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male | manscape |

As nouns the difference between male and manscape

is that male is tip (tip), summit, top (tree) while manscape is a view of a group of people.

As a verb manscape is

(rare) to impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.

male

English

(wikipedia male)

Adjective

(-)
  • Belonging to the sex which typically has testes, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XY chromosomes.
  • * 1969 , Human afflictions and chromosomal aberrations , page 245:
    • On the one hand, the observation of Shah et al''. (1961) of male pseudohermaphroditism with XX karyotype and intra-abdominal testicles. Only the skin was studied so that a possibility of mosaicism cannot be dismissed. Two other XX male subjects (Court Brown ''et al. , 1964) raise a similar problem.
  • * 1995 , Nancy Condee, Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-century Russia , page 113:
    • The masked woman's lips do not move, but her voice is heard again, "And then, awakened by a daring kiss..."
    Behind the mask[,] the woman's eyes flicker open as a male voice is heard off-screen,
  • Belonging to the masculine (social) gender.
  • Pertaining to or associated with men, or male animals; masculine.
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, page 289:
    • In the powder rooms of the world's great hotels[,] when male lesbians meet they show each other their wedding rings and burst out laughing.
  • * 2009 December 11, The Guardian :
    • "While No Doubt are avid fans of the Rolling Stones and even have performed in concerts with them, the Character Manipulation Feature results in an unauthorised performance by the Gwen Stefani avatar in a male voice boasting about having sex with prostitutes," the band's lawyers alleged.
  • (biology) Inherently characteristic of the male of a species.
  • * 2009 September 11, The Guardian :
    • "It's very complex area," said Bowen-Simpkins, a consultant gynaecologist. "The male hormone is what gives bulk to muscles and bones so they are at an advantage."
  • (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
  • * 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:
    • The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
  • (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a "female" counterpart, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

    • Synonyms

    * manly, masculine * (figuratively) plug, pin

    Coordinate terms

    * transgender * intersex * androgynous * female * neuter

    Derived terms

    * male-assigned, cismale, transmale

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
  • # A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
  • #* 2008 , Linda Goldman, Coming Out, Coming in: Nurturing the Well-being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society (ISBN 0415958245), page 27:
  • a biologically female person who identifies as a male .
  • #* 2013 , Emery & Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics (ISBN 0123838355), chapter 88, page 6:
  • Among 46,XX males not having genital ambiguity, 80% show SRY as noted.
  • # An animal of the sex that has testes.
  • # A plant of the masculine sex.

    • Synonyms

    * boy

    Antonyms

    * female

    See also

    * man * macho * masculine * * sex, gender, gender identity

    Anagrams

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    manscape

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A view of a group of people.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1859, title=A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853, author=Bayard Taylor
    • , passage=I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manspace at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda.}}
  • A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2001, title=Earth Revealing--earth Healing, author=Denis Edwards
    • , passage=For example, he compares the monumental conquest of Mount Rushmore by Europeans, in which landscape became manscape . w'ith the indigenous Lakota people's desire to honor the Great Spirit, Wakonda
  • An image, normally artistic, of the male form.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Best Gay Erotica 2002, author=Richard Labonte
    • , passage=no contemplative staring at the marble-statue manscape I'd downloaded from one of the porno websites I'd found.}}

    Verb

    (manscap)
  • (rare) To impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1958, title=The New Zealand Railway Observer, author=New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society
    • , passage=On the valley floor, wide enough to admit the more pleasing features of manscaping , the Little River meanders}}
  • (neologism) To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2009 , date=October 6 , author=Molly Kissler , title=How To: Manscape , work=State Press Magazine citation , passage="Manscaping, otherwise known as the art of shaving, waxing and cleaning up the superfluous fur on a man..., is a must in this day and age"}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2009 , date=September 30 , author=Sara DiRienzo , title=The Art of Manscaping , work=College News citation , passage=College News'' presents a working guide of the dos and don’ts of manscaping''', taken from suggestions of college students themselves: Dos: ...Facial shaving/beard trimming, ...Controlling pubic hair, ...Embrace leg hair; Donts: Excessive chest hair, Long nose hairs, Ear hair, Adventurous shoulder and back hair, Unibrows, Wild beards... Follow these directions, and you’ll be making sure that the man in your life is properly ' manscaped . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Jen Lancaster, title=Bright Lights, Big Ass
    • , passage=Is it that hard to manscape ? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?}}

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