[…]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with onegender of herbs or distract it with many[…]
(now sometimes proscribed)Sex(a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).[from 15th c.]
the gene is activated in bothgenders
The effect of the medication is dependent upon age,gender, and other factors.
To say truth, I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex; and my only consolation for being of thatgender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them[…].
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse[…] that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of eithergender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
2004, Wenona Mary Giles, Jennifer Hyndman,Sites of violence: gender and conflict zones, page28:
Gender does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies,[…].
Although asari have onegender, they are not asexual. An asari provides two copies of her own genes to her offspring. The second set is altered in a unique process called melding. During melding, an asari consciously attunes her nervous system to her partner's, sending and receiving electrical impulses directly through the skin. The partner can be another asari, or an alien of eithergender. Effectively, the asari and her partner briefly become one unified nervous system.
Identification as aman, awoman, 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.(Comparegender role,gender identity.)[from 20th c.]
I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves alonggender 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 ofgender 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 moregender possibilities than just those two.
From simply "adding women" into the analysis of work and seeing "gender" as another word for "sex," we have moved to the understanding thatgender is a social process and a social construction of sexual differences. It is as much an independent variable as a dependent variable, shaped by social and historical processes. Beyond bringing women back into analyses of the workplace and the labor process, we now have to analyze how work is gendered and gendering:gender as a means of control and an organizing principle for class relations at the point of production, and workplace as a site forgender construction, formation, and reproduction. In the latest development, seeinggender as a power process also directs our attention toward the politics of identity, or the formation and claiming of collective subjectivities.
2007, Helen Boyd,She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband,→ISBN, page93:
One wife I met at a conference was in a hurry for her husband to have the genital surgery because she worried about hisgender and genitals not matching if he were in a car accident,[…]
2010, Eve Shapiro,Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age,→ISBN:
Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man, announced in an April 2008 issue of the gay and lesbian news magazine,The Advocate, that he was pregnant.[…] Moreover, he saw no conflict between hisgender and his pregnancy.
2012, Elizabeth Reis,American Sexual Histories, page 5:
Intersex people too challenge the idea that physical sex, not merelygender, is binary – a person must be definitively either one sex or the other.
2025 June 18, Samantha Riedel, “In Trans Legal Victory, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Denying Passport Gender Changes”, inThem[4]:
The State Department and current Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expressly directed under the injunction to “to process and issue passports [...] consistent with the State Department’s policy as of January 19, 2025,” and to allow passport applicants to self-declare theirgender even if that information is “different from the sex assigned to those individuals under the [Trump] Passport Policy.”
1990, Edwin L. Battistella,Markedness: The Evaluative Superstructure of Language,→ISBN, page73:
The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case,gender, animacy, and reflexivity.
1991, Greville G. Corbett,Gender,→ISBN, pages22 and 65:
In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimategender[…]
2006, Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras,Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample,→ISBN, page29:
Pronouns, for instance, are structures that organise information about continuous referents. This information is typically categorised in Romani according to Person, Number,Gender, Animacy, Case, and Discreteness.
2015, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat,The Indo-European Languages,→ISBN, page191:
The commongender might well reflect an IE animategender.
(grammar)Synonym ofvoice(“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
1835, James Paul Cobbett,A Latin Grammar for the Use of English Boys: Being an Explanation of the Rudiments of the Latin Language, London, page111:
143.[…] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs:Gender orSort,Person,Number,Time,Mode,Participle,Gerund, andSupine. [...] 1st.--Of theGender. 144.Gender means the same assort orkind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs.
1866, Guðbrandr Vigfusson, “Some remarks upon the Use of the Reflexive Pronoun in Icelandic”, inTransactions of the Philological Society, page87:
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 activegender is here quite obsolete.
2007, Bernard Colombat, “Some Problems in Transferring the Latin Model to the First French Grammars: Verbal voice, impersonal verbs and the -rais form”, in Eduardo Guimarães, Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros, editors,Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 110: History of Linguistics 2002, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 6:
The general distinction is between three 'genders' out of the fivegenders of the Latin tradition: activegender, passivegender, neutergender.
(hardware) The quality which distinguishesconnectors, which may bemale (fitting into another connector) andfemale (having another connector fit into it), orgenderless orandrogynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).[from 20th c.]
2015, Ron Carswell, Shen Jiang, Mary Ellen Hardee,Guide to Parallel Operating Systems with Windows 10 and Linux, page10:
Connectors are identified bygender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, itsgender is male.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
gender (third-person singular simple presentgenders,present participlegendering,simple past and past participlegendered)
(sociology) Toassign agender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
2011, Kristen Schilt,Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, page147:
In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued togender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).
(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
1996, Athalya Brenner,A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament, page191:
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 togender the text accordingly.
1997, Cheryl Glenn,Rhetoric Retold, page120:
Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society wasgendered 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.
2003, “Reading the Anonymous Female Voice”, inThe Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England, page244:
Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice togender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.
2019 May 22, Megan Specia, “Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.N. Finds”, inNew York Times[5]:
“Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices,” Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said in a statement. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies aregendered and, crucially, who isgendering them.”
Whenever I work triceps at the gym I feel mostGender (tm).
2024 August 23, official-linguistics-post, “Archived copy”, inTumblr[11] (blog), archived fromthe original on30 August 2024:
Is there anything surprising that makes you feelgender/that you are envious of? ¶ oooh. i recently discovered the big gender mood of shirts cropped to precisely the right length, and it is also surprisinglygender when my friends call me “doc” instead of my very binarily gendered name
[…]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, whichgendereth to bondage, which isAgar.[…] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all.
1854, Robert Gordon (D.D., Minister of the Free High Church, Edinburgh.),Christ as Made Known to the Ancient Church: an Exposition of the Revelation of Divine Grace, as Unfolded in the Old Testament Scriptures, page 400:
[…] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and whichgendered a servile frame of spirit.
1893,The Academy and Literature, page71:
Our whole life was passed in public, whichgendered a sympathy and good fellowship that always distinguishes Wykehamists from the rest of mankind.
Yee ſhall keepe my Statutes: Thou ſhalt not let thy cattelgender 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 ofgendering, as we often find them in pairs.
1896, John Todhunter,Three Irish Bardic Tales: Being Metrical Versions of the Three Tales Known as the Three Sorrows of Story-telling, page11:
Fear in the witch's heart wasgendering with her hate, Seeing her evil thought grown to an evil deed,[…]
Dutch lacks words to distinguishgender fromsex, using the wordsgeslacht orsekse to encompass both concepts. The termgender in Dutch has been recently introduced for cases when a clear distinction is needed, such as in the distinction betweentransgender (feeling oneself to be different from one's birth sex) andtranssexual (having or desiring the sexual organs of the sex opposite to those one had at birth).
sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species)
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
