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Gender
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- 1 Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
"This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot."
- 1 Class; kind. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"[…]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…]"
- 2 An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
- 3 the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles wordnet
- 4 Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable
"the gene is activated in both genders"
- 5 a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness wordnet
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- 6 Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.) countable, uncountable
"I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves along gender lines is a wonderful and uniquely human phenomena."
- 7 A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. countable, uncountable
"The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity."
- 8 Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”). countable, uncountable
"143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...] 1st.--Of the Gender. 144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs."
- 9 The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type). countable, uncountable
"Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male."
- 1 To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
"In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2)."
- 2 To engender. archaic
"[…] Abraham had two ſonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the fleſh: but hee of the freewoman, was by promiſe. Which things are an Allegorie; for theſe are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. […] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all."
- 3 To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
"At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly."
- 4 To breed. archaic, obsolete
"Yee ſhall keepe my Statutes: Thou ſhalt not let thy cattel gender with a diuerſe kinde: Thou ſhalt not ſowe thy field with mingled ſeed: Neither ſhall a garment mingled of linnen and woollen come vpon thee."
Etymology
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
From Middle English gendren, genderen, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.
Borrowed from Indonesian gender, from Javanese ꦒꦼꦤ꧀ꦢꦺꦂ (gendèr), from Old Javanese gĕnder.
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