What is the difference between neuter and male?
neuter | male |
(archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
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(grammar) Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex.
(grammar) Intransitive
(biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
(grammar) The neuter gender.
(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
(biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
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(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
* 1820 , M. Santagnello, A Dictionary of the Peculiarities of the Italian Language , G. and W. B. Whittaker,
* 1847 , (Brian Houghton Hodgson), Essay the First; On the Kocch, Bódo and Dhimál Tribes, in Three Parts , J. Thomas,
* 1971 , Harry Hoijer, “Athapaskan Morphology”, in Jesse O. Sawyer (editor), Studies in American Indian Languages , University of California Press (1973), ISBN 978-0-520-02525-7,
To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
To rid of sexuality
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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.
Neuter is a coordinate term of male.
In context|biology|lang=en terms the difference between neuter and male
is that neuter is (biology) an organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers while male is (biology) inherently characteristic of the male of a species.As adjectives the difference between neuter and male
is that neuter is (archaic) neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral while male is belonging to the sex which produces sperm, which in humans and many other species is the one which has xy chromosomes.As nouns the difference between neuter and male
is that neuter is (grammar) the neuter gender while male is someone of male (masculine) gender:.As a verb neuter
is to remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.neuter
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Alternative forms
*Adjective
(-)- In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands neuter .
- a neuter''' noun''; ''the '''neuter''' definite article''; ''a '''neuter''' termination''; ''the '''neuter gender
- a neuter verb
Noun
(en noun)- Friends, neuters , enemies, all are as one, to make a fool a madman is their sport […].
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- Make one do, or'' act (to), ''fare fare'', ''fare agire , with an accusative when the verb is a neuter , and with a dative when otherwise.
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- Compound verbs other than those already spoken of whereby neuters are made active, are very rare, as I have already hinted under the head of nouns.
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- In all the Apachean languages, verbs are divided into two major categories, neuters and actives, each of which may be further divided into intransitives, transitives, and passives.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "neuter")Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=The neutering extends to Believe’s guest stars, with warm-and-fuzzy verses from Ludacris (“I love everything about you / You’re imperfectly perfect”), Big Sean (“I don’t know if this makes sense, but you’re my hallelujah”), Nicki Minaj (who at least squeaks a “bitches” into her verse), and especially Drake, whose desire to hug and kiss the object of his affection on “Right Here” is reminiscent of The Red Hot Chili Peppers on Krusty’s Comeback Special. }}
Synonyms
* castrate, desex, doctor, fix, spayAnagrams
* * * * ----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.