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