By using (an object or an approach).

(transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention. / (intransitive) To have as intentions of a given kind.

(Ireland, UK regional) To lament.

(obsolete) Common; general. / Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble. / Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.

Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average. / (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.

(now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result. / (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.

plural of meanness

(archaic, music) The middle voice of a three-voice polyphonic musical composition.

(in combinations) Having a specific type of (mathematical) mean.

(nonstandard or obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of mean