The difference between Gender and Male

When used as nouns, gender means 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, whereas male means a human member of the masculine sex or gender.

Gender is also verb with the meaning: to assign a gender to (a person).

Male is also adjective with the meaning: belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.

check bellow for the other definitions of Gender and Male

  1. 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.

  2. Gender as a noun (obsolete):

    Class; kind.

  3. 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."

  4. 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.

  5. 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).

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  1. Gender as a verb (archaic):

    To engender.

  2. Gender as a verb (archaic, or, obsolete):

    To breed.

  1. Male as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "male writers'', ''the leading male and female singers'', ''a male bird feeding a seed to a female'', ''in bee colonies, all drones are male'', ''intersex male patients"

  2. Male as an adjective:

    Characteristic of this sex/gender. , .}}

    Examples:

    "stereotypically male interests'', ''an insect with typically male coloration"

  3. Male as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "the male chromosome''; ''like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones"

  4. Male as an adjective (grammar, less common than 'masculine'):

    Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.

  5. Male as an adjective (figuratively):

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

  1. Male as a noun (sometimes, _, offensive):

    One of the male (masculine) sex or gender. A human member of the masculine sex or gender. An animal of the sex that has testes. A plant of the masculine sex.

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