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Doug⋅las

  [duhg-luhs]
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–noun
1. Sir James (“the Black Douglas”), 1286–1330, Scottish military leader.
2. James, 2nd Earl of, 1358?–88, Scottish military leader.
3. Kirk (Issur Danielovitch Demsky), born 1916, U.S. actor.
4. Lloyd C(as⋅sel)  [kas-uhl] , 1877–1951, U.S. novelist and clergyman.
5. Michael, born 1944, U.S. actor and producer (son of Kirk Douglas).
6. Stephen A(rnold), 1813–61, U.S. political leader and statesman.
7. William O(r⋅ville)  [awr-vil] , 1898–1980, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–75.
8. a city on and the capital of the Isle of Man: resort. 19,897.
9. a city in SE Arizona. 13,058.
10. a town in central Georgia. 10,980.
11. a male given name: from a Scottish word meaning “black water.”

Man

  [man]
–noun
Isle of, an island of the British Isles, in the Irish Sea. 58,773; 227 sq. mi. (588 sq. km). Capital: Douglas.
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Doug·las   (dŭg'ləs)   
A municipal borough of southeast Isle of Man, England, on the Irish Sea. It is a popular seaside resort and the most important city on the island. Population: 26,200.
Douglas, Kirk Originally Issur Danielovitch. Born 1916.  
American actor noted for his portrayal of tough characters in films such as Champion (1949) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1953). He won an honorary Academy Award in 1996.
Douglas, Stephen Arnold Called "the Little Giant." 1813-1861.  
American politician who served as U.S. representative (1843-1847) and senator (1847-1861) from Illinois. He proposed legislation that allowed individual territories to determine whether they would allow slavery (1854) and in the senatorial campaign of 1858 engaged Abraham Lincoln in a famous series of debates.
Douglas, William Orville 1898-1980.  
American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939-1975).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
man

  1. n.
    one's friend; a buddy, not necessarily male. (Also a term of address.) : Look, man, take it easy!
  2. exclam.
    Wow! (Usually Man!) : Man, what a bundle!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

man  (v.)
c.1122, "to furnish (a fort, ship, etc.) with a company of men," from man (n.). Meaning "to take up a designated position on a ship" is first recorded 1697.

Douglas 
family name, later male personal name, from Gael. Dubh glas "the dark water," name of a place in Lanarkshire. Douglas fir named for David Douglas (1798-1834), Scottish botanist who first recorded it in Pacific Northwest, 1825. Douglas scheme, Douglas plan, Douglassite, etc. refer to "social credit" economic model put forth by British engineer Maj. Clifford Hugh Douglas (1879-1952).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: man
Pronunciation: 'man
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural men /'men/
: a bipedal primate mammal of the genusHomo (H. sapiens) that is anatomically related to larger more advanced apes comprising the family Pongidae but is distinguished by greater development of the brain with resulting capacityfor articulate speech and abstract reasoning, by marked erectness of body carriage with corresponding alteration of muscular balance and loss of prehensile powers of the foot, and by shortening of thearm with accompanying increase in thumb size and ability to place the thumb next to each of the fingers, that is usually considered to occur in a variable number of freely interbreeding races, and thatis the sole recent representative of the natural family Hominidae; broadly : any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

DOUGLAS language
An early system on the IBM 701.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1994-12-07)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Encyclopedia

Douglas

municipal borough and capital, since 1869, of the Isle of Man, one of the British Isles. It lies on the island's east coast, 80 mi (130 km) northwest of Liverpool (across the Irish Sea). Low hills encircle the town, penetrated by the valley of the combined Dhoo (Manx, "dark") and Glass (Manx, "light") rivers, from which it takes its name.

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