gender

noun genders · g.

1. countable, obsolete, uncountable Class; kind. […]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…]

   Similar: genre

2. countable, uncountable 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
3. countable, uncountable 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.) I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves along gender lines is a wonderful and uniquely human phenomena.
4. countable, uncountable 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. The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity.
5. countable, uncountable Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”). 143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...] 1st.--Of the Gender. 144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passiv

   Similar: voice

6. countable, uncountable The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type). Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male.

Similar: biological sex, gendersex, voice

verb genders · gendering · gendered · g.

1. 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. In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).
2. To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender. 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 to gender the text accordingly.

adjective more gender · most gender · g.

1. Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy. This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.

verb genders · gendering · gendered · g.

1. archaic To engender. […] 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, which gendereth to bondage,
2. archaic, obsolete To breed. Yee ſhall keepe my Statutes: Thou ſhalt not let thy cattel gender 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.

noun genders · gendèr · g.

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