(n.) Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race.
(n.) Human feelings; humanity.
(a.) Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Being able to look ahead, being able to make a correct prediction of events and developments has been of great interest to mankind since biblical times and with good reason.
(2) He offerered some hope – "just as mankind had the power to push the world to the brink so, too, do we have the power to bring it back into balance" but not enough for one woman, who concluded: "He sure needs a hug."
(3) We should immediately consider the organ transplantation as one of the medical treatments for the above-mentioned patients out of love for mankind.
(4) The common bovine papilloma virus type 1 has been widely used to stimulate basic research on papilloma viruses involved in some cancers of mankind.
(5) These short films aren't always musical; Laser Cats is a deliberately retro-amateurish sci-fi series about mutant cats who shoot lasers from their eyes, while a student film about giraffes claims that they are from outer space and will destroy mankind.
(6) Today the overestimation of human understanding is reflected in a dogmatic adherence to specific professional or idealogically biased doctrines and in the dubious ideal of a purely empirical science with its limited applicability to mankind.
(7) The egg is one of the most ancient symbols in mankind.
(8) This paper presents in an intellectually very shortened form the most important developmental stages of diet since the beginning of mankind.
(9) Scott's film, which starred Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba, centred on the human crew of a spaceship sent to investigate a distant planet where the answers to mankind's origins may lie hidden.
(10) Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous."
(11) We are learning how to: 1) vary wavelength, pulse duration, and energy to influence the nature of microscopic injury and host response in order to achieve a net therapeutic benefit; 2) utilize exogenous chromophores to increase the selection of targets for laser radiation; and 3) capture optical technology developed for industrial and military use, in order to benefit mankind with new medical and surgical techniques.
(12) Merkel delivered her own kind of blow, on the day of his election, stating that cooperation with the US could only exist on the basis of values, which meant respect for the inalienable dignity of mankind, whatever one’s origins or beliefs.
(13) A sense of the end-times is also apparent in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Contagion , where super-intelligent apes and killer microbes respectively are poised to wipe out mankind.
(14) There are mixed views not only about how sustained that warming is – seemingly it has not warmed for the last 15 years, and also the relative contributions of mankind and natural causes.” Abbott seems to have learnt from Howard’s experience of digging in, only to be forced into a policy reversal when he found himself on the wrong side of public opinion.
(15) In a joint op-ed in the National Review , Pruitt wrote that the debate on climate change is “far from settled”, adding: “Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.” In fact, the overwhelming majority of scientists agree climate change is happening and caused by humans.
(16) The knowledge of the presence of the paranasal sinuses dates back to early mankind as well as attempts to treat their diseases.
(17) Classical approaches to the development of vaccines have provided mankind with a number of safe and effective vaccines (think of the world-wide eradication of smallpox).
(18) The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind.
(19) Morrison has also just edited and published Burn This Book, a collection of essays on censorship and the power of words, in which she writes that "a writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity".
(20) If it is just another movie in which mankind fails in the most basic tests of humanity when confronted by something alien to himself, I think we’ve all seen that one before.
Noman
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Offering a pair of binoculars, first lieutenant Noman Osman, a Kurdish soldier, pointed to the Isis checkpoint.
(2) "We reached the roundabout and then a group of soldiers under the bridge just started shooting straight at us without warning – they were 10 metres away," said Abulqawy Noman, a professor of chemistry at Sana'a University, as doctors in a field hospital held up an x-ray apparently showing an image of his calf with a bullet lodged below the knee.
(3) "He has defected from the regime," said Noman Benotman, a friend of Koussa and senior analyst at Britain's Quilliam thinktank.
(4) Serum thyroglobulin Tg(RIA) was studied in 161 residents of the Nomane region of New Guinea.
(5) Yet instead of crushing them, the government was keen on appeasing them by arresting secular bloggers.” Noman said police were investigating a tweet by the pro-Islamist group Ansar Bangla Seven that appeared to celebrate Roy’s murder.
(6) The mean values of various thyroid function tests in 37 subjects from KarKar Island were similar to the corresponding values in Nomane subjects.
(7) Noman Atefi, the spokesman for the Afghan national army’s eastern corps command, said one Afghan soldier had been killed and two others wounded in the shootout.
(8) The pattern of the killing appeared to be the same as that of previous attack on a celebrated writer,” said Shiblee Noman, assistant commissioner of Dhaka police.
(9) Tariq Noman, a doctor working in a nearby field hospital, said five others were killed by the shelling.
(10) Tariq Noman, a doctor working in a field hospital, told the Guardian that people were dying because of a shortage of medical supplies.
(11) "Their wounds are appalling," said Anas Noman, a third year medical student volunteering in the camp's mosque turned field hosptial.