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Gender

A grammatical category, often designated as male, female, or neuter, used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.

Epicene

Having male and female characteristics.

Gender

The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category
Agreement in gender, number, and case.

Epicene

Having characteristics traditionally ascribed to another sex, especially as a male who is considered to be effeminate.

Gender

Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, by which most organisms are classified on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions; sex.

Epicene

Having no male or female characteristics.
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Gender

One's identity as female or male or as neither entirely female nor entirely male.

Epicene

(Linguistics) Having only one form for both the male and the female
An epicene pronoun.

Gender

Females or males considered as a group
Students lined up with the genders in different lines.

Epicene

One that is epicene.

Gender

To engender.

Epicene

(Linguistics) An epicene word.
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Gender

(obsolete) Class; kind.

Epicene

(linguistics) Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).

Gender

(grammar) 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.

Epicene

(linguistics) Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.

Gender

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.

Epicene

(by extension) Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex.
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Gender

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.

Epicene

Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face.

Gender

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Epicene

(by extension) Indeterminate; mixed.

Gender

(hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).

Epicene

Of a man: effeminate.

Gender

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

Epicene

(linguistics) An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class.

Gender

(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.

Epicene

An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite.

Gender

(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

Epicene

(by extension) A transsexual; also, a transvestite.

Gender

(archaic) To engender.

Epicene

An effeminate man.

Gender

To breed.

Epicene

Common to both sexes; - a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

Gender

Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.
This song is so gender.

Epicene

Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
The literary prigs epicene.
He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman.

Gender

Kind; sort.

Epicene

Having an ambiguous sexual identity

Gender

Sex, male or female.

Epicene

Having unsuitable feminine qualities

Gender

A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects.

Gender

To beget; to engender.

Gender

To copulate; to breed.

Gender

A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

Gender

The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;
She didn't want to know the sex of the foetus

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