Male vs Doyen - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) A commander in charge of ten men.
The senior, or eldest male member of a group.
* 1997 , Thomas Swan, The Cezanne Chase ,
* 2000 , Steve Fuller, Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times ,
* 2007 , Vanina Bouté, Political Hierarchical Processes among Some Highlanders of Laos'', François Robinne, Mandy Sadan (editors), ''Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia ,
(colloquial) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.
* 1991 , Arif Dirlik, Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution ,
* 2008 July 3, Amanda Schaffer, “The Sex Difference Evangelists”, part 3: “
* 2011 , Maitrii Aung-Thwin, The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma ,
As nouns the difference between male and doyen
is that male is someone of male (masculine) gender: while doyen is (obsolete) a commander in charge of ten men.As a adjective male
is belonging to the sex which produces sperm, which in humans and many other species is the one which has xy chromosomes.male
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.
Synonyms
* boyAntonyms
* femaleSee also
* man * macho * masculine * * sex, gender, gender identityAnagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), , (l), (l), (l) English terms with homophones 1000 English basic words ----doyen
English
Noun
(en noun)page 171,
- At every turn, Collyers's aggressive new management in London was out-maneuvering and out promoting the double doyens of the rarefied art auction world. Old-timers at Collyers referred to Christie's and Sotheby's as “the Cow and the Sow,” lumping them together in frequent attitudes of disdain, in an attempt to make up for decades of being the brunt of bad jokes.
page 383,
- Conant's sense of science's world-historic mission did not especially endear him to Harvard's doyens , most of whom still operated with a liberal arts college model of the university in which the humanities reigned supreme and even the natural sciences were treated more as teaching than research subjects.
page 189,
- On the domain level, two doyens', called “Lords of the Land” were entitled to some further specific prerogatives, including the right to lead rituals on behalf of all the villages of the domain (i.e. the domain of the clan of the ' doyen and, therefore, the clan considered the founder of the oldest village).
page 129,
- Unlike the latter, however, Shifu's seriousness allowed no compromise; his criticism of Zhang ji even brought him into conflict with Wu Zhihui, one of the doyens of anarchism in China.
Mars, Venus, Babies, and Hormones]”, in [[w:Slate (magazine), Slate],
- In an interview, even , another doyen of sex-difference claims, offered up some caution.
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- For these doyens of the field, the Burmese conceptual landscape was a sophisticated and complex array of beliefs, exhibiting the ability of communities to adapt, appropriate, and reshape external influences throughout history.