Word Finder - neuter

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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.

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A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

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(grammar) The neuter gender.

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(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

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(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

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To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

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To rid of sexuality.

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To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.

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Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

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• impartial
• neutral

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(grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.

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a neuter noun

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(grammar) Intransitive.

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a neuter verb

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• intransitive

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Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

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Sexless, nonsexual.

If you can't afford to neuter a kitten then don't have one.

The New English Dictionary points out that whereas the old Teutonic type of the word is neuter, corresponding to the Latin numen, in the Christian applications it becomes masculine, and that even where the earlier neuter form is still kept, as in Gothic and Old Norwegian, the construction is masculine.

We may observe, however, that while the latter term is used to denote the virtuous man, and (in the neuter) equivalent to End generally, the former is rather chosen to express the quality of virtuous acts which in any particular case is the end of the virtuous agent.

Like the former, he believes in a supreme personal God, possessing all gracious qualities (saguna), not in the quality-less (nirguna) neuter impersonal Brahman of Sankaracharya; this Lord Himself once took the human form, and became incarnate, for the blessing of mankind, as Rama.

Associated with these males are neuter zooids, which usually possess no functional repro ductive organs, but have in I -...

Singularly few language groups have this peculiarity; and our own great Indo-European group, which possesses it, is distinguished from those above mentioned by having the neuter gender in addition.

The large class of heterogeneous nouns which are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural constitute what is sometimes called the neuter declension.

So, there is no reason not to spay and neuter.

Spay or neuter your cat if it isn't all ready.

These fees cover the costs of shots, checkups and spay and neuter services.

Does the breeder require you to spay or neuter the dog by a certain age?

The shelter offers the Spay Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) right at their office.

Opulus, guelder rose, in the cultivated forms of which the corolla has become enlarged at the expense of the essential organs and the flowers are neuter.

As in some other languages, Latin nouns can be masculine, feminine and neuter, and they also belong to groups called declensions.

Note also that the neuter noun, nomen, behaves according to the same rules as you met with bellum in the second declension.

Simply because the Greek language uses a neuter noun for a word does not mean the word should translate into English using neuter noun for a word does not mean the word should translate into English using neuter pronouns.

Simply because the Greek language uses a neuter noun for a word does not mean the word should translate into English using neuter pronouns.

An experienced vet can neuter rabbits extremely quickly which reduces the risk of problems under anesthetic.

Many of them also spay or neuter the pets, so that when you adopt, you have one less chore to worry about.

If you are not a professional breeder and/or you do not wish to deliver and care for a litter of kittens, spay and neuter your cats.

The Sheboygan County Humane Society has a low-cost spay and neuter program that can help with the cost of altering animals.

It includes microchipping, vaccinations, a heartworm or feline leukemia test (if applicable) and spay or neuter surgery performed at the facility.

The neuter gender is absent.

Another marked peculiarity is that active agency is never attribtited to neuter nouns.

An active or causal verb requires before it the instrumental instead of the nominative case, which goes only before a neuter or intransitive verb.

The neuter term brahma is used in the Rigveda both in the abstract sense of "devotion, worship," and in the concrete sense of "devotional rite, prayer, hymn."