gen·der /ˈʤɛndɚ/
 性(vt.)產生
 gen·der /ˈʤɛndɚ/ 名詞
 性,性別
 Gen·der v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gendered p. pr. & vb. n. Gendering.]  To beget; to engender.
 Gen·der, v. i. To copulate; to breed. [R.]
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 Gen·der n.
 1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] “One gender of herbs.”
 2. Sex, male or female.
 3. Gram. A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
    Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects.   --R. Morris.
 Note: ☞ Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer.
 gender
      n 1: 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 [syn: grammatical gender]
      2: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of
         their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex
         of the foetus" [syn: sex, sexuality]