mean square

They want Marvin to be as mean and as lonely and as trashy as the characters he portrays.

Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.

It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.

With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.

My husband detests them; on the contrary, I like those carriages, for they tell me of happy—I mean to say, of former times.