simple past tense and past participle of mean

Destined to exist.

(philosophy) The state or quality of being meant or intended.

(idiomatic) supposed to, obliged to, ought to

Having good intentions, even if resulting in unfortunate consequences.

simple past tense and past participle of mean business

The time spent waiting for another event; time in between.

during the interval; meanwhile

meanwhile

(music) A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of tempered perfect fifths and, by choosing an appropriate size for major and minor thirds, tempers the syntonic comma to unison.