| 释义 |
Intend to, as in I meant to go running this morning but got up too late, or I'm sorry I broke it—I didn't mean to. This idiom was first recorded in 1560. Words nearby mean tomean square deviation, means test, mean sun, meant, meantime, mean to, meantone system, mean-tone tuning, mean value, mean value theorem, meanwhile The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |