What's the difference between mankind and people?

Mankind


Definition:

  • (n.) The human race; man, taken collectively.
  • (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.

People


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
  • (n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
  • (n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
  • (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
  • (n.) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
  • (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
  • (2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
  • (4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (5) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (6) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (7) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (8) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
  • (9) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (10) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (11) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
  • (12) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (13) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (14) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (15) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (16) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (17) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (18) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
  • (19) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (20) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.