gendernoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɛndə/

• 1

  obsoleteClass; kind.

  • […]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…]
• 2

  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.
• 3

  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.
  • Gender is the sociocultural designation of biobehavioral and psychosocial qualities of the sexes; for example, woman (female), man (male), other(s) (e.g., berdaches²). Notions of gender are culturally specific and depend on the ways in which cultures define and differentiate human (and other) potentials and possibilities. While many people in Western society may think first of heterosexual women and men when the word "gender" is mentioned, there are more gender possibilities than just those two.
• 4

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA 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.
  • In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender […]
• 5

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsSynonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).

  • 143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...] 1st.--Of the Gender. 144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs.
  • Many of the words quoted are purely reflexive, others passive or deponent. Such words as óttask, œðrask, dásk, iðrask, reiðask are deponent, though they originally may have been reflexive, but the active gender is here quite obsolete.
• 6

  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.

genderverb詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɛndə/

• 1

  human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceTo 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).
• 2

  human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceTo 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.
  • Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses.

genderadj詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɛndə/

• 1

  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.
  • miles [Morales] is so gender and the embodiment of a little guy I just want to give him a hug

genderverb詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒɛndə/

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  archaicTo engender.

  • […] Abraham had two ſonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the fleſh: but hee of the freewoman, was by promiſe. Which things are an Allegorie; for theſe are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. […] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all.
  • […] 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.
• 2

  archaicobsoleteTo breed.

  • Yee ſhall keepe my Statutes: Thou ſhalt not let thy cattel gender with a diuerſe kinde: Thou ſhalt not ſowe thy field with mingled ſeed: Neither ſhall a garment mingled of linnen and woollen come vpon thee.
  • They are nearly round, a little flattish on one side, which lies next the bottom of the sea; and they are from one to eight inches thick. They crawl up into shallow water at particular seasons of the year, probably for the purpose of gendering, as we often find them in pairs.

gendernoun詞源 3/ɡənˈdɛː(r)/

• 1

  An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.