What's the difference between man and manhood?

Man


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
  • (2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (3) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
  • (4) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
  • (5) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
  • (6) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (7) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.
  • (8) Four showed bronchodilation after a deep breath, indicating that this response can occur after extrinsic pulmonary denervation in man.
  • (9) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
  • (10) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (11) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
  • (12) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (13) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (14) These results indicate that both racemic and L-baclofen inhibit trigeminal transmission in man, probably because they interfere with excitatory transmission through the interneurons of the lateral reticular formation.
  • (15) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (16) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (17) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
  • (18) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
  • (19) Subcutaneous adipose tissue extracellular glucose was investigated in vivo in man with a microdialysis technique.
  • (20) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.

Manhood


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
  • (n.) Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Birth control methods, such as vasectomy, conflict with attitudes about manhood in Peruvian society.
  • (2) "Poised at the awkward intersection of real life and fiction, and of boyhood and manhood, the narrator's journal and his first stories are 'full of young men with nothing much to do' and bleed into one another," considered Lucy Daniel in the Daily Telegraph.
  • (3) In February this year the Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign and National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a consumer fraud complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that a Virginia-based group called People Can Change (PCC), which runs programmes such as a Journey Into Manhood is deceiving customers by claiming that conversion therapy works.
  • (4) Many young men end up losing the one thing they ‘go to the mountains’ to attain: their manhood.
  • (5) Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, the Hemsworth brothers ... they're everything Americans idealize about manhood.
  • (6) Having a police officer act out his presumption of your guilt, it seems, is so ubiquitous – even today – that it’s a rite of passage toward manhood for these black and brown boys.
  • (7) Many nations practise it as a rite, the time of its performance varying from soon after birth to early manhood.
  • (8) A girl that becomes pregnant before marriage will be scorned and shamed, while boys boast of their manhood.
  • (9) "I tend to think Khasi men feel diminished in their manhood compared with outsiders," she says.
  • (10) My beloved father, I was separated from you when I was a small child, not yet 13, but I am older now, and have attained manhood,” Hamza wrote in 2009.
  • (11) Kyrgios hits his forehand as if it is a statement of his manhood, all dressed up with deep-lunged exhortations, defying his opponent to hit it back harder if he dare.
  • (12) He says anyone interested in getting to grips with the deep-rooted disaffection and alienation among young men would do well to take "a much closer look" at A Band of Brothers' approach to helping young men make a healthy transition to manhood.
  • (13) His remarks, which are not translated, refer to the traditional Xhosa rites of passage which mark the transition from childhood to manhood – a subject seldom discussed in public.
  • (14) Doubts caused by his intersex status outweigh a manhood based on birth assignment, identity documents, rearing, socialisation, beard, penis and self-identification.
  • (15) West used to be scared of gay people, he said, but now, "authentic" and "secure in [his] manhood", he can "go to Paris [and] have conversations with people who are blatantly gay".
  • (16) They shake musical instruments made from calabash bowls strung from sticks to signify that they are emerging, circumcised, for a public celebration of manhood.
  • (17) He fled to Pakistan as a five-year-old to escape the Taliban and returned in manhood, at great personal risk, to press for his people’s human rights.
  • (18) Recommendations for reducing rape in the region include changing social norms, such as the normalisation of violence against women in many countries, promoting alternative notions of "manhood', ending impunity for men who commit rape, and cutting down on the use of violence to discipline children.
  • (19) However, the survey reveals a widespread lack of knowledge regarding the procedure, as well as negative perceptions or doubts about its effect on sexual performance, ability to do hard work, health, and manhood.
  • (20) Four perceived their fathers as having posed threats of physical or psychological annihilation to them, and five saw paternal threats to their manhood.

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