służyć do po angielsku:

He meant something else.

If a player hit the tree with the ball, it meant that the crops would grow successfully.

This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'

I know you think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realized that what you heard is not what I meant.

Fortunately, everybody understood what this foreigner meant, knew I was only making a fool of myself, and laughed at me.

The joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side is an example of "anti-humor": meant to be funny because, on the surface, it is not.

At Ken's school this meant competing to be most ironic and cynical.

if something was meant to happen or meant to be a particular thing, it happened or it was that thing on purpose and not by accident

I find it amazing that in the Slavic languages the word “sweet” originally meant “salty”!

For the residents of Edo, the first bonito of the year was something that had to be bought, even if it meant borrowing money.

Football originally meant "a game played with a ball on foot" - unlike a game played on horseback, such as polo.

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: — surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.