(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.
Philanthropist
Definition:
(n.) One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.
Example Sentences:
(1) The school, funded by a £75m gift from a US philanthropist, will train graduates from around the world in the "skills and responsibilities of government," the university said.
(2) Scientists at a major international research centre based in Mexico say recent donations from billionaire philanthropists have taken them significantly closer to providing poor farmers with more productive, nutritional and resistant varieties of wheat and maize at a critical time.
(3) Like traditional English philanthropists, the ladies running Hailsham believe that some wider public will feel more humanely towards these "poor creatures" if they can be shown to make art.
(4) But the spectacularly successful Sri Lanka-born philanthropist built his fortune through lies, according to federal agents who swooped on him for insider trading in New York yesterday.
(5) The campaign, called #ISurvivedEbola, is funded by US philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft Paul G Allen’s foundation which has committed $100m to fight the disease.
(6) This week Jenkins had defended the ties with Sterling, 80, on the basis he was a philanthropist who financially supported the NAACP and other groups which campaigned for racial and ethnic minorities.
(7) Poroshenko should get support from George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, who is pushing European governments to offer Kiev more help.
(8) It comes days after the philanthropist Gates announced plans for a $100m scheme to cut malnutrition in Nigeria.
(9) He was a botanical collector, a philanthropist, and an active member of the Society of Friends.
(10) Maxway is owned by Art Pope, a conservative philanthropist who is arguably the most influential figure in state politics.
(11) The government hopes it will also encourage donations from philanthropists.
(12) The easyJet founder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou , has promised to give more than half of his £2bn fortune to charity after he was “inspired” by the world’s richest man, the Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates.
(13) Everybody recognises the damage done by HIV, but few realise the burden of sickness and disability caused by the group of diseases identified by the billionaire philanthropist, which are transmitted mostly by parasites, flies and worms.
(14) Until we have zero new Ebola cases, the risk of continued severe economic impact to the three countries and beyond remains unacceptably high.” This tempering of hope with caution was also evident in Davos, where Ebola is among the global issues being discussed by policymakers, wealthy philanthropists and top officials from the world’s most influential non-governmental organisations.
(15) There the aristocratic owners, Lord and Lady Mount Temple, assembled an eclectic crowd of Pre-Raphalites, spiritualist mediums and emancipated slaves – thereby confirming to Marx and Engels' surprisingly modern-sounding critique of conservative or bourgeois socialism as "philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers … desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society".
(16) He may be best known in Europe as one of the world's most active art collectors - a couple of months ago, he spent more than $25m in the space of 24 hours, buying works by Cézanne and Renoir at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York - but in Las Vegas he is casino magnate, philanthropist, city father and enigma all rolled into one.
(17) Melinda Gates is a businesswoman and philanthropist, and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .
(18) It took another 40 years for Turing's imagined game to become a reality, when in 1990 the American philanthropist Hugh Loebner founded the annual Loebner prize for artificial intelligence , "the first formal instantiation of the Turing test".
(19) The government is deploying 6,000 police to protect the event, which attracts world leaders, policymakers, philanthropists and business leaders to discuss Africa's economic growth prospects.
(20) Stephanie Mbida, executive director, KickLoans , New York City, USA, @StephanieMbida Stephanie is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist.