Gay vs Trans - What's the difference?
gay | trans |
, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
. Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
* 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
* 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
(chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.
(cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.
(colloquial) Transgender, transsexual.
An umbrella term that refers to all the identities, other then cisgender, that are within the gender identity spectrum.
As nouns the difference between gay and trans
is that gay is nape while trans is .As a verb gay
is to crow.As an adjective trans is
(chemistry) in (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.gay
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
- "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
- "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -
Anagrams
*trans
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Adjective
(-)- the trans effect is the labilization of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands
