man-made
See also: manmade
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From man (“human”) + made. First attested in 1615. According to the OED, the pronunciation with primary stress on man, /ˈmænˌmeɪd/, is older.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmænˌmeɪd/ (in British English this pronunciation is restricted to predicative use)[1], /ˌmænˈmeɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]man-made (not comparable)
- Created or caused by human beings, as opposed to occurring in nature; artificial or synthetic.
- Synonyms: human-made, person-made
- Antonym: nonmanmade
- Hyponym: woman-made
- 1937, Joseph Brown Thomas, Hounds and hunting through the ages:
- It is, in my belief, an artificial, man-made development in hounds, since it exists only in rudimentary form in other dogs, foxes, and wolves, which are said sometimes to give cry when hunting their game.
- 1974, US Navy SEAL Combat Manual[1]:
- Draw in both man-made and natural obstacles. Anything that may hinder the proposed landing (e.g., cusps, submerged rocks, partially awash or submerged wrecks, scullies, berm scarps, sandbars, rails, etc.) may be considered an obstacle.
- 1976, Harry Austryn Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Kalam, page 146:
- Consequently, […] the question arises in our mind whether […] there was not also in Islam a controversy over the inlibration, that is, the embookment, of the pre-existing Koran in the revealed Koran and also over the problem of whether the revealed Koran had two natures, a divine and a man-made, or only one nature, a man-made nature.
Usage notes
[edit]- See the usage notes about man.
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “man-made, adj. & n..”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
