What is "by any means"

Mean \Mean\, n.

1. That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.

   But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
   --Bacon.

   There is a mean in all things.
   --Dryden.

   The extremes we have mentioned, between which the wellinstracted Christian holds the mean, are correlatives.
   --I. Taylor.

2. (Math.) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the nth root of the product of the n quantities being averaged.

3. That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument.

   Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ.
   --Hooker.

   You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements.
   --Coleridge.

   Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean.
   --Sir W. Hamilton.

   Note: In this sense the word is usually employed in the plural form means, and often with a singular attribute or predicate, as if a singular noun.

   By this means he had them more at vantage.
   --Bacon.

   What other means is left unto us.
   --Shak.

4. pl. Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance.

   Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
   --Shak.

5. (Mus.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part. [Obs.]

   The mean is drowned with your unruly base.
   --Shak.

6. Meantime; meanwhile. [Obs.]
   --Spenser.

7. A mediator; a go-between. [Obs.]
   --Piers Plowman.

   He wooeth her by means and by brokage.
   --Chaucer.

   By all means, certainly; without fail; as, go, by all means.

   By any means, in any way; possibly; at all.

   If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.
   --Phil. iii. ll.

   By no means, or By no manner of means, not at all; certainly not; not in any degree.

   The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other.
   --Addison.

adv. (context idiomatic English) in any manner whatsoever.

adv. in any way necessary; "I'll pass this course by hook or by crook" [syn: by hook or by crook]

By Any Means, also known as Ireland to Sydney by Any Means, is a television series following Long Way Round and Long Way Down star Charley Boorman. Travelling from Wicklow, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, it features him completing the journey using 112 modes of transport and only travelling by plane when absolutely necessary.

By Any Means may refer to:

• By Any Means (2008 TV series), a BBC documentary television series
• By Any Means (2013 TV series), a BBC crime television series
• Right to the Edge: Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means also known as By Any Means 2, a 2009 adventure series
• By Any Means (2014 Kevin Gates Album), Kevin Gates rapper album.

By Any Means is a British television drama series that premiered on BBC One on 22 September 2013. In January 2014 actor Warren Brown announced via Twitter that the show had not been recommissioned for a new series.

By Any Means is a mixtape by American rapper Kevin Gates. It was released on March 17, 2014, by his Breadwinners Association label, distributed by Atlantic Records. The mixtape debuted at number 17 on the Billboard 200, selling 17,000 copies in the United States. On DatPiff, this mixtape downloaded over 392,347 times, as of February 2, 2015.