What is the difference between female and male?
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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:
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:
(figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
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.
Belonging to the sex which typically has testes, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XY chromosomes.
* 1969 , Human afflictions and chromosomal aberrations , page 245:
* 1995 , Nancy Condee, Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-century Russia , page 113:
Belonging to the masculine (social) gender.
Pertaining to or associated with men, or male animals; masculine.
* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, page 289:
* 2009 December 11, The Guardian :
(biology) Inherently characteristic of the male of a species.
* 2009 September 11, The Guardian :
(grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
* 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:
(figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a "female" counterpart, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
# A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
#* 2008 , Linda Goldman, Coming Out, Coming in: Nurturing the Well-being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society (ISBN 0415958245), page 27:
#* 2013 , Emery & Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics (ISBN 0123838355), chapter 88, page 6:
# An animal of the sex that has testes.
# A plant of the masculine sex.
Male is a coordinate term of female.
Male is a antonym of female.
In figuratively terms the difference between female and male
is that female is having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting while male is of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a "female" counterpart, as in a connector or pipe fitting.As adjectives the difference between female and male
is that 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) while male is belonging to the sex which typically has testes, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XY chromosomes.As nouns the difference between female and male
is that female is one of the female (feminine) sex or gender while male is one of the male (masculine) sex or gender.As a proper noun Malé is
the capital of the Maldives.female
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.'
- 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.
Synonyms
* feminine * (figuratively) socketCoordinate terms
* intersex * transgender * male * neuterDerived terms
* female-assigned, cisfemale, transfemaleNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* girl; see also * woman; see alsoSee also
* female genital mutilation * (Symbol for female) * (wikipedia) * sex, gender, gender identityReferences
* 1000 English basic wordsmale
English
(wikipedia male)Adjective
(-)- On the one hand, the observation of Shah et al''. (1961) of male pseudohermaphroditism with XX karyotype and intra-abdominal testicles. Only the skin was studied so that a possibility of mosaicism cannot be dismissed. Two other XX male subjects (Court Brown ''et al. , 1964) raise a similar problem.
- The masked woman's lips do not move, but her voice is heard again, "And then, awakened by a daring kiss..."
- Behind the mask[,] the woman's eyes flicker open as a male voice is heard off-screen,
- In the powder rooms of the world's great hotels[,] when male lesbians meet they show each other their wedding rings and burst out laughing.
- "While No Doubt are avid fans of the Rolling Stones and even have performed in concerts with them, the Character Manipulation Feature results in an unauthorised performance by the Gwen Stefani avatar in a male voice boasting about having sex with prostitutes," the band's lawyers alleged.
- "It's very complex area," said Bowen-Simpkins, a consultant gynaecologist. "The male hormone is what gives bulk to muscles and bones so they are at an advantage."
- 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.
Synonyms
* manly, masculine * (figuratively) plug, pinCoordinate terms
* transgender * intersex * androgynous * female * neuterDerived terms
* male-assigned, cismale, transmaleNoun
(en noun)- a biologically female person who identifies as a male .
- Among 46,XX males not having genital ambiguity, 80% show SRY as noted.
