Male vs Love - 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.
(label) Strong affection.
# An intense feeling of affection and care towards another person.
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# A deep or abiding liking for something.
# A profound and caring attraction towards someone.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(colloquial)
(euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
*1986, Ben Elton & al., ":
*:—What think you, my lord, of... love ?
*:—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
* 1664 , (Robert Boyle), Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours,
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba .
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
* 2013 February 26, and (Nate Ruess), (Just Give Me a Reason) :
To need, thrive on.
(colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like .
To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
* John 3:16
* Matthew: 37-38
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
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, title= To derive delight from a fact or situation.
To lust for.
(euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)
To praise; commend.
To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
(racquet sports) Zero, no score.
* The Field
* John Betjeman, A Subaltern's Love Song
As nouns the difference between male and love
is that male is tip (tip), summit, top (tree) while love is money.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 ----love
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like. The verb is from (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
- He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
- Open the temple gates unto my love .
- Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love -Hood.
Synonyms
* (sense) baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird * (term of address) mate, lover. darling, sweetyAntonyms
* (strong affection) hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite * (absence of love) indifferenceVerb
(lov)- I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.
- Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- You shall love' the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall ' love your neighbor as yourself.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
Antonyms
* hate, despiseDerived terms
* all's fair in love and war * cupboard love * in love * I love you * fall in love * first love * lady love * love affair * love at first sight * love bird/lovebird * love bite/lovebite * love bomb * love bug * lovebunny * love child * loved-up * love egg * love feast * love game * love grass * love handle * love-hate * love-in * love-in-a-mist * love is blind * love life * lovely * love-making * love match * love nest * love potion * lover * love rat * lovertine * love seat * loveship * love-shyness * lovesick * love song * lovestone * love story * love tap * love toy * love triangle * lovey-dovey * loving kindness * loyal love * make love * unrequited love * no love lost * puppy love * tough love * true love * unconditional loveSee also
* charityEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
(lov)Etymology 3
From the phrase Neither for love nor for money , meaning "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the (etyl) term , due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted.Noun
(-)- So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
- He won the match by three sets to love .
- Love -thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, / The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, / With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, / I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.