Female vs Requestress - What's the difference?
female | requestress |
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.
(rare) A female that requests; a female requester.
* 1920 : Cyrus Townsend Brady (?), The Ring and the Man ,
* 1979 : Ray Coryton Hutchinson [aut.], Martyn Skinner [aut.], and Rupert Hart-Davis [ed.], Two Men of Letters: Correspondence Between R.C. Hutchinson, Novelist, and Martyn Skinner, Poet, 1957–1974 ,
As nouns the difference between female and requestress
is that female is one of the female (feminine) sex or gender while requestress is (rare) a female that requests; a female requester.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).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 wordsrequestress
English
Noun
page 37(Jarrolds)
- It amazed Gormly too, when requests and requester?—?or should I say requestress ??—?were both promptly referred to him.
page 173(Joseph; ISBN 0718118413, 9780718118419)
- Some time during the summer I produced, by request, a ballad for a Girl Guides’ Pageant on the subject of Drake’s Cannon-Ball, a local legend. It was (also by request) in the stanza of ‘Young Lochinvar’, and occupied me three days. The requestress was in raptures, but then she doesn’t know a trochee from an iambus (nor, for that matter – like de la Mare – do I).