gender
noun
- designation differentiating two dissimilar connectors which together form a physical connexion -- Used to describe connexions for spacecraft docking, electronics, plumbing, etc.
- range of physical, mental, and behavioral characteristics distinguishing between masculinity and femininity
verb
- to assign or attribute gender to
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/ / /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/ / /ɡənˈdɛː(r)/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
- 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.”
“miles [Morales] is so gender and the embodiment of a little guy I just want to give him a hug”
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian gender, from Javanese ꦒꦼꦤ꧀ꦢꦺꦂ (gendèr), from Old Javanese gĕnder.
- An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English gendren, genderen, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.
- 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, which is Agar. […] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all.”
“[…] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and which gendered a servile frame of spirit.”
- 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.”
“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 of gendering, as we often find them in pairs.”