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neuter


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Neuter  \Neu"ter\,  n. 
  1.  A  person  who  takes  no  part  in  a  contest;  one  who  is  either 
  indifferent  to  a  cause  or  forbears  to  interfere;  a 
  neutral. 
 
  The  world's  no  neuter;  it  will  wound  or  save. 
  --Young. 
 
  2.  (Gram.) 
  a  A  noun  of  the  neuter  gender;  any  one  of  those  words 
  which  have  the  terminations  usually  found  in  neuter 
  words 
  b  An  intransitive  verb 
 
  3.  (Biol.)  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;  esp.,  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Neuter  \Neu"ter\,  a.  [L.,  fr  ne  not  +  uter  whether;  akin  to  E. 
  whether.  See  {No},  and  {Whether},  and  cf  {Neither}.] 
  1.  Neither  the  one  thing  nor  the  other  on  neither  side 
  impartial;  neutral.  [Archaic] 
 
  In  all  our  undertakings  God  will  be  either  our 
  friend  or  our  enemy;  for  Providence  never  stands 
  neuter.  --South. 
 
  2.  (Gram.) 
  a  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;  as  a 
  neuter  noun  a  neuter  termination;  the  neuter  gender. 
  b  Intransitive;  as  a  neuter  verb 
 
  3.  (Biol.)  Having  no  generative  organs,  or  imperfectly 
  developed  ones;  sexless.  See  {Neuter},  n.,  3. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  neuter 
  adj  1:  of  grammatical  gender;  "`it'  is  the  third-person  singular 
  neuter  pronoun"  [ant:  {masculine},  {feminine}] 
  2:  having  no  or  imperfectly  developed  or  nonfunctional  sex 
  organs  [syn:  {sexless}] 
  n  :  a  gender  that  refers  chiefly  (but  not  exclusively)  to 
  inanimate  objects  (neither  masculine  nor  feminine) 
  v  :  of  animals  [syn:  {alter},  {spay}] 




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