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sex

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Synonyms for gender

a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives

the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

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The pronunciation, as it happens, is just what I am most at home in; if he had said my genders or my idioms there would have been some sense.
Therefore, it is either DER (the) Regen, or DIE (the) Regen, or DAS (the) Regen, according to which gender it may turn out to be when I look.
Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart.
"Their father slew his father, sowed the seed Where he himself was gendered, and begat These maidens at the source wherefrom he sprang." Such are the gibes that men will cast at you.
It would tire you to remember that DO meant b, TU o, and RO y, and that to say he-boy you must prefix the ape masculine gender sound BU before the entire word and the feminine gender sound MU before each of the lower-case letters which go to make up boy--it would tire you and it would bring me to the nineteenth hole several strokes under par.
'Gender,' suggested Mr Squeers, regarding the spectators with a malevolent eye--literally A malevolent eye.
If I had kept clear of his old girl causes him usually to make the noun- substantive "goodness" of the feminine gender.
Our cultural beliefs dictate that there are only two biological sexes corresponding to two genders. Moreover, males are expected to have masculine gender identifications/roles and to be attracted to women.
goes in search of new genders. He sails to a remote, distant island, where the inhabitants recognize six of them.
The other social goals were not statistically significantly different between genders.
Filipovic-HadA3/4iabdic emphasized that "the purpose of the amendments is to introduce equal gender representation in the governing structures of the BiH radio and television system, equality in employment, equal representation of the interests of both genders in program contents, and program prohibitions of offensive, stereotypical and degrading representation of women and men based on their gender".
The same can be said for genders: While many only recognized male and female, and masculinity and femininity, we are witnessing an explosion of terms and identities, often coined by those who find "LGBT" too narrow.
While chairing the second meeting of the UAE Gender Balance Council on behalf of Shaikha Manal, Mona Ghanem Al Marri, Vice-President of the UAE Gender Balance Council, stressed the importance of implementing a comprehensive strategy to bridge the gap between the two genders.
I remember that a woman once came backstage when I was touring and told me, "You are a beautiful man and you are a beautiful woman." I was playing both genders in that particular production.
(6) Historian Peter Stearns contends that girls' and boys' "emotional cultures" were becoming less distinct in the 1920s, as child-rearing literature portrayed children of both genders as displaying many of the same emotional responses to common childhood travails.