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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
man
    n 1: an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there
         were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: man, adult
         male] [ant: adult female, woman]
    2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a
       military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn:
       serviceman, military man, 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: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
       characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech,
       and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being,
       human]
    5: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the
       building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
    6: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and
       courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
    7: 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,
       man]
    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: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Man, Isle
       of Man]
    10: 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: man, piece]
    11: all of the living human 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, man]
    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 workers; "We cannot man all the desks";
       "Students were manning the booths"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
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   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.
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   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]
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   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.
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   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 (Zool.), 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 (Ipomoea
      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.

   great man, a man[2] who has become prominent due to
      substantial and widely admired contributions to social or
      intellectual endeavors; as, Einstein was one of the great
      men of the twentieth century.

   To be one's own man, to have command of one's self; not to
      be subject to another.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            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.
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   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.
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4. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
MAN
       Metropolitan Area Network
       

5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
Metropolitan Area Network
MAN

   (MAN) A data network intended to serve an area the size of a
   large city.  Such networks are being implemented by innovative
   techniques, such as running optical fibre through subway
   tunnels.  A popular example of a MAN is SMDS.

   See also Local Area Network, Wide Area Network.

   (1994-11-22)


6. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
Unix manual page
man
man page
Unix man page

    (Or "man page") A part of Unix's
   extensive on-line documentation.  To read a manual page from
   the Unix command line, type:

   	man [-s
] e.g. "man ftp" (the section number can usually be omitted). Pages are traditionally referred to using the notation "page(section)", e.g. ftp(1). Under SunOS (which is fairly typical), Section 1 covers commands, 2 system calls, 3 C library routines, 4 devices and networks, 5 file formats, 6 games and demos, 7 miscellaneous, 8 system administration. Each section has an introduction which can be obtained with, e.g., "man 2 intro". Manual pages are stored as nroff source files. Formatted versions are also usually cached. Man pages for most versions of Unix are available on-line in HTML. Unix manual page: man(1). <Linux man pages>. <Solaris man pages>. (2010-01-19)
7. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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.)
   

8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
MAN. A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of 
the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against 
man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately 
against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the 
life of man come  under the general name of homicide, which in our law 
signifies the killing of a man by a man." Id. book 1, c. 8, s. 2. 
     2. In a more confined sense, man means a person of the male sex; and 
sometimes it signifies a male of the human species above the age of puberty. 
Vide Rape. It was considered in the civil or Roman law, that although man 
and person are synonymous in grammar, they had a different acceptation in 
law; all persons were men, but all men, for example, slaves, were not 
persons, but things. Vide Barr. on the Stat. 216, note. 



9. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
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 earth 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


10. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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


Thesaurus Results for man:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
2. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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