middle, centre
→
means
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
-
Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | mean | |
| lexeme 2 | means | |
| meaning 1 | middle, centre | arithmetic mean |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | means | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | moyen | |
| meaning 1 | middle | de moyenne taille medium
height |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | means | il a essayé tous les moyens he
tried every means |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme 1 | Mittel- | |
| lexeme 2 | Mittel | |
| meaning 1 | middle | Mittelhochdeutsch medium-high German |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | means | ein sicheres Mittel reliable means |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Modern Greek | |
| lexeme | μέσο | |
| meaning 1 | middle | Προχωρήστε προς το μέσο του λεωφορείου! Move to the middle part of the bus! |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | means | μέσο παραγωγής means of production |
| reference | DSMG | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | средний | |
| lexeme 2 | средство | |
| meaning 1 | middle | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | means | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | medio | |
| meaning 1 | middle | Alemania está en medio de Europa. Germany is in the middle of Europe. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (in the plural) means | El fin justifica los medios. Por todos los medios. The end justifies the means. By any means. |
| reference | DRAE | |
| comment | ||