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man-made, a.|ˈmænmeɪd|
Also (occas.) as two words and (more freq.) manmade.
[f. man n.1 + made ppl. a.]
Made by man; made or devised by human effort, i.e. not existing in nature; artificial: applied esp. to fibres and fabrics manufactured from chemicals of natural or synthetic origin. Also ellipt. and fig.
a1718Penn Life Wks. 1726 I. 170 What I meant by Clergy, viz. A Man-made and Mercenary Ministry. 1839Bailey Festus xxxiii. (1848) 356 Man-made gods. 1921W. de la Mare Mem. Midget xxxiii. 237 There was nothing man-made in Fanny; and if there are women-shaped mermaids I know what looks will be seen in their faces. 1939G. B. Shaw In Good King Charles's Golden Days I. 29, I tell you that from the moment you allow this manmade monster called a Church to enter your mind your inner light is like an extinguished candle. 1948Sci. News VII. 86 When..the country is small and the civilisation old, one finds that the landscape is eventually almost entirely man-made. 1955Times 5 July 16/3 Man-made fibres, by which I mean those made by the viscose and acetate processes and the various synthetic fibres. Ibid. (Suppl.) p. ii/1 The first man-made forest of such a size to be used for large-scale paper-making will provide the raw material for the 300-acre combined pulp, newsprint and timber mill. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 1 Mar. 62/1 Yet another Welsh valley is to be flooded. In time, another man-made lake. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. V. 242/1 Rayon is a man-made fibre but not a synthetic fiber. Nylon is a synthetic fiber. 1968Daily Tel. 4 Nov. 2/1 Still no let-up is visible in the prodigious progress of man-made fibres... This year's man-made production at the ninth-month mark was more than 26 p.c. above last year's level at the same stage. Ibid., Man-mades now have a quarter of the total world fibre output. 1969D. C. Hague Managerial Econ. ii. iv. 90 A large proportion of output in a modern economy is accounted for by..large firms. In the United Kingdom, this happens in the..manmade fibre industries. 1969New Yorker 12 Apr. 85/1 In order to avoid capturing one of their own microflora or gathering any of the other manmade contaminants on the surface of the moon, the astronauts will have to take the sample for the exobiologists from underground. 1974Country Life 3–10 Jan. 54/2 Coats and dresses in ultrasuede, a man-made, washable material. |