Means

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A general term for the ‘equipment’—firearm, drugs, poison, rope, car and exhaust pipe or cooking gas—that a person with suicidal ideation plans to use for suicide completion

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There is no more reason why a person who uses a word correctly should be able to tell what it means than there is why a planet which is moving correctly should know Kepler's laws.

(4) When the word is being first learnt, you may associate it with an object, which is what it "means," or a representative of various objects that it "means."

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'I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' Alice said.

'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice objected.

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Well, there is another question: By friends and enemies do we mean those who are so really, or only in seeming?

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Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

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(I don't know what wollen haben werden sollen sein ha"tte means, but I notice they always put it at the end of a German sentence--merely for general literary gorgeousness, I suppose.)

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And what do you mean? How can a man's inside "front" in any direction?

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"I mean," said the captain, "Partridge the barber, the schoolmaster, what do you call him?

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I say what I mean. I never go out after dark, but I find myself in the ludicrous situation of being followed and observed at a distance, always by one scout, and often by two.'

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"And yet," said John, "I am sure the young ladies did not mean it; it was only ignorance."