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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
Example:
she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("gender" is a kind of...):
physiological property (a property having to do with the functioning of the body)
Attribute:
male (being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation)
female (being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop)
androgynous (having both male and female characteristics)
sexual (having or involving sex)
asexual; nonsexual (not having or involving sex)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gender"):
maleness; masculinity (the properties characteristic of the male sex)
androgyny; bisexuality; hermaphroditism (showing characteristics of both sexes)
femaleness; feminineness (the properties characteristic of the female sex)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
Synonyms:
gender; grammatical gender
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("gender" is a kind of...):
grammatical category; syntactic category ((grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gender"):
feminine (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female)
masculine (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male)
neuter (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb gender
Context examples:
This includes demographic information (for example, age, gender, ethnic origin) and information on diagnosis, treatment, response to treatment, and follow-up after treatment.
(Case series, NCI Dictionary)
An individual who reports belonging to the cultural gender role distinction of female.
(Female Gender, NCI Thesaurus)
Older age, male gender, cirrhosis and diabetes also were independently associated with an increased risk, but nucleos(t)ide analogue or statin use was associated with a decreased risk.
(An Aspirin A Day Keep Liver Cancer Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Participants wore blood-pressure monitoring devices that took regular readings, while researchers controlled for factors including people's age, gender, education, occupation, smoking status, body mass index, level of job stress and other variables.
(High Blood Pressure Liked to Long Hours on Job, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Mortality may be reported for people who have a certain disease, live in one area of the country, or who are of a certain gender, age, or ethnic group.
(Mortality, NCI Dictionary)
A patented biomarker test (APHP, 2001) that measures liver pathology through the assessment of a six-parameter blood test (for alpha-2-macroglobulin, haptoglobin, apolipoprotein A1, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, total bilirubin, and alanine aminotransferase), taking into account the age and gender of the patient.
(FibroTest Score Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
But on Miss Mills observing, with despondency, that it were well indeed for some hearts if this were so, I explained that I begged leave to restrict the observation to mortals of the masculine gender.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Reviewing more than 2,000 studies, the team pulled data from a final group of 66 studies executed over a 36 year period to determine how response may be affected by the type and timing of sleep deprivation performed (total vs early or late partial sleep deprivation), the clinical sample (having depressive or manic episodes, or a combination of both), medication status, and age and gender of the sample.
(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
By combining the data capacities of these large integrated health systems, researchers will be able to study health care patterns among millions of patients who mirror the diversity of the nation in terms of age, gender, income, education, cultural background and location.
(Cancer Research Network, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers next hope to follow a group of people for a longer duration to determine if sitting causes the thinning and what role gender, race, and weight might play in brain health related to sitting.
(Sitting Is Bad for Your Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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