The difference between Neuter and Spay

When used as verbs, neuter means to remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring, whereas spay means to remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant.

Neuter is also noun with the meaning: 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.

Neuter is also adjective with the meaning: neutral.

check bellow for the other definitions of Neuter and Spay

  1. Neuter as an adjective (now, uncommon):

    Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: impartianeutral"

  2. 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"

  3. Neuter as an adjective (grammar):

    Intransitive.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: intransitive"

    "a neuter verb"

  4. Neuter as an adjective (biology):

    Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

  5. Neuter as an adjective (literary):

    Sexless, nonsexual.

  1. 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.

  2. Neuter as a noun:

    A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

  3. Neuter as a noun (grammar):

    The neuter gender.

  4. 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.

  5. Neuter as a noun (grammar):

    An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

  1. 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.

  2. Neuter as a verb:

    To rid of sexuality.

  3. Neuter as a verb:

    To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.

  1. Spay as a verb (transitive):

    To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant.

  1. Spay as a noun:

  1. Spay as a verb:

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