The difference between Masculine and Neuter
When used as nouns, masculine means the masculine gender, 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 adjectives, masculine means of or pertaining to the male gender, whereas neuter means neutral.
Neuter is also verb with the meaning: to remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring.
check bellow for the other definitions of Masculine and Neuter
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Masculine as an adjective:
Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
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Masculine as an adjective:
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
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Masculine as an adjective:
Belonging to males; typically used by males.
Examples:
"“John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names."
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Masculine as an adjective:
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
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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''."
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Masculine as a noun (grammar):
The masculine gender.
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Masculine as a noun (grammar):
A word of the masculine gender.
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Masculine as a noun:
That which is masculine.
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Masculine as a noun (rare, possibly, _, obsolete):
A man.
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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.