MEANS

verb

1. To lament.

verb

1. To intend.
2. To convey (a meaning).
3. To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).

noun

1. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
2. (in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
3. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.