neuter
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable, uncommon, usually)(now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
Đồng nghĩa: impartial, neutral, candid, cold, clinical, detached, egal, equal, equitable, evenhanded, fairhanded, fair-minded, disinterested, dispassionate, impartial, imprejudicate, indifferent, indistinguishing, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartial, nonpartisan, nonpersonal, objective, unbiased, unbigoted, uninterested, unpartial, unpartisan, unprejudiced, unprepossessed
- 2.
(not comparable, usually)(grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
a neuter noun
the neuter definite article
a neuter termination
the neuter gender
- 3.
(not comparable, usually)(grammar) Intransitive.
a neuter verb
Đồng nghĩa: intransitive
- 4.
(not comparable, usually)(biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
Đồng nghĩa: asexual, genderless, sexless
- 5.
(literary, not comparable, usually)Sexless, nonsexual.
Đồng nghĩa: asexual, platonic, unsexual
- 6.
(not comparable, usually)(of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
Đồng nghĩa: fixed, gelded, neutered, spayed
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(biology) 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.
(offensive, sometimes, uncommon)(uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
- 3.
The act of neutering (typically an animal)
- 4.
A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- 5.
(grammar) The neuter gender.
- 6.
(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- 7.
(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
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.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
- 2.
(transitive)To rid of sexuality.
- 3.
(transitive)To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
Congress neutered the bill by adding an exception for big corporations.
- 4.
(transitive)To make grammatically neuter.
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ine-pro Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne + uter, a οὐδέτερος; compare either, whether, and neither.