different between intervention vs means

English

Etymology

From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventi?

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?nt??v?n??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nt??v?n??n/
• Rhymes: -?n??n
• Hyphenation: in?ter?ven?tion

Noun

intervention (countable and uncountable, plural interventions)

1. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
2. (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
3. An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
4. (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• introvenient

Danish

Etymology

From Latin interventi?, from interveni? (“I intervene, come between”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ent?rv?nsjo?n/, [ent??v?n??o??n]

Noun

intervention c (singular definite interventionen, plural indefinite interventioner)

1. (law) intervention

   Synonyms: indblanding, indgriben

Inflection

Finnish

Noun

intervention

1. Genitive singular form of interventio.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interventi?, interventi?nem.

Pronunciation

Noun

intervention f (plural interventions)

1. intervention

Further reading

• “intervention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

intervention (plural interventiones)

1. intervention

Swedish

Noun

intervention c

1. (law) intervention

   Synonyms: ingripande, inblandning

Declension

English

Etymology

See mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?nz/
• Rhymes: -i?nz

Noun

means

1. plural of mean

means (plural means)

1. An instrument or condition for attaining a purpose.

   A car is a means of transport.

means pl (plural only) (uncountable)

1. Resources; riches.

   He was living beyond his means.

Usage notes

Frequently contrasted with end (“goal”), as in “a means to an end”. Similar contrast is process vs. product.

Synonyms

• wherewithal

Translations

Verb

means

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mean

Anagrams

• Mensa, Seman, amens, manes, manse, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of me? (“go along, traverse”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?me.ans/, [?meä??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?me.ans/, [?m???ns]

Participle

me?ns (genitive meantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. going along, passing, traversing

Declension

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.