Meaning of Neuter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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. One who has been neutered; eunuch.
   offensive, sometimes, uncommon
3. The act of neutering (typically an animal)
4. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
5. The neuter gender.
6. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
7. An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

Equivalents

Examples

“the information i acquire may help me finalize my decision to become a neuter. let me say that castration is (for me) in no way a short term goal. it's something i've heard about, thought about, and believe may benefit me personally.”

“I WOULD SOONER BECOME A NEUTER no seriously tell me where the libido-suppressing pills are”

“You can change yourself into a neuter, but you can't become the opposite sex.”

“Well, we've had a young (probably around a year old, but I'm guessing), intact (he's scheduled for a neuter, but it's one of those "when we get a spare minute" type of things) male Shih-tzu/shih-tzu mix come in about a month ago.”

“But if you should beecome eyther a counterfayt Protestant, or a perverse Papist, or a colde and carelesse newter (which God forbid) the harme could not be expressed which you should do to your native Cuntrie.”

“Friends, neuters, enemies, all are as one, to make a fool a madman is their sport […].”

“Make one do, or act (to), fare fare, fare agire, with an accusative when the verb is a neuter, and with a dative when otherwise.”

“Compound verbs other than those already spoken of whereby neuters are made active, are very rare, as I have already hinted under the head of nouns.”

“In all the Apachean languages, verbs are divided into two major categories, neuters and actives, each of which may be further divided into intransitives, transitives, and passives.”

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