From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmanifestman‧i‧fest1 /ˈmænəfest/ ●○○ verb [transitive] formal 1 SHOW A FEELING OR ATTITUDEto show a feeling, attitude etc The shareholders have manifested their intention to sell the shares.manifest something in/as/through something A dog’s protective instincts are manifested in increased alertness.2 → manifest itself→ See Verb table
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manifest• Mountain sickness is usually manifested as headache and tiredness.• Classical tardive dyskinesia is manifested by the insidious onset of oral-lingual-buccal dyskinesia.• They also disagree on how functions are manifested in literary language.• This problem manifests itself when a student forgets to bring home her books or remembers the books but forgets the homework assignments.• Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord due to vitamin B12 deficiency is a treatable condition manifesting sensory ataxia.• For the character to know and demonstrate their doom, their body must physically manifest the flaw through an impairment.• Originally Delphi manifested the Goddess of Prophecy in a vaporous cave where fumes induced visionary trances.• They manifested themselves particularly in language.• How you manifest your aspects is your choice entirely.manifestmanifest2 adjective formal OBVIOUSplain and easy to see SYN obvious, patent a manifest error of judgmentbe made/become manifest (=be clearly shown) Their devotion to God is made manifest in ritual prayer. —manifestly adverb a manifestly unfair systemExamples from the Corpus
manifest• As in Prague, Warsaw and East Berlin in those days, people power has been manifest.• It is then that the full impact of Cobra power is manifest.• On the dang I thought of him as an imposing man in whose face a heightened intelligence and authority was manifest.• That is, it studies the relation between the significances of a text, and the linguistic characteristics in which they are manifest.• The mountaintop offers different information-there some grand order seems both manifest and enormous, far larger than the purely human world.• In the case of manifest content there is no real problem.• The doctrine of manifest destiny was distinct from the imperialist dynamic that flourished around the turn of the century.• The educational system is a manifest failure.• That vision was made manifest in the Ford Motor Company.be made/become manifest• Now the suspected subservience of the judiciary to the politicians seemed to be made manifest.• Through the actions and attitudes of struggling individuals, the true costs of self-defeating organizational behavior are made manifest.• The relationship was made manifest at the life crisis ceremonials of partner lineages.• That vision was made manifest in the Ford Motor Company.• We believe that results can only be properly evaluated if the problems connected with the study are made manifest rather than concealed.manifestmanifest3 noun [countable] a list of passengers or goods carried on a ship, plane, or train the ship’s cargo manifestExamples from the Corpus
manifest• the flight's passenger manifest• And I can't help seeing the manifests - in any case, I've always been interested in them.From Longman Business Dictionarymanifestman‧i‧fest /ˈmænəfest/ noun [countable]TRANSPORT an official list of the goods being carried on a ship or aircraftcomputerized cargo manifestsBefore each international flight, computers scan the passenger manifest (=the list of passengers travelling on a ship or aircraft).Origin manifest2 (1300-1400) Latin manifestus “seized by the hand” 