Convey vs. Mean — What's the Difference?

To take or carry from one place to another; transport.

There are several kinds of mean in mathematics, especially in statistics: For a data set, the arithmetic mean, also known as average or arithmetic average, is a central value of a finite set of numbers: specifically, the sum of the values divided by the number of values. The arithmetic mean of a set of numbers x1, x2, ..., xn is typically denoted by x ¯ {\displaystyle {\bar {x}}} .

To serve as a medium of transmission for; transmit

Intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify

To communicate or make known; impart

Intend (something) to occur or be the case

(Law) To transfer ownership of or title to.

Have as a consequence or result

(Archaic) To steal.

Unwilling to give or share things, especially money; not generous

To move (something) from one place to another.

Unkind, spiteful, or unfair

(dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.

(especially of a place) poor in quality and appearance; shabby

To communicate; to make known; to portray.

Very skilful or effective; excellent

(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).

(of a quantity) calculated as a mean; average

(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.

Equally far from two extremes

(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

The value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

A condition, quality, or course of action equally removed from two opposite extremes

To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

To be used to convey; denote

To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.

To act as a symbol of; signify or represent

To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.

To intend to convey or indicate

To manage with privacy; to carry out.

To have as a purpose or an intention; intend

To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

To design, intend, or destine for a certain purpose or end

To accompany; to convoy.

To have as a consequence; bring about

To play the thief; to steal.

To have the importance or value of

Make known; pass on, of information

To have intentions of a specified kind; be disposed

Serve as a means for expressing something;

Lacking in kindness; unkind

Transfer to another;

Cruel, spiteful, or malicious

Transmit a title or property

Expressing spite or malice

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;

Tending toward or characterized by cruelty or violence

Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere;

Extremely unpleasant or disagreeable

Go or come after and bring or take back;

Ignoble; base

Occupying a middle or intermediate position between two extremes.

Intermediate in size, extent, quality, time, or degree; medium.

Something having a position, quality, or condition midway between extremes; a medium.

A number that typifies a set of numbers, such as a geometric mean or an arithmetic mean.

The average value of a set of numbers.

(Logic) The middle term in a syllogism.

Means (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A method, a course of action, or an instrument by which an act can be accomplished or an end achieved.

Money, property, or other wealth

Great wealth

To intend.

(transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.

(intransitive) To have as intentions of a given kind.

To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine.

(transitive) To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.[https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/i_mean%20I%20mean]

To convey (a meaning).

(transitive) To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea).

(transitive) Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify.

(transitive) Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.

(transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).

(transitive) To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).

(usually with to) To be of some level of importance.

To lament.

(obsolete) Common; general.

Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.

Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.

Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.

Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.

Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.

Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.

Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.

Powerful; fierce; strong.

(colloquial) Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.

Difficult, tricky.

Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.

(obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.

A method or course of action used to achieve some result.

An intermediate step or intermediate steps.

Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.

The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.

(statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean.

(mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.

(mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.

To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do?

To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.

To have a purpose or intention.

Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble.

Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.

Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.

Of poor quality; as, mean fare.

Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.

Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.

Intermediate in excellence of any kind.

Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.

Meantime; meanwhile.

A mediator; a go-between.

An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

Mean or intend to express or convey;

Have as a logical consequence;

Denote or connote;

Have in mind as a purpose;

Have a specified degree of importance;

Intend to refer to;

Destine or designate for a certain purpose;

Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value;

Characterized by malice;

Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;

Excellent;

Marked by poverty befitting a beggar;

Used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity;

Used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt