MEN 音标拼音: [m'ɛn]
n .
pl .
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man 的复数
men n 1 :
the force of workers available [
synonym : {
work force },
{
workforce }, {
manpower }, {
hands }, {
men }]
Henchman \
Hench "
man \ (
h [
e ^]
nch "
man ),
n .;
pl . {-
men } (-
men ). [
OE .
hencheman ,
henxman ;
prob .
fr .
OE . &
AS .
hengest horse E .
man ,
and meaning ,
a groom .
AS .
hengest is akin to D . &
G .
hengst stallion ,
OHG .
hengist horse ,
gelding .]
An attendant ;
a servant ;
a follower .
Now chiefly used as a political cant term .
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Gownsman \
Gowns "
man \,
Gownman \
Gown "
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men } (-
men ).
One whose professional habit is a gown ,
as a divine or lawyer ,
and particularly a member of an English university ;
hence ,
a civilian ,
in distinction from a soldier .
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Handcraftsman \
Hand "
crafts `
man \ (-
man ),
n .;
pl . {-
men } (-
men ).
A handicraftsman .
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Handicraftsman \
Hand "
i *
crafts `
man \ (-
kr [.
a ]
fts `
man ),
n .;
pl .
{-
men } (-
men ).
A man skilled or employed in handcraft . --
Bacon .
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Signalman \
Sig "
nal *
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
A man whose business is to manage or display signals ;
especially ,
one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned .
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Skyman \
Sky "
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
An aeronaut . [
Slang ]
Syn :
airman ;
pilot .
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Webster 1913 Suppl .
PJC ]
Orangeman \
Or "
ange *
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
One of a secret society ,
organized in the north of Ireland in 1795 ,
the professed objects of which are the defense of the reigning sovereign of Great Britain ,
the support of the Protestant religion ,
the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom ,
etc .; --
so called in honor of William ,
Prince of Orange ,
who became William III .
of England .
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Overman \
O "
ver *
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
1 .
One in authority over others ;
a chief ;
usually ,
an overseer or boss .
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2 .
An arbiter .
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3 .
In the philosophy of Nietzsche ,
a man of superior physique and powers capable of dominating others ;
one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery .
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Keelman \
Keel "
man \,
n .;
pl . -{
men }.
See {
Keeler },
1 .
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Plainsman \
Plains "
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
One who lives in the plains .
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Plowman \
Plow "
man \,
Ploughman \
Plough "
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
1 .
One who plows ,
or who holds and guides a plow ;
hence ,
a husbandman . --
Chaucer .
Macaulay .
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2 .
A rustic ;
a countryman ;
a field laborer .
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{
Plowman '
s spikenard } (
Bot .),
a European composite weed ({
Conyza squarrosa }),
having fragrant roots . --
Dr .
Prior .
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Plowpoint
Point man \
Point "
man `\,
n .;
pl . {-
men } (-
men ).
1 . (
Mil .)
the lead soldier in a foot patrol under combat conditions .
[
PJC ]
2 .
a person who takes a conspicuous public position in proposing a new idea or initiating a new policy ,
who may become a target of criticism for those opposed . "
The Secretary of State served as point man for the administration '
s new China policy ."
[
PJC ]
Pointsman \
Points "
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men } (-
men ).
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches . [
Eng .]
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Light -
horseman \
Light "-
horse `
man \ (
l [
imac ]
t "
h [^
o ]
rs `
man ),
n .;
pl . {-
men } (
l [
imac ]
t "
h [^
o ]
rs `
men ).
1 .
A soldier who serves in the light horse .
See under 5th {
Light }.
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2 . (
Zool .)
A West Indian fish of the genus {
Ephippus },
remarkable for its high dorsal fin and brilliant colors .
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Lightman \
Light "
man \ (
l [
imac ]
t "
m [
a ^]
n ),
n .;
pl . {-
men }
(
l [
imac ]
t "
m [
e ^]
n ).
A man who carries or takes care of a light . --
T .
Brown .
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Low -
churchman \
Low "-
church `
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
One who holds low -
church principles .
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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 .
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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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Men \
Men \ (
m [
e ^]
n ),
n .,
pl .
of {
Man }.
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Men \
Men \,
pron . [
OE .
me ,
men . "
Not the plural of man ,
but a weakened form of the word man itself ."
Skeat .]
A man ;
one ; --
used with a verb in the singular ,
and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they . [
Obs .]
--
Piers Plowman .
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Men moot give silver to the poure friars . --
Chaucer .
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A privy thief ,
men clepeth death . --
Chaucer .
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Roberdsman \
Rob "
erds *
man \,
Robertsman \
Rob "
erts *
man \,
n .;
pl .
{-
men }. (
Old Statutes of Eng .)
A bold ,
stout robber ,
or night thief ; --
said to be so called from Robin Hood .
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Ribbonman \
Rib "
bon *
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
A member of the Ribbon Society .
See {
Ribbon Society },
under {
Ribbon }.
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Trackman \
Track "
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }. (
Railroads )
One employed on work on the track ;
specif .,
a trackwalker .
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Webster 1913 Suppl .]
Tripeman \
Tripe "
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
A man who prepares or sells tripe .
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Herdman \
Herd "
man \,
Herdsman \
Herds "
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds ;
one employed in tending a herd of cattle .
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Beadsman \
Beads "
man \,
Bedesman \
Bedes "
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
A poor man ,
supported in a beadhouse ,
and required to pray for the soul of its founder ;
an almsman .
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Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God . --
Fuller .
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High -
churchman \
High "-
church `
man \,
n .;
pl . {-
men }.
One who holds high -
church principles .
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57 Moby Thesaurus words for "
men ":
Everyman ,
John Doe ,
Public ,
body politic ,
citizenry ,
common man ,
commonwealth ,
community ,
community at large ,
crew ,
employees ,
estate ,
everybody ,
everyman ,
everyone ,
everywoman ,
fighting force ,
firepower ,
folk ,
folks ,
force ,
forces ,
gang ,
general public ,
gentry ,
hands ,
help ,
hired help ,
male sex ,
man ,
manhood ,
mankind ,
menfolk ,
menfolks ,
nation ,
nationality ,
people ,
people in general ,
personnel ,
persons ,
polity ,
populace ,
population ,
public ,
retinue ,
servantry ,
society ,
staff ,
state ,
sword side ,
the big battalions ,
the help ,
troops ,
units ,
work force ,
world ,
you and me
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