Look up: Gender

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   Gender
   The fact that you are male or female.
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   Gender
   Social expectations about behaviour regarded as appropriate for the members of each sex. Gender does not refer to the physical attributes in terms of which men and women differ, but to socially formed traits of masculinity and femininity. The study of gender relations has become one of the most important areas of sociology in recent years, although for a long time they received little attention.
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   gender
   [n] - a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives
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   gender
   the social distinction between males and females.
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   Gender
   the social aspects of differences and hierarchies between female or male
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   gender
   2 types of gender are distinguished in linguistics --- natural gender, where items refer to the sex of real world entities, and grammatical gender, which has nothing to do with sex, but which signals grammatical relationships between words in a sentence and which is shown e.g. by the form of the article or the noun.
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   gender
   a concept that refers to the social differences between women and men that have been learned, are changeable over time and have wide variations both within and between cultures Category: Man and society • a grammatical category based on the forms of nouns,pronouns,adjectives and articles Category: Language and literature
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   Gender
   Gen'der (jĕn'dẽr) noun [ Old French genre , gendre (with excrescent d .), French genre , from Latin genus , generis , birth, descent, race, kind, gender, from the root of genere , gignere , to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to English kin . See Kin , and confer Generate , Genre , Gentle ...
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   Gender
   Gen'der transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gendered ; present participle & verbal noun Gendering .] [ Old French gendrer , from Latin generare . See Gender , noun ] To beget; to engender.
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    Gender
    Gen'der intransitive verb To copulate; to breed. [ R.] Shak.
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    gender
    1. Kind; sort. 'One gender of herbs.' ... 2. Sex, male or female. ... 3. 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.' (R. Morris) ... Adje ...
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    gender
    grammatical gender noun 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
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    Gender
    `Gender`, in common usage, refers to the differences between men and women. `Encyclopædia Britannica` notes that gender identity is `an individual's self-conception as being male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex.` Although `gender` is commonly used interchangeably with `sex`, within the social sciences it often refers to specifically social differences, known as `gender roles` in the biological sciences. Historically, femini...
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    Gendér
    A `gendér` is a type of metallophone used in Balinese and Javanese gamelan music. It consists of 10 to 14 tuned metal bars suspended over a tuned resonator of bamboo or metal, which are tapped with a mallet made of wooden disks (Bali) or a padded wooden disk (Java). Each key is a note of a different pitch, often extending a little more than two octaves. There are five notes per octave, so in the seven-note pélog scale, some pitches are left out a...
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    gender
    (jen´dәr) sex (def. 1).
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    Gender
    • (n.) Kind; sort. • (n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. • (n.) To beget; to engender. • (n.) Sex, male or female. • (v. i.) To copulate; to breed.
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    gender
    (from the article `percussion instrument`) ...a trough metallophone depicted as early as about 800 on the Borobuur stupa (Buddhist monument), Java, and the frame metallophone gender, now ...
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    gender
    in language, a phenomenon in which the words of a certain part of speech, usually nouns, require the agreement, or concord, through grammatical ... [11 related articles]
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    gender
    Category to which an individual is assigned by self or others, on the basis of sex. Cf. sex, gender role
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    Gender
    The sexual distinction between male and female. Once conception has occured, the baby's gender is determined based on the male's sperm that fertilized the egg. The Xx combination of sperm and egg create a female; the Xy are male.
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    Gender
    The meanings that societies and individuals attach to being female and male.
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    gender
    gender [Lat. genus=kind], in grammar, subclassification of nouns or nounlike words in which the members of the subclass have characteristic features of agreement with other words. The term gender is not usually considered to include the classification of number. In French, for example, there are two...
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