man vs mother

man

noun
  • A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) 

  • A male lover; a boyfriend. 

  • An adult male servant. 

  • A husband. 

  • A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste. 

  • All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.) 

  • An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch. 

  • A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.) 

  • A piece or token used in board games such as chess. 

  • An adult male human. 

  • A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter. 

  • A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact. 

  • A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.) 

  • A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males. 

  • All human males collectively: mankind. 

  • A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens. 

  • A vassal; a subject. 

  • A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc. 

  • A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc. 

name
  • A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. 

verb
  • To take up position in order to operate (something). 

  • To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). 

intj
  • Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man. 

adj
  • Only used in man enough 

pron
  • Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person. 

  • Any person, one 

mother

noun
  • A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered). 

  • A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children. 

  • The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed. 

  • A striking example. 

  • Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air. 

  • Motherfucker. 

  • The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc. 

  • A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. 

  • A pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby. 

  • A source or origin. 

  • A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug. 

  • A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records. 

  • Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.) 

  • A female ancestor. 

  • Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community. 

  • Any person or entity which performs mothering. 

verb
  • To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture. 

  • To develop mother. 

  • To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) 

  • To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”). 

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