Gender vs. Epicene

Gender and Epicene Definitions
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.
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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