"mean to say" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "means to say",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meaning to say",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meant to say",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meant to say",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mean<,,meant> to say"
      },
      "expansion": "mean to say (third-person singular simple present means to say, present participle meaning to say, simple past and past participle meant to say)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility",
          "text": "\"[…] It is a match that must give universal satisfaction. In short, it is a kind of thing that\" — lowering his voice to an important whisper — \"will be exceedingly welcome to all parties.\" Recollecting himself, however, he added, \"That is, I mean to say—your friends are all truly anxious to see you well settled; Fanny particularly […]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, H. H. Munro, “Hyacinth”, in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers",
          "text": "\"You wicked boy, do you mean to say you've left those poor children there alone in the pigstye?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To imply or intend to convey with one's words; used to correct or clarify one's previous utterance, or to seek such clarification."
      ],
      "id": "en-mean_to_say-en-verb-8hubSjDV",
      "links": [
        [
          "imply",
          "imply"
        ],
        [
          "intend",
          "intend"
        ],
        [
          "convey",
          "convey"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mean to say"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "means to say",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meaning to say",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meant to say",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meant to say",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mean<,,meant> to say"
      },
      "expansion": "mean to say (third-person singular simple present means to say, present participle meaning to say, simple past and past participle meant to say)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility",
          "text": "\"[…] It is a match that must give universal satisfaction. In short, it is a kind of thing that\" — lowering his voice to an important whisper — \"will be exceedingly welcome to all parties.\" Recollecting himself, however, he added, \"That is, I mean to say—your friends are all truly anxious to see you well settled; Fanny particularly […]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, H. H. Munro, “Hyacinth”, in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers",
          "text": "\"You wicked boy, do you mean to say you've left those poor children there alone in the pigstye?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To imply or intend to convey with one's words; used to correct or clarify one's previous utterance, or to seek such clarification."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "imply",
          "imply"
        ],
        [
          "intend",
          "intend"
        ],
        [
          "convey",
          "convey"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mean to say"
}