Crossword clues for manning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manned (m[a^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Manning.]
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To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
See how the surly Warwick mans the wall !
--Shak.They man their boats, and all their young men arm.
--Waller. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify. ``Theodosius having manned his soul with proper reflections.''
--Addison.To tame, as a hawk. [R.]
--Shak.To furnish with a servant or servants. [Obs.]
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To wait on as a manservant. [Obs.]
--Shak.Note: In ``Othello,'' V. ii. 270, the meaning is uncertain, being, perhaps: To point, to aim, or to manage.
To man a yard (Naut.), to send men upon a yard, as for furling or reefing a sail.
To man the yards (Naut.), to station men on the yards as a salute or mark of respect.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of man English)
WordNet
n. an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: adult male] [ant: woman]
someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn: serviceman, military man, military personnel] [ant: civilian]
the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"
all of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind]
any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae [syn: homo, human being, human]
a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man" [ant: woman]
a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman]
one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Isle of Man]
game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" [syn: piece]
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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 702
Land area (2000): 2.387928 sq. miles (6.184705 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006877 sq. miles (0.017811 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.394805 sq. miles (6.202516 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48945
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.908642 N, 95.063218 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51455
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Headwords:
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Housing Units (2000): 1727
Land area (2000): 2.408572 sq. miles (6.238172 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.408572 sq. miles (6.238172 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44350
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.693998 N, 80.215408 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Manning (aka Mannion, Manning) is a family name.
Manning is a family name.
Manning may also refer to:
Usage examples of "manning".
Three elves manning a ballista fell under the scro onslaught, one elf tumbling over a rail to fall into the phlogiston like a limp doll.
Sarah Smith, Kelly Link, Justine Larbalestier, Terri Windling, Anne Hudson, Paula Kate Marmor, Eve Sweetser, Alex Madonik, Shweta Narayan, Elizabeth Wein, and Deborah Manning.
Ship Control Team--The watch standers manning the Ship Control Panel, including the Sternplanesman, the Helmsman, and the Diving Officer.
Manning, I daresay there are no houses with reputations as unimpeached as our own.
The fact that the Asturian archers were shooting from the top of a very high wall added more distance to the range of their bows, and the effect of their arrows devastated the Thulls manning the siege engines.
Boyle backstage in that dressing room, you think he was trying to kill Manning?
Jackson, watching him curiously and probably trying to fathom his thoughts, was at the tiller and the rest of the men who had been with him at Cartagena were manning the oars.
The only people left in the building should be the duty traffic controlman and one or two assistants manning the tower, consoles on the floor upstairs.
Hammond had spoken to the night-duty officer manning the emergency line at the CBW Civilian Defense Unit at Dugway, Utah.
He arranged communication and transportation for the ricin plotters, and he recruited the crew manning the Exo scout.
Dante, Augustus Manning will see to it that all publishing contracts between Harvard and Ticknor and Fields are canceled.
On the gunhouses, which houses the gun-breeches and the loading mechanism and the men manning them, she carried eleven inches of armour-plate.
It was becoming the normal day now, half the troops manning the front lines, the best marksmen in the units sighting down their muskets, waiting for something, anything, some piece of motion.
Sixteen years ago Greg Manning was a bit overextended, and the Prometheus project needed an immediate infusion of cash.
I understand the observers are manning the space prober in rotating shifts.