Think vs. Mean — What's the Difference?

To have or formulate in the mind

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 reason about or reflect on; ponder

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

To decide by reasoning, reflection, or pondering

Intend (something) to occur or be the case

To judge or regard; look upon

Have as a consequence or result

To believe; suppose

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

To expect; hope

Unkind, spiteful, or unfair

To intend

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

To call to mind; remember

Very skilful or effective; excellent

To visualize; imagine

(of a quantity) calculated as a mean; average

To devise or evolve; invent

Equally far from two extremes

To bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

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

To concentrate one's thoughts on; keep as a point of focus

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

To exercise the power of reason, as by conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and using judgment

To be used to convey; denote

To consider or weigh an idea

To act as a symbol of; signify or represent

To bring a thought to mind by using the imagination

To intend to convey or indicate

To recall a thought or an image to mind

To have as a purpose or an intention; intend

To have a belief, supposition, or opinion

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

To have care or consideration

To have as a consequence; bring about

To use the mind in a certain way

To have the importance or value of

Requiring much thought to create or assimilate

To have intentions of a specified kind; be disposed

The act or an instance of deliberate or extended thinking; a meditation.

Lacking in kindness; unkind

(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.

Cruel, spiteful, or malicious

(intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.

Expressing spite or malice

(intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).

Tending toward or characterized by cruelty or violence

(transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.

Extremely unpleasant or disagreeable

(transitive) To guess; to reckon.

Ignoble; base

To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).

Occupying a middle or intermediate position between two extremes.

To presume; to venture.

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

To seem, to appear.

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

An act of thinking; consideration (of something).

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

To seem or appear; - used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

The average value of a set of numbers.

To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.

(Logic) The middle term in a syllogism.

To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.

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.

To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.

Money, property, or other wealth

To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.

Great wealth

To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.

To intend.

To presume; to venture.

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

To conceive; to imagine.

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

To plan or design; to plot; to compass.

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

To believe; to consider; to esteem.

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

Act of thinking; a thought.

To convey (a meaning).

An instance of deliberate thinking;

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

Judge or regard; look upon; judge;

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

Expect, believe, or suppose;

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

Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments;

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

Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;

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

Imagine or visualize;

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

Focus one's attention on a certain state;

To lament.

Have in mind as a purpose;

(obsolete) Common; general.

Decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting;

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

Ponder; reflect on, or reason about;

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

Dispose the mind in a certain way;

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

Have or formulate in the mind;

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

Be capable of conscious thought;

Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.

Bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation;

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