The difference between Gender and Neuter
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 neuter means an organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden hydrangea.
When used as verbs, gender means to assign a gender to (a person), whereas neuter means to remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring.
Neuter is also adjective with the meaning: neutral.
check bellow for the other definitions of Gender and Neuter
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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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Neuter as an adjective (now, uncommon):
Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
Examples:
"synonyms: impartianeutral"
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Neuter as an adjective (grammar):
Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
Examples:
"a neuter noun"
"the neuter definite article"
"a neuter termination"
"the neuter gender"
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Neuter as an adjective (grammar):
Intransitive.
Examples:
"synonyms: intransitive"
"a neuter verb"
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Neuter as an adjective (biology):
Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
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Neuter as an adjective (literary):
Sexless, nonsexual.
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Neuter as a noun (biology):
An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
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Neuter as a noun:
A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
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Neuter as a noun (grammar):
The neuter gender.
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Neuter as a noun (grammar):
A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
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Neuter as a noun (grammar):
An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
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Neuter as a verb:
To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
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Neuter as a verb:
To rid of sexuality.
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Neuter as a verb:
To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.