means (n.)
- action
- algorithm
- answer
- apparatus
- approach
- artifice
- assets
- attack
- balance
- budget
- capital
- capitalization
- circumstances
- contraption
- contrivance
- countermove
- coup
- course
- demarche
- device
- dodge
- effort
- exchequer
- expedient
- fashion
- finances
- form
- fund
- funds
- gadget
- gimcrack
- gimmick
- gizmo
- grist
- guise
- holdings
- implement
- improvisation
- instrument
- kitty
- line
- makeshift
- maneuver
- manner
- measure
- method
- methodology
- mode
- move
- order
- pool
- practice
- procedure
- proceeding
- process
- property
- purse
- reserves
- resort
- resource
- resources
- routine
- savings
- shake-up
- shift
- solution
- step
- stock
- stock-in-trade
- stopgap
- stratagem
- stroke
- style
- substance
- supply
- system
- tack
- tactic
- technique
- tone
- tool
- treasure
- trick
- trump
- utensil
- way
- wealth
- wherewithal
- wise
means (adv.)
With all appliances and means to boot.
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
The end must justify the means.
Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.
When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits
If any man obtains that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.
. . . . . . .
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends!
Hath he not always treasures, always friends,
The good great man? Three treasures,—love and light,
And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath;
And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,—
Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
And out of good still to find means of evil.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up
Thine own life's means!
This morning, like the spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Make deeds ill done!
Gon. Here is everything advantageous to life.
Ant. True; save means to live.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things,—God.
You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.
