Pronunciation: /meɪn/
Definition:
1. Superior limb used for grasping, capturing, or performing tasks.
2. Human appendage extending from shoulder (arm) to fingers.
3. Body part capable of fine motor abilities.
4. Extremity used in daily activities.
Significance:
• It defines hands or gripping limbs.
• It emphasizes human capability.
• It identifies anatomical features.
• It avoids Scandinavian-Germanic origins.
• It simplifies descriptions of hands.
• It improves clarity in biological contexts.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, similar to "hand".
Singular noun: mane
Plural noun: manes
Past verb: manated
Present simple verb: manate, manates
Present continuous verb: manating
Definition:
1. Superior limb used for grasping, capturing, or performing tasks.
2. Human appendage extending from shoulder (arm) to fingers.
3. Body part capable of fine motor abilities.
4. Extremity used in daily activities.
Significance:
• It defines hands or gripping limbs.
• It emphasizes human capability.
• It identifies anatomical features.
• It avoids Scandinavian-Germanic origins.
• It simplifies descriptions of hands.
• It improves clarity in biological contexts.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, similar to "hand".
Singular noun: mane
Plural noun: manes
Past verb: manated
Present simple verb: manate, manates
Present continuous verb: manating
Examples:
• "Athletes train their manes for agility."
• "Medical professionals examine injured manes."
• "Artists paint elegant manes in portraits."
• "Mechanics depend on strong manes for repairs."
• "Tutors guide youngsters in developing coordinated manes."
• "Athletes train their manes for agility."
• "Medical professionals examine injured manes."
• "Artists paint elegant manes in portraits."
• "Mechanics depend on strong manes for repairs."
• "Tutors guide youngsters in developing coordinated manes."
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Get the mane mug.Used to describe ones hair especially in black culture. Often accompanied by the 🦁 Emoji. Referancing the poofiness or wild untamed shape if an Afro or curly unruly hair. Goes full circle or close to around the head (do not say you have a mane if your hair is silky/ remotely straight, easy to manage, or can comb through it fairly easy without pain or in under a minute, you will be wrong and looked at funny)
1. Ebony: "Girl let me see if I can go tame this Lion's Mane of mine."
2. Ashawnti: "Ever since I went natural my hair so hard to deal with, it a lions mane!"
3. * Ebony's snapchat story* "Time to wash my hair 🦁🦁🦁
2. Ashawnti: "Ever since I went natural my hair so hard to deal with, it a lions mane!"
3. * Ebony's snapchat story* "Time to wash my hair 🦁🦁🦁
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''Hello Sir, do you know what time the buffet starts?''
''Hello Sir, do you know what time the buffet starts?''
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