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mammoth | human |

As nouns the difference between mammoth and human

is that mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia while human is a human being, whether man, woman or child.

As adjectives the difference between mammoth and human

is that mammoth is comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic while human is of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.

As a verb human is

to behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.

mammoth

English

Noun

(wikipedia mammoth) (en noun)
  • Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus , of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1618 , year_published= 1976 , author= , by= , title= Oxford Slavonic Papers. New Series. , url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=QoCjUdigHI764APe4oDQCQ&id=Ul0UXua4LgMC&dq=Maimanto&q=Maimanto , original= , chapter= The Implications of James's Maimanto , section= Dictionariolum Russico-Anglicum , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= , editor= Robert Auty, I. P. Foote , volume= 9 , page= 103 , passage= Maimanto , as they say a sea elephant which is never seene, but accordinge to the Samuites he workes himselfe under grownde and so they finde his teeth or homes or bones in Pechore and Nova Zemla of which they }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1698 , year_published= 1908 , author= Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf , by= , title= A New English dictionary on historical principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=iakjAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA98 , original= , chapter= , section= A. Brand's Emb. Muscovy into China , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= Oxford , editor= Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions , volume= 6 , page= 98 , passage= The Mammotovoy , which is dug out of the Earth in Siberia. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1706 , year_published= 1809 , author= (Evert Ysbrants Ides) , by= , title= The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from Their Commencement in 1665 to the Year 1800. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=hyrZGZgfV00C&pg=PA243 , original= , chapter= An Account of Elephants Teeth and Bones, found under Ground , section= Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-land to China: Thro' Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, Etc. to Peking ; Containing an Exact and Particular Description of the Extent and Limits of Those Countries, and the Customs of the Barbarous Inhabitants; with Reference to Their Religion, Government, Marriages, Daily Imployments, Habits, Habitations, Diet Death, Funerals etc. to which is Annex'd an Accurat Description of China, Done Originally by a Chinese Author. , isbn= , edition= , publisher= C. and R. Baldwin , location= London , editor= , volume= 7 , page= 243 , passage= The old Siberian Russians affirm that the Mammuth is very like the Elephant. }}
  • (obsolete) A mastodon.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1812 , year_published= , author= Samuel Fothergill and William Royston , by= , title= The Medical and Physical Journal , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=BRgCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24 , original= , chapter= Half-yearly View of the Progress of Medicine , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Richard Phillips , location= London , editor= , volume= 27 , page= 24 , passage= Many of our readers will remember the skeleton of the American mammoth , now the Mastodonton, being exhibited in London by Mr. Rembrandt Peale. }}
  • (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1802 , year_published= 1912 , author= Richard Hopwood Thornton , by= , title= An American Glossary: Being an Attempt to Illustrate Certain Americanisms Upon Historical Principles , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=SJYSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA571 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= J. B. Lippincott Company , location= Philadelphia , editor= Louise Wardell Hanley , volume= 2 , page= 571 , passage= The last load, as we Yankees say, was a "Mammoth ": producing an aggregate of nearly twelve cords. }}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1801 , year_published= 2009 , author= (Thomas Jefferson) , by= , title= The papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 August to 30 November 1801 , url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=dpCjUeORAoX94AOdmYAQ&id=4_kMAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22inclosed+is+directed%22 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= 0691137730 , edition= , publisher= Princeton University Press , location= , editor= Julian Parks Boyd , volume= 35 , page= 479 , passage= I recieved from the persons to whom the inclosed is directed, a present of a quarter of a Mammoth -veal which at 115. days old weighed 438. lb. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1802 , year_published= 1912 , author= Richard Hopwood Thornton , by= , title= An American Glossary: Being an Attempt to Illustrate Certain Americanisms Upon Historical Principles , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=SJYSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA571 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= J. B. Lippincott Company , location= Philadelphia , editor= Louise Wardell Hanley , volume= 2 , page= 571 , passage= A baker in this city offers Mammoth bread for sale. We suppose that his gigantic loaves were baked at a Salt Lick, and perhaps }}
  • * 1898 , ,
    • “Ha! ha!” he proudly cried, “a fig / For this, your mammoth torso! / Just watch me while I grow as big / As you—or even more so!”

    Derived terms

    * mammoth powder * mammoth tree * mammoth-wise

    Synonyms

    * (very large) colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, titanic * See also

    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

    * (l)

    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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    Anagrams

    * (l)

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