Means has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Tom's school canteen has green, orange and red stickers on the food and drink on sale. Green means healthy, orange means consume in moderation, red means avoid or consume rarely. | |
| 2. | "Vaya" means "wow," "baya" means "berry," and "valla" means "fence." | |
| 3. | "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is quite a long word, isn't it?" "Yes, but do you know what it means?" "Actually, I don't." "It means fear of long words." "How ironic." | |
| 4. | A curious German word is "entfernen" (to put some distance between), because the prefix "ent-" means to take something away, in this case the distance, but taking away the distance would mean to bring it closer which is the exact opposite of what the word "entfernen" means. | |
| 5. | For example in Bulgaria, shaking one's head means yes while nodding one's head means no. | |
| 6. | The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages are not so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, but a means of discovering truth that was previously unknown. Their diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world. | |
| 7. | A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. | |
| 8. | "Except" means to leave out something while "accept" means to receive something. | |
| 9. | Kant, in his book "Perpetual Peace", offers a very practical means of establishing means of perpetual peace between nations. | |
| 10. | The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. |