noun
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A human being, whether man, woman or child.
example
Humans share common ancestors with other apes.
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verb
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To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
adjective
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(notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
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Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
example
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Examples of human in a Sentence
No human could've caused this.
Only a handful of human minds can comprehend his work.
The ability of science and technology to improve human life is known to us.
To be perfectly clear, I am not saying the Internet and technology will solve every human ill.
Robots are free from the physical limits our human bodies have.
We are so degraded that we cannot speak simply of the necessary functions of human nature.
So, spare me your cute robots with human names.
Although the original mutation was not caused by human activity, human activity preserved and perpetuated it.
Any task that could be done a machine is, by definition, dehumanizing to a human being.
A full-scale, no-holds-barred, nuclear-missiles-raining-down kind of world war would profoundly change the course of human history for all time.
They played with the lambs in the field and saw no human being but the shepherd.
She had killed a human being.
I believe she is the purest-minded human ever in existence....
They are human beings too.
I felt reasonably human though laughing remained a no-no and the pills were necessary desert.
I knew no human saw me that night and yet the dogs of police received information on me and began snapping at my heels!
But the most luxuriously housed has little to boast of in this respect, nor need we trouble ourselves to speculate how the human race may be at last destroyed.
Does human activity cause the planet to warm?
He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice--idleness and superstition, and only two virtues--activity and intelligence.
When the cost of recording all the data is zero, the cost of processing it is zero, and the cost of accessing it zero, then the many sciences, especially human health, will be democratized.
It is not presently available for human consumption.
The human mind is so wonderful and so versatile.
If he had not taken upon himself the responsibility of Laura Bridgman's education and led her out of the pit of Acheron back to her human inheritance, should I be a sophomore at Radcliffe College to-day--who can say?
It is human, it is divine, carrion.
Even acknowledging that human rights exist is a great advance of civilization.
But let's adopt the cynic's view for a moment and assume people in these corporations are chiefly concerned about their financial benefit, not about human suffering, when it comes to war.
She had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race.
Though there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul.
Jobs done by people will be only the ones that require uniquely human capabilities to do.
It was his view that "the attainment of human rights in the fullest sense cannot be achieved so long as hundreds of millions of poverty-stricken people lack the basic necessities for life."
To elevate food to the status of a human right does not require government to administer it—far from it.
It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips;--not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.
How could any human be so heartless to slay an infant?
We call these rights "human rights" because they apply to every single person on the planet by virtue of simply being alive.
New experiences and events call forth new ideas and stir men to ask questions unthought of before, and seek a definite answer in the depths of human knowledge.
By declaring a pretty broad range of things worth killing and dying for, we say that each of those is more precious to us than human life.
At that point, the iffy parts of human history are behind us and it is blue skies and clean sailing ahead.
Think of how a few thousand years of human civilization got us to a certain amount of computational power.
All that she is, all that she has done, can be explained directly, except such things in every human being as never can be explained.
She does not, it would seem, prove the existence of spirit without matter, or of innate ideas, or of immortality, or anything else that any other human being does not prove.
Its warm touch seemed so like a human caress, I really thought it was a sentient being, capable of loving and protecting me.
We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
And this human feeling dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter.
Natasha remained silent, from shyness Marya Dmitrievna supposed, but really because she disliked anyone interfering in what touched her love of Prince Andrew, which seemed to her so apart from all human affairs that no one could understand it.
Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind.
In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires.
They all raised their heads to listen, and out of the forest into the bright firelight stepped two strangely clad human figures clinging to one another.
I have to have a human mother.
Anything different doesn't seem as human to us and we instinctively recoil from it.
We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter.