They both measure the same thing (temperature!), but use different numbers: Boiling water (at normal pressure) measures 100Â° in Celsius, but 212Â° in Fahrenheit.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. Different approaches developed, each specific to the time and place of a society's slave system. The motivations of slave owners in manumitting slaves were complex and varied.
(third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured) 1  To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. 2  To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver). The farmer manured his fallow field.