MAN-MADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does man-made mean? 

• MAN-MADE (adjective)
  The adjective MAN-MADE has 1 sense:

1. not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially

  Familiarity information: MAN-MADE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAN-MADE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially

Synonyms:

man-made; semisynthetic; synthetic

Context example:

synthetic leather

Similar:

artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

 Context examples 

It might also be man-made, like a bioterrorist attack or chemical spill.

(Disaster Preparation and Recovery, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

It comes from natural and man-made sources.

(Electromagnetic radiation, NCI Dictionary)

Natural and man-made disasters create refugee populations with immediate and long-term health problems.

(International Health, NIH)

Because a man-made hip is smaller than the original joint, the ball can come out of its socket.

(Hip Replacement, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Antioxidants are man-made or natural substances that may prevent or delay some types of cell damage.

(Antioxidants, NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

A description for something that exists in or is produced by nature, and is not artificial or man-made.

(Natural, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): Constraints: Place may be natural or man-made.

(Place, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Food produced without the use of man-made fertilizer, drugs that increase growth, or drugs that kill insects, bacteria, or other living things.

(Organic food, NCI Dictionary)

When you have a total knee replacement, the surgeon removes damaged cartilage and bone from the surface of your knee joint and replaces them with a man-made surface of metal and plastic.

(Knee Replacement, NIH)

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), can be considered a type of man-made gene amplification process.

(Gene Amplification Technique, NCI Thesaurus)