Man

[mæn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea.

(noun.) an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); 'there were two women and six men on the bus'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); 'the army will make a man of you'.

(noun.) the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; 'it was every man for himself'.

(noun.) a male subordinate; 'the chief stationed two men outside the building'; 'he awaited word from his man in Havana'.

(verb.) provide with workers; 'We cannot man all the desks'; 'Students were manning the booths'.

(verb.) take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; 'Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning'.

錄入:劳伦斯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

(n.) Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.

(n.) The human race; mankind.

(n.) The male portion of the human race.

(n.) One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.

(n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

(n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!

(n.) A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.

(n.) One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.

(n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.

(v. t.) To tame, as a hawk.

(v. t.) To furnish with a servants.

(v. t.) To wait on as a manservant.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Person, individual, body, somebody, one, personage, soul, living soul, some one, human being.[2]. Mankind, the human race.[3]. Male person.[4]. Adult male.[5]. Piece (as chess, draughts, &c.).

v. a. Furnish with men, supply with hands.

校對:罗杰

解釋/意思:

n. a human being: mankind: a grown-up male: a male attendant: one possessing a distinctively masculine character: a husband: a piece used in playing chess or draughts: a ship as in man-of-war: a word of familiar address:—pl. Men.—v.t. to supply with men: to strengthen or fortify:—pr.p. man′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. manned.—ns. Man′-at-arms a soldier; Man-child a male child: a boy; Man′dom (rare) humanity men collectively; Man′-eat′er a cannibal: a tiger; Man′-en′gine an elevator for raising and lowering men in some deep mines.—adj. Man′ful having the qualities of a man: full of manliness: bold: courageous: noble-minded.—adv. Man′fully.—ns. Man′fulness; Man′-hole a hole in a drain cesspool &c. large enough to admit a man for the purpose of cleaning or repairing it; Man′hood state of being a man: manly quality: human nature; Man′kind the kind or race of man: the mass of human beings.—adj. Man′-like having the appearance characteristics or qualities of a man.—n. Man′liness.—adj. Man′ly becoming a man: brave: dignified: noble: pertaining to manhood: not childish or womanish.—n. Man′-mill′iner a man engaged in millinery—often in contempt.—adjs. Man′-mind′ed (Tenn.) having the mind or qualities of a man; Man′nish like a man: masculine: bold.—ns. Man′-of-war a war-ship: (B.) a soldier; Man′-of-war's-man a man who serves on board a war-ship; Man′-quell′er (Shak.) a man-killer a murderer; Man′slaughter the slaying of a man: (law) the killing of any one unlawfully but without malice or forethought; Man′slayer one who kills a man; Man′stealer one who steals human beings esp. to make slaves of them; Man′trap a trap or machine for catching people who trespass.—Man about town a fashionable idler dangling about clubs theatres &c.; Man alive! an exclamation of surprise; Man Friday a servile attendant factotum—from Robinson Crusoe's man; Man in the moon a fancied semblance of a man walking in the moon with a bush near and his dog behind him; Man of business an agent or a lawyer; Man of (his) hands a handy clever fellow; Man of letters a scholar and writer; Man of sin the devil: Antichrist; Man of straw a person put in the front of some business but who is not really responsible; Man of the world a person well accustomed to the ways and dealings of men.

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