Metropolitan Area Network or MAN. A high-speed data network that connects multiple Local Area Networks (LANs) spanning a metropolitan area, like a town or city. A MAN is larger than a LAN which takes in a building or a campus, but is smaller than a Wide Area Network (WAN) which typically takes in a wider geographic range.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
man (noun)1.
a) (1) an individual human , especially an adult male human
(2) a man belonging to a particular category (as by birth, residence, membership, or occupation) - usually used in combination councilman
(3) - husband
(4) - lover
b) the human race - humankind
c) a bipedal primate mammal () that is anatomically related to the great apes but distinguished especially by notable development of the brain with a resultant capacity for articulate speech and abstract reasoning, is usually considered to form a variable number of freely interbreeding races, and is the sole living representative of the hominid family - Homo sapiens , broadly any living or extinct hominid
d) (1) one possessing in high degree the qualities considered distinctive of manhood
(2) obsolete the quality or state of being manly - manliness
e) - fellow chap used as mode of familiar address
f) - used interjectionally to express intensity of feeling man, what a game
2.
a) - individual person a man could get killed there
b) the individual who can fulfill or who has been chosen to fulfill one's requirements - she's your man
3.
a) a feudal tenant - vassal
b) an adult male servant
c) the working force as distinguished from the employer and usually the management
4.
a) one of the distinctive objects moved by each player in various board games
b) one of the players on a team
5.
an alumnus of or student at a college or university - a Bowdoin man
6.
Christian Science the compound idea of infinite Spirit the spiritual image and likeness of God the full representation of Mind
7.
often capitalized - police when I heard the siren, I knew it was the Man American Speech
8.
often capitalized the white establishment white society - surprise that any black … should take on so about The Man Peter Goldman
9.
one extremely fond of or devoted to something specified - strictly a vanilla ice cream man
transitive verb
1.
a) to supply with people (as for service) - man a fleet
b) to station members of a ship's crew at - man the capstan
c) to serve in the force or complement of - man the ticket booth
2.
to accustom (as a hawk) to humans and the human environment
3.
to furnish with strength or powers of resistance - brace
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MAN (Wikipedia)
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Man is an animal male of modern human species, its individuals, and nearest extinct relatives. See also man (word) for the etymology.
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