gendered |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of gender, , assign gender to | |
2. v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of gender, , engender | |
3. adj. (linguistics, of a language) Having grammatical gender. | |
Grammatically, Hebrew is a gendered language because every noun is either masculine or feminine. | |
4. adj. Pertaining to gender or having attributes due to gender. | |
His clothes were highly gendered. | |
5. adj. Divided by gender. | |
In the past, parenting was a more gendered activity with more distinct male and female roles. | |
gender |
1. n. Grammatical gender. | |
2. n. (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neu | |
3. n. (grammar) Any division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate. | |
4. n. (grammar) (synonym of voice, , particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs) | |
5. n. (obsolete) Class; kind. | |
6. n. (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "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. | |
7. n. (sociology) 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 th | |
8. n. (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 fitti | |
9. v. (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. | |
10. v. (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender. | |
11. v. (archaic) To engender. | |
12. v. (archaic, or obsolete) To breed. | |
but |
1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of. | |
Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there. | |
2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding. | |
Everyone but Father left early. | |
I like everything but that. | |
Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave. | |
3. adv. Merely, only, just. | |
4. adv. (Australian, conjunctive) Though, however. | |
I'll have to go home early but. | |
5. adv. Used as an intensifier. | |
Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it. | |
6. conj. (following a negative clause or sentence) On the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the negation). | |
I am not rich but (I am) poor; not John but Peter went there. | |
7. conj. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence). | |
She is very old but still attractive. | |
You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not. | |
8. conj. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "ex | |
I cannot but feel offended. | |
9. conj. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant). | |
It never rains but it pours. | |
10. conj. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without. | |
11. conj. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely. | |
12. conj. (obsolete) Until. | |
13. n. An instance or example of using the word "but". | |
It has to be done – no ifs or buts. | |
14. n. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage. | |
15. n. A limit; a boundary. | |
16. n. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt. | |
17. v. (archaic) Use the word "but". | |
But me no buts. | |
invariant |
1. adj. not varying; constant | |
2. adj. (mathematics) Unaffected by a specified operation (especially by a transformation) | |
3. adj. (computing, programming) Neither covariant nor contravariant. | |
4. n. An invariant quantity, function etc. | |