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Davidleels Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

a means of

hi,
can "a means of " make sence?
I looked up lots of dictionaries but found nothing!

the context is :
Thus  a label is a means  of  symbolically  referring  to  a  specific
        statement.

thanks in advance
  

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A label is a way to symbolically...

Yes, "a means of" or "a means to" (both sound right to me) means "a way to."
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00Cambridge Dic says "means" is plural, like scissors or pants02br
01i00means02i00 (METHOD) plural noun 02br
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00What is the matter with the leading indefinite article then, as in "a means of"? 02br
00Is it an idiom? But if we can single out one particular "means" of all available, then shouldn't
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01cite10Vanyatka12cite10Hi,12br
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10Cambridge Dic says "means" is plural, like scissors or pants12br
11i10means12i10 (METHOD) plural noun 12br
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00I don't have the least idea what the Cangridge Dictionar
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01cite10Cool Breeze12cite10I don't have the least idea what the Cangridge Dictionary says about 11i10means12i10, but I do know that it's both singular and plural:12br
11i10one means to do it / of doing it12br
10many means to do it / of doing it12br
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10I was wrong about Cambridge Dictionary, in fact all dictionaries give 11i10means12i10as plural noun 15112br
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11b00All02b00 dictionaries? I have no idea how many dictionaries there are. Here is one that gives a singular 01i
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