Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having human form or characteristics.
- noun A being having human form or characteristics.
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- adjective Having the
appearance orcharacteristics of ahuman . - noun A being having the appearance or characteristics of a human.
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- noun an automaton that resembles a human being
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term humanoid describes a general conformation to the traits of humanity, but implies an expansion of criteria to possibly include other species than homo sapiens sapiens.
AMERICAN DIGEST 2009
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Thank god making him humanoid is a bad idea but he does looks awesome (Kinda like apocalypse)
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Galactus, our big blender in the sky! 2007
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Thank god making him humanoid is a bad idea but he does looks awesome (Kinda like apocalypse)
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Galactus, our big blender in the sky! 2007
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That’s why most of the time they go around in humanoid form.
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(Unless it’s one of those scripted “they’re all asleep if you make Stealth checks” rooms.) No humanoid is ever encumbered (nor, seemingly, do they carry about the food and water and supplies that they likely would need to survive if they were a PC).
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On a slight tangent, according to the Transformers Encyclopedia (yes, I’m THAT big of a nerd), the robots with tiny alternate forms [Megatron, Soundwave ftw] are basically hollow in humanoid form.
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The Series 800 combat chassis when not intended for infiltrator work and fielded without an organic infiltration coating is more properly identified as a humanoid hunter-killer (HK) and are designated with a shorter 4 character alpha numeric code.
Roland Kickinger Filling in for Schwarzenegger in Terminator Salvation « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The appearance of these Star People is what is known as humanoid feline entities or paschats.
AVATAR - Cinematic Parallel with our Current World Experience 2010
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Good interview, but I was wonder about this bit: "For instance, SF created the idea of humanoid robots that would be jacks-of-all-trades, and largely ignored the idea of specialty robots that only did one thing, be it weld auto frames, aid bomb disposal teams, or bake bread on kitchen table tops."
I Am Heard From Yet Again Walter Jon Williams 2008
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If you can reason like a humanoid, which is not likely from neocons, then you will be taken seriously.
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