human
part of speech
noun (a human, humans); adjective (human, the human body)
meaning for a pupil
1) A human is a person: a man, woman or child. tree →
2) Human describes things to do with people: the human body, human rights. tree →
3) Human can mean having normal feelings and weaknesses: It is only human to make mistakes. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, humans are mammals and part of the animal kingdom (scientific name Homo sapiens); lessons study the human body and its organs. In history and geography: how humans live and change the world. In stories, robots, aliens and animals often want to be human. Phrases: human being, human body, human race, human rights, only human.
examples
- Humans need food, water and sleep. tree →
- The human body has 206 bones. tree →
- Dogs can hear sounds that humans cannot. tree →
- Making mistakes is only human. tree →
- Every human has the right to be safe. tree →
- The robot wanted to be human. tree →
- Humans have lived on Earth for a very long time. tree →
- Is that a human footprint? tree →
- "Ah, wretch of a human being! tree →
note
Countable as a noun. Do not confuse with humane (kind, causing as little pain as possible). Humans are animals in science, even though in everyday speech «animals» often means other animals.
In the corpora
- Rights are things every person should have just for being human; children have special rights under a United Nations agreement.
- Bots often give the most common human answer, so many of them pick 7 when asked for a number from 1 to 10.
- Many things people love depend on bodies, feelings and being human, such as watching people play sport.
- It is a myth that people came from chimps: chimps and humans are cousins who both changed from a common ancestor.
- A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell receptors, while a human nose has about 5 or 6 million.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «human» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.