"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
(4) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(5) generally, specifically
Kolokacji: 2
1. clearly meant = najwyraźniej oznaczać clearly meant
2. mean exactly = oznaczaj dokładnie mean exactly
  • He doesn't mean exactly that, she thought with sudden insight.
  • I'm curious what they mean exactly by the comments on the 3D.
  • But you might be unclear as to what it exactly means.
  • I was only fifteen and did not know what he meant exactly.
  • Yet the number means exactly the opposite in each case.
  • My legal friends may understand better than I do what that exactly means.
  • "At the time, I didn't know what that meant exactly."
  • But in this most serious of human games, victory meant exactly that.
  • I would like to hear from the President what he means exactly by joint action.
  • But he added, "I'm not so sure what that exactly means."
3. definitely mean = z pewnością oznaczaj definitely mean
4. mean precisely = oznaczaj dokładnie mean precisely
(11) alone, solely, exclusively
Kolokacji: 3
(12) normally, commonly
Kolokacji: 2

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