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HUMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
Synonyms:
homo; human; human being; man
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("human" is a kind of...):
hominid (a primate of the family Hominidae)
Meronyms (parts of "human"):
face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)
hand; manus; mitt; paw (the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb)
arm (a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb)
foot; human foot; pes (the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint)
human head (the head of a human being)
head of hair; mane (growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being)
body hair (short hair growing over a person's body)
anatomy; bod; build; chassis; figure; flesh; form; frame; human body; material body; physical body; physique; shape; soma (alternative names for the body of a human being)
loin; lumbus (either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds)
Domain member category:
prepubertal; prepubescent ((especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth)
syndactylism; syndactyly (birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes)
hyperdactyly; polydactyly (birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes)
schistosome dermatitis; swimmer's itch (a sensitization reaction to repeated invasion of the skin by cercariae of schistosomes)
nutrition (the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans))
body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))
side (either the left or right half of a body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "human"):
human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world (all of the living human inhabitants of the earth)
Homo erectus (extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain)
Homo soloensis (extinct primitive hominid of late Pleistocene; Java; formerly Javanthropus)
Homo habilis (extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics)
Homo sapiens (the only surviving hominid; species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools; brain volume at least 1400 cc)
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis; Neandertal; Neandertal man; Neanderthal; Neanderthal man (extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia)
Homo rhodesiensis; Rhodesian man (a primitive hominid resembling Neanderthal man but living in Africa)
Holonyms ("human" is a member of...):
genus Homo (type genus of the family Hominidae)
Derivation:
human (having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings)
human (characteristic of humanity)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings
Example:
human frailty
Classified under:
Similar:
anthropoid; manlike (resembling human beings)
anthropomorphic; anthropomorphous; humanlike (suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things)
earthborn (springing from or born on the earth)
fallible; frail; imperfect; weak (wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings)
hominal (of humankind as a species)
hominian; hominid (characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures)
hominine (characteristic of humankind)
Attribute:
humanity; humanness; manhood (the quality of being human)
Antonym:
nonhuman (not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings)
Derivation:
human (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)
humanity; humanness (the quality of being human)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characteristic of humanity
Example:
human nature
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
humanity (the quality of being human)
Derivation:
human (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)
humanness (the quality of being human)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to a person
Example:
the experiment was conducted on 6 monkeys and 2 human subjects
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
humanity (the quality of being human)
Derivation:
humanity; humanness (the quality of being human)
Context examples:
Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Human ABCA5 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 17q24.3 and is approximately 83 kb in length.
(ABCA5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Melanoma antigen recognized by T-cells 1 (118 aa, ~13 kDa) is encoded by the human MLANA gene.
(Melanoma Antigen Recognized by T-Cells 1, NCI Thesaurus)
A cancer vaccine prepared from human melanoma cancer cells.
(Melanoma vaccine, NCI Dictionary)
I never heard you speak ill of a human being in your life.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The study of microorganisms with an emphasis on their role in the human disease process.
(Medical Microbiology, NCI Thesaurus)
But fashions are like human beings.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They whispered together, and then they all three laughed—such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Human AATF wild-type allele is located within 17q11.2-q12 and is approximately 108 kb in length.
(AATF wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
