Average
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The arithmetic mean. Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode (see Usage notes below). An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Constituting or relating to the average. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category. Typical. Bad or undesirable.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To compute the arithmetic mean of. Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
Example sentence: Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Mean
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An intermediate step or intermediate steps.The average, the arithmetic mean.Loosely, an intermediate value or range of values; a mid-value; a vague average.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.Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To convey, signify, or indicate.To want or intend to convey.To intend; to plan on doing.To have conviction in what one says.To have intentions of a some kind.To result in; to bring about.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.Miserly; stingy.Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.Low in quality; inferior.Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
Example sentence: Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.