Sekirov Dictionary

gender

UK /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/US /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/

noun 7
verb 4
adjective 1
forms 6
phrases 2

noun7

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Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
- the gene is activated in both genders
- The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
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Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
- I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves along gender lines is a wonderful and uniquely human phenomena. — 1979
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A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
- The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity. — 1990
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The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
- Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male. — 2015
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Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
- The general distinction is between three 'genders' out of the five genders of the Latin tradition: active gender, passive gender, neuter gender. — 2007
An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
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(no longer used) Class; kind.
- […]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…] — 1603

verb4

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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.
- 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). — 2011
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To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
- 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. — 1996
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(no longer used) To engender.
- […] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and which gendered a servile frame of spirit. — 1854
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(no longer used) To breed.
- Fear in the witch's heart was gendering with her hate, Seeing her evil thought grown to an evil deed, […] — 1896

adjective1

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Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
- This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.

forms

gendered · gendering · genders · gendèrs · more gender · most gender

Phrases with gender

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