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   Jul 26, 2017 · This means I consider man in man-made to have the sense of mankind (the human race) not male person. Human-made would not present any difficulties in understanding; however, dropping a neologism into the middle of a text does disrupt the flow of reading (in my opinion).

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishMAN-MADE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   MAN-MADE definition: 1. artificial rather than natural: 2. artificial rather than natural: 3. produced or developed by…. Learn more.

3. english.stackexchange.com › questions › 397614what's the difference between "artificial" and "man-made"?

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   Jul 6, 2017 · Artificial is etymologically Romance for made by art, art being an important differentia for our species (see Sophocles Antigone 332ff.), where man-made is Germanic in origin and instead names the species itself, though perhaps in a regrettably sexist manner. As used, I don't think there is any reliable distinction in meaning between the two.

4. www.reddit.com › r › changemyviewCMV: Anything that is man-made is natural. : r/changemyview

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   Natural vs supernatural Natural vs man-made. For the second sense, by definition, man-made is the opposite of, and mutually exclusive to, natural, merely by virtue of the fact that this sense of the word is intended to distinguish between what is man-made and that which is not.

5. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › man-madeMan-made Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   The meaning of MAN-MADE is manufactured, created, or constructed by human beings; specifically : synthetic. How to use man-made in a sentence.

6. www.oed.com › dictionary › man-made_adjman-made, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford ...

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   What does the word man-made mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the word man-made , one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   What does man made mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! MAN-MADE definition: 1. artificial rather than natural: 2. artificial rather than natural: 3. produced or developed by…. Learn more.

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   Is man-made wrong?

   • man-made is wrong here anyway. Man-made is really for things, not states of affairs. Poverty is a phenomenon for which humans are responsible or created by humans. For climate change "anthropogenic" is used.

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   What does'man-made' mean?

   • I'm with @Lambie ... that this isn't a good place for "man-made" in it's generally understood meaning, let alone the gender issues. "man-made" pretty much means "manufactured" (and I don't think that needs to be turned into "humanufactured"). For your sentence I might choice "society" or "societal", or "socially created" phenomenon .

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   What is the difference between artificial and man-made?

   • I agree with Chris H but artificial is a gender-neutral way of saying man made, equating to engineered - while man-made itself is meant to be gender-neutral. Can we drop questions of man-made, human-made or the sense of mankind, not male person?

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   Is poverty a man-made phenomenon?

   • Poverty is a human-made phenomenon. Since it still contains the word "man", some might say it is not. Yet, to my understanding, human has a much broad meaning than just a male person. man-made is wrong here anyway. Man-made is really for things, not states of affairs. Poverty is a phenomenon for which humans are responsible or created by humans.

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   Did you use the word'man-made' to describe artificial snow?

   • People there managed to make some artificial snow (as I called it) for tourists to enjoy. But for the rest of our conversations, my colleagues, who are english native speakers (I am not), used the word "man-made" to describe the snow. Did I incorrectly use the word "artificial" in this situation ?

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8. www.reddit.com › r › askphilosophyIs there any meaningful distinction between natural and man ...

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   The more accurately we can simulate a design process by agent-based modeling, the more that process adheres to the kind of processes we see in nature. For example, it would be easy to argue that cars are man-made, but I would call traffic a natural process. To me, this all means that the idea of "man-made" is an effect of a conscious effort.