by means of

English

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Preposition

by means of

1. By using (an object or an approach).
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."

   • 1951 June, “Notes and News: The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 423:

     Some stone was being loaded into standard gauge wagons by means of a portable conveyor belt.

Synonyms

• (by using): by dint of
• via
• Thesaurus:by means of

Translations

by using — see also as a result of,‎ by dint of,‎ through,‎ via

Arabic: بِوَاسِطَة (bi-wāsiṭa) Egyptian Arabic: باستخدام (besteḵdām) Azerbaijani: vasitəsilə Bengali: করে (bn) (kore) Catalan: mitjançant (ca), per mitjà de (ca), a força de (ca) Cherokee: ᎬᏗ (gvdi) Chinese: Cantonese: 用 (jung6) Mandarin: 用 (zh) (yòng), 以 (zh) (yǐ), 依靠 (zh) (yīkào), 藉著 / 借著 (zh) (jièzhe), 借着 (jièzhe) Czech: pomocí (cs), prostřednictvím (cs) Dutch: aan de hand van (nl), door middel van Esperanto: per (eo), pere de Finnish: avulla (fi) French: au moyen de (fr) Galician: por medio de (gl) German: mittels (de), mittelst (de), vermittels (de) Hungarian: segítségével (hu), révén (hu), útján (hu) Italian: per opera di, per mezzo di (it), a cura di, tramite (it), mediante (it) Japanese: で (ja) (de) Khmer: ដោយ (km) (daoy), តាមមធ្យោបាយ (taam matyoobaay), តាមរយៈ (taam rea’yea’) Korean: -로 (-ro), -으로 (-euro) Lao: ທາງ (thāng) Latin: per (la) (+ accusative), ab (la) (+ ablative) Navajo: yee Polish: przy pomocy (pl), za pomocą (pl), przy użyciu (pl), za pośrednictwem (pl) Portuguese: por meio de (pt) Russian: при по́мощи (ru) (pri pómošči), посре́дством (ru) (posrédstvom) Spanish: por medio de, por intermedio de, por mediación de Swedish: genom (sv), medelst (sv) Telugu: గుండా (te) (guṇḍā) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: aracılığıyla (tr), vasıtasıyla (tr) Ukrainian: за допомо́гою (za dopomóhoju), за посере́дництвом (za poserédnyctvom) Vietnamese: bằng (vi) Volapük: medü (vo) Welsh: trwy, trwy gyfrwng