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12 definitions foundFrom The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), noun; pl. {Men} (m[e^]n). [AS. mann, man, monn, mon; akin to OS., D., & OHG. man, G. mann, Icel. ma[eth]r, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth. manna, Skr. manu, manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind. [root]104. Cf. {Minx} a pert girl.]
1. A human being; -- opposed to {beast}.
These men went about wide, and man found they none, But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. --R. of Glouc.
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me. --Shak.
'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast! --W. C. Fields [PJC]
2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I Cor. xiii. 11.
Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.
3. The human race; mankind.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i. 26.
The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope.
4. The male portion of the human race.
Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.
5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. --Shak.
This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world ''This was a man!'' --Shak.
6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
Like master, like man. --Old Proverb.
The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor. --Blackstone.
7. A term of familiar address at one time implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! In the latter half of the 20th century it became used in a broader sense as simply a familiar and informal form of address, but is not used in business or formal situations; as, hey, man! You want to go to a movie tonight?. [Informal] [1913 Webster +PJC]
8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of Com. Prayer.
every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.
9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
A man can not make him laugh. --Shak.
A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship. --Addison.
10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater, man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating, manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped, manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman, fireman, repairman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man (as distinguished from woodman).
{Man ape} (Zo["o]l.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.
{Man at arms}, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier fully armed.
{Man engine}, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances; specifically (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages.
{Man Friday}, a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.
{Man of straw}, a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.
{Man-of-the earth} (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipom[oe]a pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous root.
{Man of sin} (Script.), one who is the embodiment of evil, whose coming is represented (--2 Thess. ii. 3) as preceding the second coming of Christ. [A Hebraistic expression]
{Man of war}. (a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak. (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary. (c) See {Portuguese man-of-war} under {man-of-war} and also see {Physalia}.
{Man-stopping bullet} (Mil.), a bullet which will produce a sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge; specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand when striking the human body, producing a severe wound which is also difficult to treat medically. Types of bullets called {hollow-nosed bullets}, {soft-nosed bullets} and {hollow-point bullets} are classed as man-stopping. The {dumdum bullet} or {dumdum} is another well-known variety. Such bullets were originally designed for wars with savage tribes.
{To be one's own man}, to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Manned} (m[a^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Manning}.]
1. To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
See how the surly Warwick mans the wall ! --Shak.
They man their boats, and all their young men arm. --Waller.
2. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify. ''Theodosius having manned his soul with proper reflections.'' --Addison.
3. To tame, as a hawk. [R.] --Shak.
4. To furnish with a servant or servants. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. To wait on as a manservant. [Obs.] --Shak.
Note: In ''Othello,'' V. ii. 270, the meaning is uncertain, being, perhaps: To point, to aim, or to manage.
{To man a yard} (Naut.), to send men upon a yard, as for furling or reefing a sail.
{To man the yards} (Naut.), to station men on the yards as a salute or mark of respect.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
man
noun
1: an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: {adult male}] [ant: {woman}]
2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn: {serviceman}, {military man}, {military personnel}] [ant: {civilian}]
3: the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"
4: all of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used 'humankind' because 'mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: {world}, {human race}, {humanity}, {humankind}, {human beings}, {humans}, {mankind}]
5: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae [syn: {homo}, {human being}, {human}]
6: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
7: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
8: a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man" [ant: {woman}]
9: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: {valet}, {valet de chambre}, {gentleman}, {gentleman's gentleman}]
10: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: {Isle of Man}]
11: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" [syn: {piece}]
verb
1: take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
2: provide with men; "We cannot man all the desks" [also: {manning}, {manned}, {men} (pl)]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
306 Moby Thesaurus words for "man": Achilles, Adam, Adamite, Australanthropus, Australopithecus, Barbary ape, Casanova, Chiroptera, Cro-Magnon man, David, Don Juan, Galley Hill man, Gigantopithecus, Grimaldi man, Hector, Heidelberg man, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, John Law, Lagomorpha, Lothario, Neanderthal man, Oreopithecus, Paranthropus, Peking man, Pithecanthropus, Plesianthropus, Primates, Rhodesian man, Rodentia, Roland, Romeo, Samson, Sinanthropus, Stone Age man, Swanscombe man, Zinjanthropus, a man, accouter, adherent, adult, amoroso, angwantibo, anthropoid ape, ape, appendage, appoint, arm, armor, armor-plate, aye-aye, baboon, bank, barricade, battle, beau, being, benedict, bishop, blockade, bloke, bluecoat, body, boy, boyfriend, brave, buck, bull, bulldog, bulwark, butler, caballero, capuchin, castellate, castle, cat, cavalier, cavaliere servente, caveman, chacma, chap, character, chauffeur, chessman, chimpanzee, chutzpanik, clay, coachman, cop, cover, creature, crenellate, crew, cuss, customer, dangler, decorated hero, demigod, demigoddess, dependent, dig in, disciple, dress, drill, driver, duck, dummy, earthling, embattle, entellus, entrench, eolithic man, equerry, equip, esquire, fallen humanity, fancy man, fellow, fence, fighting cock, figurehead, fit, fit out, fit up, flame, flatfoot, flesh, flunky, follower, fortify, furnish, fuzz, gallant, galoot, gamecock, gardener, garrison, gear, gee, geezer, generation of man, gent, gentleman, genus Homo, gibbon, gigolo, gillie, good soldier, goodman, goody, goon, gorilla, groundling, grown man, grownup, guenon, guereza, guy, hand, hanger-on, hanuman, he, head, heat, heel, heeler, henchman, hero, heroine, him, his, hombre, hominid, homme, homo, houseboy, houseman, hubby, human, human being, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, husband, inamorato, individual, jackal, joker, king, knight, lackey, lady-killer, langur, le genre humain, legalis homo, lemur, life, lion, living soul, lord, lord-in-waiting, love-maker, macaque, major, male, male being, male person, male sex, man of courage, man the garrison, mandrill, manhood, mankind, manservant, marmoset, married man, masculine, master, mature man, men, menfolk, menfolks, mine, minion, mister, mortal, mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, mountain gorilla, munition, myrmidon, necker, neolithic man, no chicken, nose, officer, old man, one, orang, orangutan, outfit, paladin, palisade, paramour, party, pawn, people, person, personage, personality, petter, philanderer, piece, pig, prepare, proboscis monkey, puppet, queen, race of man, retainer, rhesus, rig, rig out, rig up, rook, saki, satellite, seducer, servant, shadow, sheik, single, skate, snap, somebody, someone, soul, squire, staff, stalwart, stooge, sugar daddy, swain, sword side, sycophant, tagtail, tellurian, terran, the brave, thug, tiger, turn out, valet, valet de chambre, valiant, valiant knight, votary, wall, ward heeler, woman, worldling, young man
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "Man": American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
MAN {Metropolitan Area Network}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
man {Unix manual page}
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
MAN, noun An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earh and Canada.
When the world was young and Man was new, And everything was pleasant, Distinctions Nature never drew 'Mongst kings and priest and peasant. We're not that way at present, Save here in this Republic, where We have that old regime, For all are kings, however bare Their backs, howe'er extreme Their hunger. And, indeed, each has a voice To accept the tyrant of his party's choice.
A citizen who would not vote, And, therefore, was detested, Was one day with a tarry coat (With feathers backed and breasted) By patriots invested. "It is your duty," cried the crowd, "Your ballot true to cast For the man o' your choice." He humbly bowed, And explained his wicked past: "That's what I very gladly would have done, Dear patriots, but he has never run." Apperton Duke
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Man, WV (town, FIPS 50932) Location: 37.74259 N, 81.87434 W Population (1990): 914 (390 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Man, WV -- U.S. town in West Virginia Population (2000): 770 Housing Units (2000): 363 Land area (2000): 0.586412 sq. miles (1.518800 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.027985 sq. miles (0.072481 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.614397 sq. miles (1.591281 sq. km) FIPS code: 50932 Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54 Location: 37.742776 N, 81.875168 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Man, WV Man
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Man (1.) Heb. 'Adam, used as the proper name of the first man. The name is derived from a word meaning "to be red," and thus the first man was called Adam because he was formed from the red earth. It is also the generic name of the human race (Gen. 1:26, 27; 5:2; 8:21; Deut. 8:3). Its equivalents are the Latin homo and the Greek anthropos (Matt. 5:13, 16). It denotes also man in opposition to woman (Gen. 3:12; Matt. 19:10). (2.) Heb. 'ish, like the Latin vir and Greek aner, denotes properly a man in opposition to a woman (1 Sam. 17:33; Matt. 14:21); a husband (Gen. 3:16; Hos. 2:16); man with reference to excellent mental qualities. (3.) Heb. 'enosh, man as mortal, transient, perishable (2 Chr. 14:11; Isa. 8:1; Job 15:14; Ps. 8:4; 9:19, 20; 103:15). It is applied to women (Josh. 8:25). (4.) Heb. geber, man with reference to his strength, as distinguished from women (Deut. 22:5) and from children (Ex. 12:37); a husband (Prov. 6:34). (5.) Heb. methim, men as mortal (Isa. 41:14), and as opposed to women and children (Deut. 3:6; Job 11:3; Isa. 3:25). Man was created by the immediate hand of God, and is generically different from all other creatures (Gen. 1:26, 27; 2:7). His complex nature is composed of two elements, two distinct substances, viz., body and soul (Gen. 2:7; Eccl. 12:7; 2 Cor. 5:1-8). The words translated "spirit" and "soul," in 1 Thess. 5:23, Heb. 4:12, are habitually used interchangeably (Matt. 10:28; 16:26; 1 Pet. 1:22). The "spirit" (Gr. pneuma) is the soul as rational; the "soul" (Gr. psuche) is the same, considered as the animating and vital principle of the body. Man was created in the likeness of God as to the perfection of his nature, in knowledge (Col. 3:10), righteousness, and holiness (Eph. 4:24), and as having dominion over all the inferior creatures (Gen. 1:28). He had in his original state God's law written on his heart, and had power to obey it, and yet was capable of disobeying, being left to the freedom of his own will. He was created with holy dispositions, prompting him to holy actions; but he was fallible, and did fall from his integrity (3:1-6). (See {FALL}.)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
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