Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete preterit of
mean - An obsolete preterit of
ming . - A common suffix of Latin origin, forming, from verbs, nouns which usually denote the results of an act or the act itself, as in aliment, fragment, segment, commandment, document, monument, government, etc.
- A variant of
mint .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
menge .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
meng . - verb Obsolete spelling of
meant .
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Examples
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Well good, guv'ment, especially Obama's guv'ment is NOT the answer.
Democratic senator: Public health insurance option dead 2009
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#33-Rachel. .what I ment is that you probably didnt know his name, when you first saw him cast as edward you probbly said oh hey look its (whoever he played) from Harry Potter … and I also never read the HP books, well actually I read the first one and thought it was dumb so I stopped. .but anyways my point was you didnt know his name only his face
Twilight Lexicon » Official News from Summit and Stephenie Meyer 2008
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And maybe this experiment is a window into OCD: Imagine that every possible error, no matter how small, felt like it would be costly.
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This local activity drains commitment from the wider global process.
The Fruitful Lie 2006
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I agree that the orchestral music comment is great.
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What i ment is that everything that is done is geared towards “blowing up the company” and trying to sell it.
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The same treat — ment is much called for by certain heroines of modern fiction — let me mention Princess Napraxine.
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This local activity drains commitment from the wider global process.
The Fruitful Lie 2006
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I hate Gantt charts, and the notations of orchestral music comment is fantastic.
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Govern ment is investing more time n money for this also.
gulyasrobi commented on the word ment
"ment" in Hungarian means: went
August 7, 2012