If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process. This is a two year course taught by means of lectures and seminars. The trailer was connected to the car by means of a complicated system of hoses, pipes and rods.
What does it mean to be a means to something?
To have the intention, desire, or obligation to do something.
What is the meaning of the idiom by means of?
by means of (something) Due to something. I only wake up in time for work by means of an alarm clock. I was able to get an A in my math class this semester by means of hard work. See also: by, mean, of. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
What does it mean to have the means?
2 money [plural] the money or income that you havehave the means to do something I don't have the means to support a family. Paying for your children to go to a private school is beyond the means of most people (=too expensive for most people).
Do you say by means of or as means of?
1 Answer. Show activity on this post. You always use means, which can be either singular ("a means of identification") or plural ("several means of identification"). The noun mean is a separate word, though it is related, and though its plural is also means (as in "the arithmetic and geometric means").
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