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As an adjective female

is belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has xx chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).

As a noun female

is one of the female (feminine) sex or gender.

As a proper noun beast is

(biblical) a figure in the book of revelation (apocalypse), often identified with satan or the antichrist.

female

English

Adjective

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  • Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XX chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).
  • * 1987 , Don't Shoot[,] Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia , page 350:
    • A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'
  • Belonging to the feminine (social) gender.
  • (grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
  • * 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:
    • The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female , but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
  • (figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

    • Synonyms

    * feminine * (figuratively) socket

    Coordinate terms

    * intersex * transgender * male * neuter

    Derived terms

    * female-assigned, cisfemale, transfemale

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
  • # A human member of the feminine sex or gender.
  • # An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
  • # (botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

    • Synonyms

    * girl; see also * woman; see also

    See also

    * female genital mutilation * (Symbol for female) * (wikipedia) * sex, gender, gender identity

    References

    * 1000 English basic words

    beast

    English

    (wikipedia beast)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
  • (more specific)  A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  • *
    • Boxer was an enormous beast , nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
  • A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  • (slang) A large and impressive automobile.
  • (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
  • * 1994 , Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)
    • Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts .' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors
  • * 1994 , Adam Sampson, Acts of Abuse: Sex Offenders And the Criminal Justice System (page 83)
    • For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea
  • (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
  • * 2000 , Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon , Berkley (2001), ISBN 9780425180969, page 905:
    • Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
  • * 2006 , Heather Burt, Adam's Peak , Dundurn Press (2006), ISBN 9781550026467, page 114:
    • He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
  • * 2011 , :
    • And, oh, poor Atlas / The world's a beast of a burden / You've been holding up a long time

    Derived terms

    * beastly * saddle beast

    Related terms

    * bestial * bestiary

    See also

    * belluine (suppletive adjective)

    Derived terms

    * beast fable * beast of burden * beast of draft * beast of prey * beastie * beastly * beastmaster * beauty and the beast * king of beasts * lobola-beast * belly of the beast

    Related terms

    * bestial * bestiality * bestiary * * * hartebeest * wildebeest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) great; excellent; powerful
  • * 1999 , "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram'' (on newsgroup ''jaring.pcbase )
    • There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
  • * 2012 , Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits (page 37)
    • Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast .

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