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manning

manning is the present participle and gerund of man.

Meaning of man

Verb

man (third-person singular simple present mans, present participle manning, simple past and past participle manned)

  1. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
    • The ship was manned with a small crew.
  2. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
    • Man the machine guns!
  3. (dated, possibly, reflexive) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
    • “To stay open, the senior enlisted leader of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Forward said he needed people to cover security,” Duncan wrote. “Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) Pilots, maintainers and support personnel donned their vests, helmets and M-4 rifles and manned defensive fighting positions.”2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To wait on, attend to or escort.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

See all 41 meanings of man

Proper noun capitalized: Manning

Manning

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. A town in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.
  3. A river in New South Wales, Australia.
  4. A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
  5. A town in Upper Austria, Austria.
  6. A city in Carroll County, Iowa.
  7. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Kansas.
  8. A census-designated place, the county seat of Dunn County, North Dakota.
  9. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon.
  10. A city, the county seat of Clarendon County, South Carolina.
  11. A ghost town in Angelina County, Texas.

Words formed from manning

Phrases with manning

Questions about manning

What does manning mean?
Manning means a surname from Irish.
What is manning the present participle and gerund of?
Manning is the present participle and gerund of man.
What part of speech is manning?
Manning is a proper noun.

Words near manning in the dictionary

  1. mannify
  2. mannifying
  3. mannikin
  4. mannikins
  5. Mannin
  6. manning
  7. Manning criteria
  8. manning down
  9. Manning formula
  10. manning it out
  11. Manning Point

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Adapted from Wiktionary: manning (page history and authors); Manning (page history and authors); man (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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