4) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(5) generally, specifically
Kolokacji: 2
(11) alone, solely, exclusively
Kolokacji: 3
(12) normally, commonly
Kolokacji: 2

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