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How to sign: a human being
"there was too much for one person to do";
Similiar / Same: person, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
Categories: being, causal agency, causal agent, cause, organism
Within this category: abomination, abstainer, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, African, amateur, Amerindian, anomaly, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, Aquarius, Aries, arrogator, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, balker, bather, beard, bedfellow, best, biter, Black, blond, bodybuilder, bomber, brunet, bullfighter, buster, Cancer, candidate, capitalist, Capricorn, captor, case, cashier, celebrant, chameleon, changer, charmer, child, chutzpanik, closer, clumsy person, collector, color-blind person, combatant, commoner, communicator, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, contestant, convert, copycat, counter, coward, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, dancer, dead person, debaser, debtor, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, differentiator, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, divider, domestic partner, double, dresser, dribbler, drug user, ectomorph, effecter, Elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enrollee, entertainer, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, face, faddist, faller, fastener, female, fiduciary, first-rater, follower, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, Gemini, Gentile, good guy, good person, granter, greeter, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, hater, heterosexual, homosexual, homunculus, hope, hoper, huddler, hugger, immune, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, Jat, Jew, jewel, juvenile, killer, kneeler, knocker, knower, large person, Latin, laugher, leader, learner, left-hander, Leo, Libra, life, lightning rod, linguist, literate, liver, longer, loose cannon, lover, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, manipulator, man jack, masturbator, measurer, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, mother hen, mutilator, namer, namesake, national, native, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonsmoker, nonworker, nude, nurser, occultist, old maid, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, partner, party, passer, peer, perceiver, percher, personage, personification, person of color, perspirer, philosopher, picker, Pisces, pisser, planner, powderer, precursor, preserver, primitive, propositus, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, quarter, quitter, radical, realist, rectifier, redhead, registrant, relative, reliever, religionist, repeater, rescuer, rester, restrainer, revenant, rich person, right-hander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, rusher, Sagittarius, scientist, Scorpio, scratcher, second-rater, seeder, seeker, self, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex object, shaker, signer, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, Slav, slave, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sounding board, sphinx, spitter, sprawler, spurner, squinter, stifler, stigmatic, stooper, struggler, subject, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tapper, Taurus, tempter, termer, terror, testator, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tiger, toucher, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, trier, tyrant, undoer, unfortunate, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, vanisher, victim, Victorian, Virgo, visionary, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, ward, warrior, watcher, weakling, White, wiggler, winker, withholder, witness, worker, yawner
How to sign: being or characteristic of a single thing or person
"individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways";
See also: separate
How to sign: separate and distinct from others of the same kind
"mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis";
Similiar / Same: case-by-case, item-by-item
