man-made
adj/ˈmænˌmeɪd/ · /ˌmænˈmeɪd/
Etymology From man (“human”) + made. First attested in 1615. According to the OED the pronunciation with primary stress on man, /ˈmænˌmeɪd/, is older.
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Created by people, as opposed to occurring in nature; artificial or synthetic.
- 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.1937, Joseph Brown Thomas, Hounds and hunting through the ages:
- 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.1974, US Navy SEAL Combat Manual:
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- 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.1976, Harry Austryn Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Kalam, page 146:
- Synonyms
- human-made, person-made
- Hyponyms
- woman-made