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One of the genders
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neuter
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Word definitions for neuter in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) v. remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" [syn: alter , spay , castrate ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
neuter \neu"ter\, v. t. To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; -- in male animals, to castrate ; in female animals, to spay .
Usage examples of neuter.
It is, if anything at all, aggressively neuter, pitched at the extreme centre of Anglophone society.
But even the studios will sweeten that boosted peak by rewitnessing it through a neutered cat, a Catholic priest, a housewife overprescribed with estrogen.
Blade saw that the Second Neuter had arrived and was lingering in the background, along with a Lieutenant and a squad of ceboid soldiers.
Lordsmen to back up the ceboid officers who in turn were backing the whipping neuters.
There were ceboids in the streets, and neuters, all hustling and bustling along, but he could discern no real intent.
In Exodus chapter 20 the neuter language gender is consistently used throughout this recording of the Decalogue, with only three instances of sexual differentiation.
We did not specify that our dogs be male or female, spayed or neutered, and we were not allowed to alter them because they were to be returned intact to their original owners at the end of the war.
Chapter VII Instinct Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin -- Instincts graduated -- Aphides and ants -- Instincts variable -- Domestic instincts, their origin -- Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees -- Slave-making ants -- Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct - - Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts -- Neuter or sterile insects -- Summary.
I may give one other case: so confidently did I expect to find gradations in important points of structure between the different castes of neuters in the same species, that I gladly availed myself of Mr.
Neither Ballard nor Gunther ever used the neuter pronoun in reference to the creature.
The laugh of the shrill, triumphant female sounded from Hermione, jeering him as if he were a neuter.
Darwin cannot mean that it can be shewn that the wonderful instincts of neuter ants and bees cannot have been acquired either, as above, by instruction, or by some not immediately obvious form of inherited transmission, but that they must be due to the fact that the ant or bee is, as it were, such and such a machine, of which if you touch such and such a spring, you will get a corresponding action.
I can see no reason for doubting that in some of the ways suggested above, or in some combination of them, the phenomena of the instincts of neuter ants and bees can be brought into the same category as the instincts and structure of fertile animals.
Ages of Chaos, when the Keepers were mutilated, even neutered, made less than women.
Neskaya when I was thirteen, and one of the girls told me that if she was sent to Arilinn she would refuse, since the Keepers there were neutered.