What's the difference between man and salesman?

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.

Salesman


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (2) The global face of Britain is now a buffoon (as many in Brussels describe him), whose word is as reliable as a used-car salesman’s.
  • (3) The salesman, who had no medical training, arrived each week with pizza to assure Masih that claims of addiction were exaggerated and to press him to prescribe more of the drug.
  • (4) But another lawsuit against Zuckerberg, by Paul Ceglia , a New York-based former wood-pellet salesman who argues that a 2003 contract with Zuckerberg gives him a claim to a large share of the company, which was started in 2004, continues.
  • (5) Branded cigarettes are 'badge' products, frequently on display, which therefore act as a 'silent salesman'.
  • (6) The best bond salesman ever would struggle to sell a billion pounds worth of gilts every day.
  • (7) He has taken on stints as a stable hand, been a door-to-door salesman and set up stages for local concerts: rarely does David Pena turn down a job.
  • (8) The story is influenced by Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
  • (9) His father, an insurance salesman, played the cello and his mother the piano.
  • (10) The Salesman wins best foreign language Oscar Read more Speaking hours before the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, Asghar Farhadi said the movement against the US president empowered people to “say no to oppressive political powers everywhere”.
  • (11) My father [an insurance salesman] thought it was a wonderful movie and, indeed, was well known as the only person in his particular peer group who had understood the movie.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joko Widodo, widely expected to be Indonesia's next president, is a former furniture salesman and mayor of the central Javan city of Surakarta – and is another political anomaly.
  • (13) It certainly isn't the sort of deal that would have been offered or accepted had the salesman appeared on your doorstep.
  • (14) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, former prime minister John Major and the archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby have also weighed in against the energy companies, which the latest polls show are less trusted than banks and car salesman.
  • (15) AstraZeneca's chief executive, Pascal Soriot, brought a new focus on science when he took over from David Brennan, a former salesman, 18 months ago.
  • (16) The gang convicted today were: Lea Rusha, 35, a former roofer of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; car salesman Stuart Royle, 49, of Allen Street, Maidstone, Kent; unemployed Jetmir Bucpapa, 26, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge; garage owner Roger Coutts, 30, of The Green, Welling, south-east London; and Emir Hysenaj, 28, a Post Office worker, of New Road, Crowborough, East Sussex.
  • (17) The @USAdarFarsi account, which launched in February 2011 and seeks to engage directly with Iranians, had previously tweeted messages about The Salesman, including on 24 January when it noted its Academy Award nomination and sent best wishes to Farhadi.
  • (18) Vaz, who reportedly told the men his name was Jim and that he was a washing machine salesman, is also quoted discussing with the men the possibility of obtaining cocaine for the next time they met, although Vaz reportedly said he would not want to take the drug himself.
  • (19) Instead, his pitch was that he was a dealmaker and salesman who could use his gift of the gab and “art of the deal” to break gridlock in Washington DC.
  • (20) The tragedy is that Brown's many admirable qualities and instincts – his social conscience and moral compass – could have been more constructively and generously deployed in shaping Blair's instincts and salesman's skills: they showed at the G7's Africa summit in Gleneagles (2005) what they could do together.

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