neuter
Grammar.
noting or pertaining to a gender that refers to things classed as neither masculine nor feminine.
(of a verb) intransitive.
Zoology, Botany. having no organs of reproduction; without sex; asexual.
Zoology. having imperfectly developed sexual organs, as the worker bees and ants.
neutral; siding with no one.
Grammar.
the neuter gender.
a noun of that gender.
another element marking that gender.
an intransitive verb.
an animal made sterile by castration or spaying.
Zoology. a neuter insect.
a person or thing that is neutral.
Origin of neuter
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How to use neuter in a sentence
In Issie Lapowsky’s article for Protocol, she goes over the debates that neutered Do Not Track and how essentially the same thing is going on now with initiatives that seek to replace third-party cookies.
Would your job be easier or more difficult if Google wasn’t the dominant platform?; Thursday’s daily brief | George Nguyen | July 15, 2021 | Search Engine LandA righteous uproar ensued, with complaints that the website diminished the labor of these bloggers, stole their ad revenue, and neutered their IP, all without consent.
No-Recipe Recipes Aren’t a Fad; They’re as Old as Cooking Instruction Itself | Marian Bull | July 14, 2021 | EaterShe brought back some of the agreeable ones for adoption and started capturing and neutering others.
People have abandoned hundreds of cats on a deserted Brazilian island. Officials aren’t sure how to save them. | Terrence McCoy | June 4, 2021 | Washington PostIn the past decade, she said, 380 of the island’s cats have been neutered by her organization, Veterinarians on the Road.
People have abandoned hundreds of cats on a deserted Brazilian island. Officials aren’t sure how to save them. | Terrence McCoy | June 4, 2021 | Washington PostBy the 1970s, spay and neuter technology became more widely used, and animal-welfare groups like the Humane Society of the United States promoted the motto of “legislate, educate, sterilize” to reduce the number of unwanted animals.
How the Pandemic Pet-Adoption Boom Fits Into the Long History of Rescuing Animals | Olivia B. Waxman | June 3, 2021 | Time
She says the Humane Society would like to enforce spay and neuter laws to the point where there would be no purebred dogs left.
The Sleazy War on the Humane Society | Center for Public Integrity | August 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt seeks to neuter the criticism of any lurking Paltrow naysayers wishing to transfer their negativity to Lively.
In a land where resources are scarce, and spay-neuter initiatives are only starting to make inroads, this is not surprising.
Take that away, or neuter the violence too much, and enrollment drops.
Steve James and Christopher Nowinski Talk the New Doc ‘Head Games’ | Kevin Fallon | September 22, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTPro: “My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working & nothing after all.”
The word mistranslated “greater,” πλεῖον, is neuter and cannot be applied to a man.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayIn my rendering of this the pronoun "his" must be understood in its old English latitude as either neuter or masculine.
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. | Solomon MaimonThe neuter of Myrmica rubra, another ant, has no ocelli or stemmata, although the male and female are provided with them.
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. III (of 4) | William KirbyMtzner translates quia situm est in malo, treating ille as a neuter noun, evil.
To grumble, as Cox pointed out to Mrs. Bouncer, is a verb neuter meaning to complain without a cause.
The Law and the Poor | Edward Abbott Parry
British Dictionary definitions for neuter
/ (ˈnjuːtə) /
grammar
denoting or belonging to a gender of nouns which for the most part have inanimate referents or do not specify the sex of their referents
(as noun): German ``Mädchen'' ( meaning ``girl'' ) is a neuter
(of animals and plants) having nonfunctional, underdeveloped, or absent reproductive organs
sexless or giving no indication of sex: a neuter sort of name
a sexually underdeveloped female insect, such as a worker bee
a castrated animal, esp a domestic animal
a flower in which the stamens and pistil are absent or nonfunctional
(tr) to castrate or spay (an animal)
Origin of neuter
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