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What is the difference between human and flesh?

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As nouns the difference between human and flesh

is that human is a human being, whether man, woman or child while flesh is the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

As a adjective human

is (notcomp) of or belonging to the species homo sapiens or its closest relatives.

As a verb flesh is

to bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

human

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
  • * 2011 August 17, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., The Many Wars of Google: Handset makers will learn to live with their new ‘frenemy’]'', ''Business World'', ''[[w:The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal] ,
    • Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.

    Synonyms

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    Related terms

    * humane * humanitarian * humanitarianism * humanity

    Derived terms

    * human behaviour * human being * human botfly * human capital * human chattel * human chorionic gonadotropin * human-computer interaction * human condition * human death * human development * Human Genome Project * human immunodeficiency virus * human insulin * human interest * humanism * humanist * humanization * humanize * humanizer * human knot * human kind, humankind * humanly * human movement * human nature * humanoid * human papillomavirus * human pyramid * human race * human relations * human resources (HR) * human rights * human trafficking * inhuman * inhumane * nonhuman, non-human * to err is human (human)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A human being, whether man, woman or child.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans , including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
  • * 2013 , Biosocial Becomings (ISBN 110702563X), page 19:
    • There are, then, many ways of humaning : these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.
  • * 1911 , The collected works of Ambrose Bierce , volume 9, page 362:

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    flesh

    English

    (wikipedia flesh)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
  • *1918 , Fannie Farmer, , Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game:
  • *:The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
  • The skin of a human or animal.
  • (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
  • (archaic) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.
  • *:
  • *:Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit
  • *c.1530s , , 7, xix-xxi,
  • *:The flesh' that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire:and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate ' flesh .
  • *:Yf any soule eate of the flesh' of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole(sic). ¶ Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ad the eate of the ' flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.
  • The human body as a physical entity.
  • *c.1530s , , 6, x,
  • *:And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh , and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter,
  • (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
  • *1769 , , 5, xvii,
  • *:For the flesh' lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the ' flesh : and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
  • *1929 January, Bassett Morgan ( ,
  • *:But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh .
  • (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
  • The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
  • *2003 , Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest , page 81,
  • *:The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.
  • (obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
  • *Cowper
  • *:There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
  • (obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
  • *Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 27
  • *:He is our brother and our flesh .
  • A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
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    Verb

  • To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
  • * 1933 , Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
    • Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
  • (obsolete) To inure or habituate someone (in) or (to) a given practice.
  • *, II.7:
    • And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.
  • To put flesh on; to fatten.
  • To add details.
    • The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
  • To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

    • Derived terms

    * exchange flesh * flesh and blood * flesh fly * flesh out * flesh side * flesh-wing * flesh wound * flesher * fleshing * fleshpot * fleshy * goose flesh * in the flesh * one flesh * pound of flesh * press the flesh * proud flesh * way of all flesh

    See also

    * carrion * incarnate * sarcoid *

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