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male

adj
/meɪl/UK/meːl/

Etymology

* As a Welsh surname, from the personal name Mael, from Middle Welsh mael (“prince”). * As an English surname of Norman origin, contaminated from many Old French sources, such as mail (“hammer”), maille (“chainmail”), maille (“denier”), or esmal (“enamel”). Compare Mailer. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English male (“bag, pouch”). * Also as an English surname of Norman origin, from the source of male (“male, male adult”). * Also as an English surname, from Middle English mele (“meal, flour”) (compare Millman) or from Old Norse melr (“sandhill”). Compare Meil. * As a Slovene surname, from the adjective mal (“small, little”), from Proto-Slavic *malъ. Compare Mal, Mahle. * As a Norwegian surname, from a farm in Romsdal derived from Old Norse mǫl (“layer of pebbles”). Also Americanized from Mæle, Mæhle, itself related to the Norse word melr. Compare Mele.

  1. derived from mǫl — “layer of pebbles”
  2. derived from *malъ✻
  3. derived from melr — “sandhill”
  4. derived from mele — “meal, flour”
  5. inherited from male — “bag, pouch”
  6. derived from mael — “prince”

Definitions

  1. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically…

    Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.

    • male writers
    • the leading male and female singers
    • a male bird feeding a seed to a female

  2. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)

    • stereotypically male interests
    • an insect with typically male coloration

  3. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this…

    Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.

    • the male chromosome
    • like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Masculine

      Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.

      • If you are describing a female noun, you must make the adjective feminine by adding an 'e'. If you describe a male noun, you add an 'er'. For neutral nouns you add an 'es'.

    2. Having the F factor

      Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).

      • Furthermore, male bacteria with fi + R factors, which inhibit the function of F (fi fertility inhibition) (Watanabe et al., 1964a), cannot form specific cell pairs at high frequencies. On the contrary, the formation of[…]
      • Male bacteria having the sex factor, also known as the F or "fertility" factor, are termed P if the sex factor exists extrachromosomally. F+ bacteria can only conjugate with F, the female counterparts, which do not possess the F [factor].

    3. Of instruments, tools, or connectors

      Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.

      • Male adapter connects female pipe threads to polyethylene cold-water pipe; [...] female flare coupling connects male pipe threads to flared copper or plastic;

    4. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.

      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:male.

    5. A bacterium which has the F factor.

      • During mating, F+ male bacteria transfer the F factor to the recipient females, transforming them into F+ males. Males also retain a copy of their F factor for themselves (left). When Hfr (or high frequency recombination) males mate[…]

    6. A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.

      • Work another rubber washer over the threads of the male adapter that is now sticking out of the bucket. […] cut out with an X-acto knife, then thread the female fittings to the males.

    7. A surname.

    8. Alternative form of Maale.

    9. A Madang language of Papua New Guinea.

    10. Acronym of medium-altitude long-endurance

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for male. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA