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  MAN, n.  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 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 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 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), n.; 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.
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              These men went about wide, and man found they none,
              But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. --R.
                                                    of Glouc.
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              The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to
              him as it doth to me.                 --Shak.
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              '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.
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              When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I
                                                    Cor. xiii. 11.
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              Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.
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     3. The human race; mankind.
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              And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
              our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i.
                                                    26.
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              The proper study of mankind is man.   --Pope.
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     4. The male portion of the human race.
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              Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than
              man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.
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     5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities
        of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
        --Shak.
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              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.
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     6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
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              Like master, like man.                --Old Proverb.
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              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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
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              I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of
                                                    Com. Prayer.
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              every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.
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     9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of
        the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
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              A man can not make him laugh.         --Shak.
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              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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or
         draughts, are played.
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     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).
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     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), v. t. [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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              See how the surly Warwick mans the wall ! --Shak.
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              They man their boats, and all their young men arm.
                                                    --Waller.
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     2. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for
        efficiency; to fortify. ``Theodosius having manned his
        soul with proper reflections.'' --Addison.
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     3. To tame, as a hawk. [R.] --Shak.
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     4. To furnish with a servant or servants. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     5. To wait on as a manservant. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     Note: In ``Othello,'' V. ii. 270, the meaning is uncertain,
           being, perhaps: To point, to aim, or to manage.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) : [ vera ]


  MAN
       Metropolitan Area Network

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Man \Man\, n.
  
     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-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. Such bullets are chiefly
        used in wars with savage tribes. Manbird \Man"bird`\, n.
     An aviator. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Man \Man\, n.; pl. Men. [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 tobeast.
  
              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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Man \Man\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manned; 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 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
       n 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]
       v 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 Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  man
     Αλβανικά n.
     μούρο
     Δυτικά φριζικά n.
     άντρας
     Σουηδικά n.
     άντρας