The difference between Gender and Masculine

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 masculine means the masculine gender.

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

Masculine is also adjective with the meaning: of or pertaining to the male gender.

check bellow for the other definitions of Gender and Masculine

  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. Masculine as an adjective:

    Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.

  2. Masculine as an adjective:

    Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.

  3. Masculine as an adjective:

    Belonging to males; typically used by males.

    Examples:

    "“John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names."

  4. Masculine as an adjective:

    Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.

  5. Masculine as an adjective (grammar):

    Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions. Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner. Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.

    Examples:

    "The noun ''Student'' is masculine in German."

    "German uses the masculine form of the definite article, ''der'', with ''Student''."

  1. Masculine as a noun (grammar):

    The masculine gender.

  2. Masculine as a noun (grammar):

    A word of the masculine gender.

  3. Masculine as a noun:

    That which is masculine.

  4. Masculine as a noun (rare, possibly, _, obsolete):

    A man.

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