The difference between Gender and Woman

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 woman means an adult female human.

When used as verbs, gender means to assign a gender to (a person), whereas woman means to staff with female labor.

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  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. Woman as a noun:

    An adult female human.

  2. Woman as a noun (collective):

    All females collectively; womankind.

  3. Woman as a noun:

    A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).

  4. Woman as a noun:

    A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.

  5. Woman as a noun:

    A female attendant or servant.

  1. Woman as a verb:

    To staff with female labor.

  2. Woman as a verb (transitive):

    To make effeminate or womanish.

  3. Woman as a verb (transitive):

    To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

  4. Woman as a verb (transitive):

    To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.

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