Soft vs Gender - What's the difference?
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Easily giving way under pressure.
(of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
* Bible, Matt. xi. 8
Gentle.
* Shakespeare
* Tyndale
Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
* Bible, Proverbs xv. 1
* Wordsworth
Gentle in action or motion; easy.
* Milton
Weak in character; impressible.
* Glanvill
Requiring little or no effort; easy.
Not bright or intense.
(of a road intersection) Having an acute angle.
(of a sound) Quiet.
* Shakespeare
(linguistics) voiced, sonant
(linguistics, rare) voiceless
(linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized
(slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy.
(of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
(UK, colloquial) Foolish.
* Burton
(physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
(of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
(UK, of a man) Effeminate.
* Jeremy Taylor
Agreeable to the senses.
* Milton
Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
* Shakespeare
(lb) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:A knight soft riding toward them.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
(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):
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between soft and gender
is that soft is (archaic) be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast while gender is (archaic) to engender.As nouns the difference between soft and gender
is that soft is a soft or foolish person; an idiot while 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 soft
is easily giving way under pressure.As an interjection soft
is (archaic) be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.As an adverb soft
is (lb) softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.As a verb 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.soft
English
Adjective
(er)- My head sank easily into the soft pillow.
- Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching.
- soft''' silk; a '''soft skin
- They that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
- There was a soft breeze blowing.
- I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's; / Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine.
- The meek or soft shall inherit the earth.
- soft eyes
- A soft answer turneth away wrath.
- A face with gladness overspread, / Soft smiles, by human kindness bred.
- On her soft axle, white she paces even, / And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.
- The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.
- a soft job
- soft lighting
- At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the soft left.
- I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees.
- Her voice was ever soft , / Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
- DH represents the voiced (soft)'' th ''of English these clothes. —
- When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come.
- You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft .
- He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad.
- The admin imposed a soft''' block/ban on the user or a '''soft lock on the article.
- A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft , and wandering.
- a soft liniment
- soft wines
- the soft , delicious air
- soft colours
- the soft outline of the snow-covered hill
- The sun, shining upon the upper part of the clouds made the softest lights imaginable.
Synonyms
* (of a cloth) non-abrasive, fluffy * (gentle) gentle, light, nesh * (of a sound) quiet * (lacking strength or resolve) meek, mild, wimpy, nesh * (foolish) daft, foolish, silly, stupidAntonyms
* (giving way under pressure) hard, resistant, solid, stony * (of a cloth) abrasive, scratchy * (gentle) harsh, rough, strong * (acute) hard * (of a sound) loud * (lacking strength or resolve) firm, strict, tough * (of water) hard * (foolish) sensibleDerived terms
* soft-boiled * soft copy * soft drink * soften * soft focus * soft-hearted * softly * softness * soft on * soft palate * soft power * soft science fiction * soft serve * soft shoe * soft soap * soft-spoken * soft touch * soft toy * software * softwood * softySee also
* mollifyInterjection
(en interjection)- Soft , you; a word or two before you go.
- But, soft ! What light through yonder window breaks?
Adverb
(en adverb)Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----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.
page 187:
- 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.
page 131:
- 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.