COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
meant no disrespect
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It was said on the spur of the moment and I meant no disrespect to anybody.
meant nothing (= was not important )
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Politics meant nothing to me for years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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This robbed us of our president and also meant that Mr Adshead was unable to talk to us.
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It also meant , Fukuyama indicated, the end of large-scale war.
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The greater abundance of iron ores over those of copper also meant that iron was more readily obtainable and cheaper.
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Thursdays are also meant for mending and darning.
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The presence of all these species also meant that I had a good chance of spotting the birds that preyed on them.
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To manipulate the level of production also meant that the role of government must be enlarged.
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It also meant that the boys could see in and witness the general untidiness of his tiny room.
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However, this also meant that a very small obstacle could deflect the bullet in flight.
never
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In any case, assimilation never meant any real acceptance or belonging.
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Everyone agrees the road was never meant to handle this kind of traffic.
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Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be.
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To this end, he had taught his deputies that keeping their guns cleaned and oiled meant never having to use them.
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Of course, he never meant them to be used like this.
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But Rufus admitted to himself that the beauties of nature and architecture had never meant much to him.
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He never meant any harm to anyone.
only
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She had only meant to defend herself, but it had come out all wrong.
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The boy later told detectives he meant only to scare her.
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It had only meant one more day of privacy.
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The ones we have included are meant only to dramatize the similarities between these two fields of experience.
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Perhaps she only meant she didn't want to give him her cold.
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That meant only one thing: he had to go through with it.
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To Manville it meant only one thing.
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Everything was dictated by Moscow, and that meant only the Leninist viewpoint.
really
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Perhaps what he really meant was that they couldn't afford not to go to Nunes.
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I asked you to consider it, but what I really meant was, will you do it?
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Maybe the ghost is where I am really meant to be.
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It dawned on me I really meant something to you, you know.
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I was still thinking about that, wondering what it really meant .
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When they hugged at the end of virtually every episode, they really meant it.
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I really meant to get in touch with you again after Paris, but somehow I felt I'd blown it.
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For him, being above politics really meant being above the mob.
■ NOUN
word
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She couldn't actually sing I suppose, but when she sang, she meant every word .
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Yet his serious manner at the very end of our conversation suggested he meant every single word he had just said.
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She had said she would dance on their graves, and she meant it, meant every word she said.
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I think he meant every word of what he wrote.
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Miss Pickerstaff might have been out of sorts, but she meant every word she said.
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Her voice was sincere, but in her heart she meant every word she said.
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She had meant every word of it.
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When I called you a pompous, self-opinionated bully I meant every word !
■ VERB
know
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Polly knew what the woman meant immediately.
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I know you meant that seriously.
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Offered to allow them a kind of autonomy, Coffin knew it had been meant originally as a Traffic Inquiry Unit.
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And the minute she said it, she knew exactly what he meant .
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And Anne had known she meant it.
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But I knew what he meant .
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She knew exactly what he meant , could recall in graphic detail the event to which he was referring.
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I did not quite know what they meant but I took it as a compliment.
think
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But I thought you meant Satan, people usually do.
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Does it still mean what you thought it meant when you were living it?
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I thought he meant to continue, so I waited.
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It got me out of clearing tables for a living, but I thought it meant more than that.
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I was angry because she portrays herself as a wives' attorney and I thought that meant issues.
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I don't think Andy ever meant to do anything with this place.
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Polly could not begin to think what he meant .
understand
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In this respect it is very important to understand just what he meant by exchange.
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Wistfully, William Wordsworth wrote: en and everyone understood what the poet meant .
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I didn't understand what she meant about sometimes you owe more to strangers, but I do now.
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He understood what it meant to the living left behind.
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President Clinton understood what this meant for developing countries yet did nothing about it.
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Before the managers could begin to understand what providing leadership meant , they had to grasp these fundamental ideas.
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But very soon he got used to these things and learnt to understand what they meant .
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She said she understood what it meant to disappear into another country.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be meant for sb
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From the moment that they were introduced it was plain that they were meant for one another.
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His friend got bitten by a snake that was meant for Ray.
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Innocent's building at the Vatican was fortified with towers and an encircling wall and was meant for longer residence.
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Like illusionistic painting in general, this technique of mosaic was meant for the distant view.
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Nina got up and smiled a smile that was meant for no-one.
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The only fan in Motherhouse is in the parlour and is meant for visitors.
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Then this ad is meant for you.
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Wisteria branches, for example, eventually grow to tree-size width and are meant for the sturdiest pergolas and arbors.
be meant for sb/sth
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I think this fork is meant for barbecuing.
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From the moment that they were introduced it was plain that they were meant for one another.
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His friend got bitten by a snake that was meant for Ray.
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Innocent's building at the Vatican was fortified with towers and an encircling wall and was meant for longer residence.
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Like illusionistic painting in general, this technique of mosaic was meant for the distant view.
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Nina got up and smiled a smile that was meant for no-one.
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The only fan in Motherhouse is in the parlour and is meant for visitors.
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Then this ad is meant for you.
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Wisteria branches, for example, eventually grow to tree-size width and are meant for the sturdiest pergolas and arbors.
be meant to be good/excellent/bad etc
be meant to do sth
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Christmas time is meant to bring people together.
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Jenny is convinced she was meant to stay with Zev.
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By the time it was finished, the workings had gone lower than the levels it was meant to drain.
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Designed by Robert Von Hagge, it was meant to be hard.
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Like it was meant to look an accident.
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The new program is meant to put young people in the retail and hospitality industries on a fast-track to management careers.
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The party was meant to have been a thank-you to the casino staff from the management.
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The suit is meant to head off a legal attack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works.
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They are gifts fit for a king, and so they are meant to be.
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This is the way movie comedies were meant to be: one laugh rolling in just as the last one rolls out.
sb was never meant for sth/to be sth
sth was meant to be/happen
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Designed by Robert Von Hagge, it was meant to be hard.
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Imprinted with cell bars, the first Tricky Envelope was meant to be festooned with the Richard Nixon stamp.
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It was meant to be some kind of joke.
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Our protest was meant to be purely symbolic.
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Perhaps it's because none of this was meant to happen.
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She was meant to be illustrating a new book for children, a fantasy story by a well-known author.
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Technically he was meant to be in bed.
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The fit crew was meant to be Merrill Lynch.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But a combination of international change and policy alteration has meant that, on some issues, the Tories changed too.
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But the comprehension of what that actually meant was slim.
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For now, that meant keeping the case uppermost in his thoughts.
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It meant the freedom to talk freely, discuss matters which could not be voiced within four walls.
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That too often meant that jobs went abroad to places with very low wages and dire standards of living.
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The bird made frantic gobbling or clucking noises, which meant it knew what it was in for.
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The controversy over Croagh Patrick meant that islanders were aware of the problems with gold mining already.
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This meant that I walked further than recorded.