man-made
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3.4
- adjective
- /mænˈmeɪd/
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artificial
- So the Palm was built in six years and is now the largest man made island in the world.
- man-made reservoir
- man-made structures
- man-made lake
I think that's that's a man made creation.
- I think that's that's a man made creation.
- One is that this is still a man made environment.
- Is it that natural disasters are public and man made disasters are private?
- And I mean, I think they, that's the biggest man made machine on Earth, right.
- It was not the fastest man made object at the time, probably.
- So he has no reason to disbelieve it's man made.
- The whole hill could have possibly been man made.
- Well, what we have now is an unmitigated man made disaster.
- No, see, everything, everything that's man made here in this world came out of human intelligence.
- I actually did a lot of work on humanitarian response to disasters, both man made and, and natural disasters.
- Should we engineer microorganisms for use in our oceans to degrade the man made plastic waste found there?
- And constraints are things that are man made and then man learned.
- This is unwell women misdiagnosis and myth in a man made man made world.
Examples
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Ingestion of man-made items poses another threat to fish, marine mammals, and birds.
Academic text (2005) -
All around was the crumbling debris of a huge man-made structure.
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One is that this is still a man made environment.
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War is very much a man made event.
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Then, if not animals, what about man made machines?
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Now I'm going to try to break this amazing piece of man made art.
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Is it that natural disasters are public and man made disasters are private?
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Well, what we have now is an unmitigated man made disaster.
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The city in the actual world is an artificial, man-made structure.
Academic text (2006) -
The Palm was built in six years and is now the largest man-made island in the world.
Synonyms
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3.6
Made by people rather than by nature, often as a copy of something natural
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4.4
Made by people to copy something natural or not genuine
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9.1
Change or pollution caused by human activity
Antonyms
How Artificial
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Man-made comes from two simple parts: man, which here means 'human', and made, meaning 'created'. Like handmade, it shows that people made something, not nature, so we use man-made for things made by people rather than occurring naturally.