Crossword clues for by no means
by no means
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mean \Mean\, n.
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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. (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.
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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.
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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.
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(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. Meantime; meanwhile. [Obs.]
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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.
Wiktionary
prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) certainly not; definitely not.
WordNet
adv. definitely not; "the prize is by no means certain"; "and that isn't all, not by a long sight" [syn: not by a long sight, not by a blame sight] [ant: by all means]
Usage examples of "by no means".
His professions of benevolence towards the crew, and his explanations of his reasons for her powerful armament had sufficed for others, but they by no means satisfied her.
I have seen men who could with certainty, at this distance, hit a bird the size of a pigeon sitting on the top of that target, twenty times in succession, and think it by no means extraordinary shooting.
Rose Moody is a fifteen-year-old child: a normal, happy, but by no means unusual teenager, she has her moments with her parents like they all do.
Among the lower classes wife and woman beating is by no means uncommon, nor is such an assault regarded with much more reprobation than an attack upon a man.
In fact, this pain is so very terrible that it causes me to leap up and down like a bullfrog, and to let out loud cries of agony, and to speak some very profane language, which is by no means my custom, although of course I recognize the pain as coming from a hot foot, because I often experience this pain before.
This Frankie Ferocious comes from over in Brooklyn, where he is considered a rising citizen in many respects, and by no means a guy to give hot foots to, especially as Frankie Ferocious has no sense of humor whatever.
Pierre and become friends with them, and they are by no means bad people to know, and it is certainly nice to be able to walk up and down without being afraid every other guy you meet is going to chuck a slug at you, or a copper put the old sleeve on you and say that they wish to see you at headquarters.
Tobias Tweeney starts crying again, and I feel very sorry for him indeed, because I can see he is a friendly, harmless little fellow, and by no means accustomed to being tossed around by a doll, and a guy who is not accustomed to being tossed around by a doll always finds it most painful the first time.
Gingham Shop over in Forty-seventh Street, and how Charley is not going so good the last time I am in there, and here is maybe a chance for me to steer a little trade his way, because, after all, guys with two yards in their pocket are by no means common nowadays.
Tobias is arraigned on a charge of violation of the Sullivan law, which is a law against carrying rods, and the courtroom is packed with citizens eager to see a character desperate enough to lug twelve rods, and among these citizens are many dolls, pulling and hauling for position, and some of these dolls are by no means crows.