The difference between Gender and Hermaphroditic
Gender is also noun with the meaning: a division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common.
Gender is also verb with the meaning: to assign a gender to (a person).
Hermaphroditic is also adjective with the meaning: of or pertaining to hermaphrodism.
check bellow for the other definitions of Gender and Hermaphroditic
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Gender as a noun (grammar):
Grammatical gender. A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common. Any division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.
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Gender as a noun (obsolete):
Class; kind.
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Gender as a noun (now, sometimes, _, proscribed):
Sex .
Examples:
"the gene is activated in both genders"
"The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors."
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Gender as a noun (sociology):
Identification as a man, a woman or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis.
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Gender as a noun (hardware):
The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
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Gender as a verb (sociology):
To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
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Gender as a verb (sociology):
To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
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Gender as a verb (archaic):
To engender.
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Gender as a verb (archaic, or, obsolete):
To breed.
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Hermaphroditic as an adjective:
Of or pertaining to hermaphrodism; being a hermaphrodite.
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Hermaphroditic as an adjective (biology):
Possessing the reproductive organs of both sexes.