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Mane vs Mand - What's the difference?

mane | mand |

As nouns the difference between mane and mand

is that mane is longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion while mand is a verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore under the functional control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation.

As a verb mand is

to produce a mand (verbal operant).

mane

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion
  • * 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
    • Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane , and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
  • Long or thick hair of a person's head.

    • Anagrams

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    mand

    English

    Etymology 1

    Introduced by B. F. Skinner.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (psychology) A verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore under the functional control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (psychology) To produce a mand (verbal operant).

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A demand.
    • (Webster 1913) ----