Crossword clues for neuter
neuter
- Neither male nor female
- Fish Spooner says is unable to reproduce
- Render ineffective
- Not masculine or feminine
- Like the German 'das'
- Like some German nouns
- Usual gender of inanimate objects
- Noun gender
- Like 'it'
- Keep from reproducing
- What "it" is, grammatically
- Pronoun category of "it"
- Neither feminine nor masculine
- Make sterile, in a way
- Make litter-proof?
- Like some Latin nouns
- Like "it," in grammar
- Like "das Kapital"
- Language gender
- Inanimate object's gender
- Grammatical gender
- Grammar gender
- Fix, in the animal world
- Fix, as Fido
- Alter in a way
- Render impotent
- Like "it"
- Like worker bees
- It's gender
- Like a worker bee
- Sterile, in a way
- Spay, e.g
- Fix, as a dog
- Like it
- Render unproductive?
- Prevent from having anything?
- Like "it," grammatically
- A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
- Intransitive verb
- Neither masculine nor feminine
- Without gender
- A gender
- What it is
- Asexual
- Lacking gender
- Gender
- One of the genders
- Adjective for intransitive verbs
- Make ineffective; gender
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1903, from neuter (adj.). Originally in reference to pet cats. Related: Neutered; neutering.
late 14c., of grammatical gender, "neither masculine nor feminine," from Latin neuter "of the neuter gender," literally "neither one nor the other," from ne- "not, no" (see un-) + uter "either (of two)" (see whether). Probably a loan-translation of Greek oudeteros "neither, neuter." In 16c., it had the sense of "taking neither side, neutral."
Wiktionary
1 (context archaic English) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral. 2 (context grammar English) Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex. 3 (context grammar English) intransitive 4 (context biology English) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. n. 1 (context biology English) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers. 2 A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral. 3 (context grammar English) The neuter gender. 4 (context grammar English) A noun of the '''neuter''' gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words. 5 (context grammar English) An intransitive verb or state-of-being ver
vb. 1 To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals. 2 To rid of sexuality
WordNet
Wikipedia
Neuter is a Latin adjective meaning "neither", and can refer to:
- Neuter gender, a grammatical gender, a linguistic class of nouns triggering specific types of inflections in associated words
- Neutering, the sterilization of an animal
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.