Gender vs Race - What's the difference?
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(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.
* 1991 , Greville G. Corbett, Gender (ISBN 052133845X), page 65:
Biological sex: a division into which an organism is placed according to its reproductive functions or organs.
Biological sex: the sum of the biological characteristics by which male and female and other organisms are distinguished.
Identification as male/masculine, female/feminine
* 2007 , Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband (ISBN 0786750545), page 93:
* 2010 , Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age (ISBN 113499950X):
* 2012 , Elizabeth Reis, American Sexual Histories , page 5:
The sociocultural phenomenon of the division of people into various categories such as "male" and "female", with each having associated clothing, roles, stereotypes, etc.
* 1993 , David Spurr, The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration ,
* 2004 , Wenona Mary Giles, Jennifer Hyndman, Sites of violence: gender and conflict zones , page 28:
* 2005 , Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn, Archaeology: The Key Concepts ,
(obsolete) Class; kind.
* circa 1603, Shakespeare, , Act 1, Scene 3:
(sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
* 2011 , Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality , page 147:
(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
* 1996 , Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament , page 191:
* 2003 , Reading the Anonymous Female Voice'', in ''The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England , page 244:
(archaic) To engender.
(archaic, or, obsolete) To breed.
* Leviticus 19:19 (KJV):
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Several horses run in a horse race , and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
A progressive movement toward a goal.
A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
* Francis Bacon
Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
* Milton
Travels, runs, or journeys. (rfex)
The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
To compete against in such a race.
To move or drive at high speed.
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* 1891 (December) (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Man with the Twisted Lip :
A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common heritage or characteristics:
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
#* 1913', Martin Van Buren Knox, ''The religious life of the Anglo-Saxon '''race
# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
# (controversial usage) One of the categories from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See Wikipedia's article on .
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# A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage .
#* 1898 , Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology , page 15)
(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; (an informal term for) a subspecies.
A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with an implied parallel to animal breeding or evolutionary science).
Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
Characteristic quality or disposition.
* Shakespeare
* Sir W. Temple
A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
* 1842 , Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual , page 433:
English terms with multiple etymologies
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As verbs the difference between gender and race
is that gender is (sociology) to assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives) that express a certain gender or gender can be (archaic) to engender while race is .As a noun gender
is (grammar) a division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.As an adjective race is
distinguished; classy.gender
English
(wikipedia gender)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) gendre, genre, from (etyl) . The verb developed after the noun.Noun
(en noun)- In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender
- the trait is found in both genders
- The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender , and other factors.
- One wife I met at a conference was in a hurry for her husband to have the genital surgery because she worried about his gender and genitals not matching if he were in a car accident,
- Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man, announced in an April 2008 issue of the gay and lesbian news magazine, The Advocate , that he was pregnant. Moreover, he saw no conflict between his gender and his pregnancy.
- Intersex people too challenge the idea that physical sex, not merely gender , is binary – a person must be definitively either one sex or the other.
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- The annals of colonial history offer relatively few such encounters between women, and it may be that gender has created here a marginal space in which something like an actual dialogue is possible between British and Sudanese.
- Gender' does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies, . But these other differentiations are always also gendered, and in turn they help construct what is a man or a woman in any given circumstance. So while ' gender is binary, its components have varied expressions.
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- Even with some adamant processualists, however, gender has made inroads.
- ...plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many...
Usage notes
Derived terms
* agender * bigender * cisgender * gender binary * gender continuum * gender dysphoria * gendered * gender expression * genderfluid * genderfuck * gender identity * gender identity disorder; GID * genderism * genderland * gender presentation * genderqueer; GQ * gender role * gender spectrum * gender studies * gender-variant * third gender * transgender; TGSee also
* (grammar) feminine, masculine, neuter * (sex) female, male, hermaphroditic/hermaphrodite; man, woman, hermaphrodite * androgyne, crossdresser, hijra, kathoey, two-spirit, transsexualVerb
(en verb)- In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).
- At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly.
- Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) gendren, genderen, from (etyl) gendrer, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
race
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) and (etyl) (m).Noun
(racing)- The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.
- We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.
- After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race .
- The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
- My race' of glory run, and ' race of shame.
Derived terms
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- "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), of uncertain origin. According to philologist Gianfranco Contini,Devoto, Giacomo, Avviamento all'etimologia italiana , Mondadori. the Italian word comes from (etyl) (m) . Some authorities suggest derivation from (etyl) (m), (m), from earlier (m), . This, however, is difficult to support, since Italian (m) predates the Spanish word.Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza." Another possible source is (etyl) . A fourth possibility is that the Italian razza'' derives from (etyl) ratio through an unattested intermediate form *''razzo .Noun
(wikipedia race)- Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.
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- The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race .
- A treaty was concluded between the race''' of elves and the '''race of men.
- There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]
- For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.
- The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
- Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.
- a race of heaven
- Is it [the wine] of the right race ?
- And now I give my sensual race the rein.
- Some great race of fancy or judgment.
Synonyms
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(Terms derived from the noun "race") * * * * * *Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put the races of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.
