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Degender vs Depender - What's the difference?

degender | depender |

As a verb degender

is to degenerate.

As a noun depender is

an agent that depends on another agent, the dependee; the subject of a dependency, a dependent (used in agent-oriented programming.

degender

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* degener (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To degenerate.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.prologue:
  • *:And if then those may any worse be red, / They into that ere long will be degendered .

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strip of gender; to make genderless or gender-neutral.
  • * 2005 , R. W. Connell, Masculinities (page 232)
    • It follows that a degendering strategy, an attempt to dismantle hegemonic masculinity, is unavoidable

    See also

    * ungender

    References

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    depender

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (programming) An agent that depends on another agent, the dependee; the subject of a dependency, a dependent (used in (agent-oriented programming))

    • Usage notes

    Technical term, not widely used in software engineering outside of (agent-oriented programming); the common term dependent is used instead. In agent-oriented programming, the antonym is dependee, though there is no common language equivalent (other metaphors are used instead, such as parent/child). Further, the circumlocutions “A depends on B” and “B is depended on by A” are used for clarity.

    Synonyms

    * dependant, dependent

    Antonyms

    * dependee

    Related terms

    * dependency * dependum

    Related terms

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