Male vs Lame - 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.
Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
(by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
* Barrow
* Shakespeare
(slang) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
(slang) Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.
(slang) Strangely corny or sweet to an extent.
to cause a person or animal to become lame
* 1877', Anna Sewell, ''Black Beauty'': And if you don't want to ' lame your horse you must look sharp and get them [stones stuck in hooves] out quickly.
* 1913 ,
As nouns the difference between male and lame
is that male is tip (tip), summit, top (tree) while lame is sea.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 ----lame
English
(wikipedia lame)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- a lame leg, arm or muscle
- a lame endeavour
- O, most lame and impotent conclusion!
- He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.
- He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.
- I told him not to bring me flowers, so he brought a bunch of carrots instead. It was lame but it made me smile.
Usage notes
Referring to a person without a disability as “lame” is offensive to many as it suggests a derogatory characterization of the physical condition from which the term was derived.Synonyms
* (sense, unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs) crippled * (moving with difficulty) * (sense) hobbling, limping, inefficient, imperfect * (sense) unconvincing, unbelievable * uncool, unfunny, uninteresting, irrelevantAntonyms
* (sense, unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs) * (moving with difficulty) * (sense) efficient, perfect * (sense) convincing, believable * cool, funny, interesting, relevantDerived terms
* lame duck * lamage * lamebrain * lamely * lameness * lamestream * lame-oVerb
(lam)- Now her soul felt lamed in itself. It was her hope that was struck.