Manimal vs Maximal - What's the difference?
manimal | maximal |
(informal) A fanciful life form that is part human and part beast; a creature recognizable as human but possessing physical or primitive behavioral characteristics that are exclusive to animals.
*2004 January 1, Christopher Miles, “Kori Newkirk; the project”, Artforum International Magazine
*2006 February 1, Paul Z. Myers, Pharyngula , ScienceBlogs
*:President panders to anti-manimal lobby! Dr Moreau flees country in rage!
*2006 February 4, Charlie Pierce, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! , National Public Radio
*:Two years ago we were going to Mars, and that sort of didn't happen... and now there's, like, manimal .
(slang, by analogy) A person compared to such a creature, especially an unkempt and uncivilized, or strong and sexually aggressive man.
*2004 January 1, Michael Burnett, “Tumyeto army”, Thrasher , High Speed Productions, Inc.
Largest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.
(mathematics) The element of a set with the greatest magnitude.
(mathematics) Said of an ideal of a ring or a filter of a lattice : that it is as large as it can be without being trivial (improper).
(logic) Said of a set of well-formed formulas'': that it is as large as it can be without being inconsistent; i.e. that for any well-formed formula ''φ'', the set contains either ''φ'' or ~''φ .
As nouns the difference between manimal and maximal
is that manimal is (informal) a fanciful life form that is part human and part beast; a creature recognizable as human but possessing physical or primitive behavioral characteristics that are exclusive to animals while maximal is (mathematics) the element of a set with the greatest magnitude.As an adjective maximal is
largest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.manimal
English
Noun
(en noun)- Standing naked against a wintry landscape, the figure became a screen for the projection of identities--beast, bigfoot, manimal , specter, even, to use a word Newkirk's work encourages one to use in all its dangerousness, spook.
- Layton smacked his head hard on a front feeble, but bounced back up to get the make. That kid's a manimal .
- "Oh, he's so on the team," Diego kept saying.
