MEANS Synonyms

• equipment designed to serve a specific function

• (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function

• a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

• durable goods for home or office use

• ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

• the act of drawing spatially closer to something

• a way of entering or leaving

• the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing

• the event of one object coming closer to another

• a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others

• the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

• a close approximation

• a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green

• move towards

• come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character

• begin to deal with

• come near in time

• make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion

• a line of approach

• a wide street or thoroughfare

• a path over which electrical signals can pass

• a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through

• a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

• a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels

• (often plural) a means of communication or access

• a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

• a television station and its programs

• a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors

• transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

• direct the flow of

• send from one person or place to another

• an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose

• something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect

• any clever maneuver

• any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)

• an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)

• serving to promote your interest

• a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one

• appropriate to a purpose; practical

• a helpful partner

• a device that requires skill for proper use

• the means whereby some act is accomplished

• a person used by another to gain an end

• (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right

• the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process

• any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds

• equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling

• write an instrumental score for

• address a legal document to

• a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose

• the quality of being instrumental for some purpose

• an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end

• how something is done or how it happens

• a way of acting or behaving

• a kind

• the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction

• the technical aspects of doing something

• a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes

• device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function

• a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information

• the surrounding environment

• an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication

• (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms

• a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter

• (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed

• an intervening substance through which something is achieved

• a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position

• someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead

• (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public

• an occupation for which you are especially well suited

• around the middle of a scale of evaluation

• (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside

• a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

• an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed

• how something is done or how it happens

• a particular functioning condition or arrangement

• a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

• verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

• any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

• the most frequent value of a random variable

• a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

• a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work

• a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

• a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

• a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

• (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents

• a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

• a mental process that you are not directly aware of

• a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant

• a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states

• subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition

• march in a procession

• deal with in a routine way

• perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• shape, form, or improve a material

• deliver a warrant or summons to someone

• available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed

• a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed

• the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

• an elaborate and systematic plan of action

• the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war