What is the meaning of MEANS. Phrases containing MEANS
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Acronyms & AI meanings
Knock Detection Module
Activity-Based Risk Evaluation Model of Auditing
Conduction and Survival
Catholic School Tuition Assistance
Junior Under-Officer
Pass Through Price
Underground Zion
inertially confined fusion
National Center for Microgravity
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Control
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v. t.
To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
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An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.
v. t. & i.
To convey by means of a vehicle; to ride in a vehicle.
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To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
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One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
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That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.
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Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.
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That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.
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A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
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A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
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The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
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One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
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Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon.
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Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means.
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A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
v. i.
To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
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Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
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An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
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Examination of the urethra by means of the urethroscope.
v. t.
To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.
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