Big vs Gender - What's the difference?
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Of great size, large.
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*:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line,, with their court of farm and church and clustered village, in dignified seclusion.
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Popular.
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(lb) Adult.
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*1931 , , Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:
*:By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]
(lb) Fat.
(lb) Important or significant.
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*:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
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(lb) Mature, conscientious, principled.
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(lb) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
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Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
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*(and other bibliographic details) (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
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In a loud manner.
In a boasting manner.
In a large amount or to a large extent.
On a large scale, expansively
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An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
(as plural) The big leagues, big time.
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To praise or recommend
to inhabit; occupy
to locate one's self
to build; erect; fashion
to dwell; have a dwelling
One or more kinds of barley, especially (six-rowed barley).
(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.
* 1991 , Greville G. Corbett, Gender (ISBN 052133845X), page 65:
Biological sex: a division into which an organism is placed according to its reproductive functions or organs.
Biological sex: the sum of the biological characteristics by which male and female and other organisms are distinguished.
Identification as male/masculine, female/feminine
* 2007 , Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband (ISBN 0786750545), page 93:
* 2010 , Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age (ISBN 113499950X):
* 2012 , Elizabeth Reis, American Sexual Histories , page 5:
The sociocultural phenomenon of the division of people into various categories such as "male" and "female", with each having associated clothing, roles, stereotypes, etc.
* 1993 , David Spurr, The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration ,
* 2004 , Wenona Mary Giles, Jennifer Hyndman, Sites of violence: gender and conflict zones , page 28:
* 2005 , Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn, Archaeology: The Key Concepts ,
(obsolete) Class; kind.
* circa 1603, Shakespeare, , Act 1, Scene 3:
(sociology) 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.
* 2011 , Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality , page 147:
(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
* 1996 , Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament , page 191:
* 2003 , Reading the Anonymous Female Voice'', in ''The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England , page 244:
(archaic) To engender.
(archaic, or, obsolete) To breed.
* Leviticus 19:19 (KJV):
As nouns the difference between big and gender
is that big is a biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants while gender is (grammar) a division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.As a verb gender is
(sociology) 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 or gender can be (archaic) to engender.big
English
Etymology 1
From a northern (etyl) dialectal term (m), .Adjective
(bigger)The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
Norwich 3-3 Blackburn, passage=It proved a big miss as Hoilett produced a sublime finish into the top corner of the net from 20 yards after evading a couple of challenges in first-half stoppage time.}}
Synonyms
* (of a great size) ample, huge, large, sizeable, stoor, jumbo, massive * (adult) adult, fully grown, grown up * See alsoAntonyms
* (of a great size) little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute * (adult) little, youngDerived terms
* Big Apple * big-ass * big baby * big band * Big Bang * big bath * big beat * Big Ben * Big Bertha * big blind * big bluestem * Big Board * big-boned * big box * big boy/big boys * big break * big brother * Big Brother * big bucks * big business * big C * big cat * big cheese * Big Crunch * Big D * big daddy * big deal * Big Dipper * Big Easy * big enchilada * big end * big fat/big-fat/big phat * big figure * big fish * big fly * Big Four * big game * biggie, no biggie * big girl's blouse * big government * big gun * big H/Big H * big hair * big hand * big head/big-head * big-headed * big-hearted * big house * big idea * big if * big iron * Big Island * big kid * big labor * big-league * big lick * big lie * big lug * big kahuna * Big Mac * big money * big mouth * Big Muddy * big name / big-name * bigness * big O * big O notation * big old/big ole * big one/the big one * big pharma * big picture * Big Q * big rig * Big Rip * big science * big screen * big shagbank * big shot * big shoulder * big six/the big six * Big Six * big sleep * big slick * Big Smoke * big spender * big spring * big stick * Big Sur * big talk * big tent * Big Three * big-ticket * big time/big-time/bigtime * big toe * big top/big-top * big tree * Big Uglies * big up * big wheel * big whoop * big wig/big-wig/bigwig * big-wigged * big wow * great big * hit it big * make it big * /Mr Big/Mister Big * the bigs * too big for one's boots * too big to failAdverb
(bigger)- He's always talking big , but he never delivers.
- He won big betting on the croquet championship.
- You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
- He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (big leagues) major leaguesVerb
(up)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Verb
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
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*gender
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(wikipedia gender)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) gendre, genre, from (etyl) . The verb developed after the noun.Noun
(en noun)- In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender
- the trait is found in both genders
- The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender , and other factors.
- One wife I met at a conference was in a hurry for her husband to have the genital surgery because she worried about his gender and genitals not matching if he were in a car accident,
- Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man, announced in an April 2008 issue of the gay and lesbian news magazine, The Advocate , that he was pregnant. Moreover, he saw no conflict between his gender and his pregnancy.
- Intersex people too challenge the idea that physical sex, not merely gender , is binary – a person must be definitively either one sex or the other.
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- The annals of colonial history offer relatively few such encounters between women, and it may be that gender has created here a marginal space in which something like an actual dialogue is possible between British and Sudanese.
- Gender' does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies, . But these other differentiations are always also gendered, and in turn they help construct what is a man or a woman in any given circumstance. So while ' gender is binary, its components have varied expressions.
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- Even with some adamant processualists, however, gender has made inroads.
- ...plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many...
Usage notes
Derived terms
* agender * bigender * cisgender * gender binary * gender continuum * gender dysphoria * gendered * gender expression * genderfluid * genderfuck * gender identity * gender identity disorder; GID * genderism * genderland * gender presentation * genderqueer; GQ * gender role * gender spectrum * gender studies * gender-variant * third gender * transgender; TGSee also
* (grammar) feminine, masculine, neuter * (sex) female, male, hermaphroditic/hermaphrodite; man, woman, hermaphrodite * androgyne, crossdresser, hijra, kathoey, two-spirit, transsexualVerb
(en verb)- 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).
- 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.
- Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) gendren, genderen, from (etyl) gendrer, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.