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neuter
noun 
  1. A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
    • Young " The world"s no ; it will wound or save
      1. (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
      2. (grammar) An intransitive verb.
      3. (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.
Translations: 
  • German: Neutrum (2), Intransitivum (3)
verb 
  1. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
Translations: 
  • French: chí¢trer(fr)
  • German: verschneiden(de)
  • Spanish: castrar(es)
    (trans-bottom)
adjective 
  1. (archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
    • South " In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands
      1. (grammar) 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
      a noun; a termination; the gender
      1. (grammar) intransitive, Intransitive
      a verb
      1. (biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
Translations: 
  • Spanish: neutro(es)
    (trans-bottom) (rfc-trans)
  • French: neutre
  • German: sí¤chlich (2), intransitiv (3), geschlechtslos (4)
  • Italian: neutro
Etymology: , from (term, ne, lang=la, , not) + (term, uter, lang=la, , whether); akin to English (term, whether). See (term, no) and (term, whether), and compare (term, neither).

     
 
  

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