mean
verb (used with object)
to have in mind as one's purpose or intention.
were meaning
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past progressiveof mean.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Spiders painted all white or all black were less attractive to insects than unpainted spiders or ones painted the same color they already were, meaning that looking like bird droppings was key to the deception.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
That proved true regardless of how much a family earned or how educated the parents were, meaning low-income children can possess the same verbal abilities as their more well-off peers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2018
Moreover, insists a Pentagon official, "we knew where all their planes were," meaning that they could have been destroyed on the ground if that had been deemed necessary.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the schoolhouse fellows, little as they expected to win, were meaning to make a hot fight of it.
From The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed
Now you are to do exactly what you were meaning to do when you didn't know we were coming with you.
From The Taming of Red Butte Western by Francis Lynde
