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noun
- A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
- Young " The world"s no ; it will wound or save
- (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- (grammar) An intransitive verb.
- (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.
Translations: - German: Neutrum (2), Intransitivum (3)
verb
- To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
Translations: - French: chí¢trer(fr)
- German: verschneiden(de)
- Spanish: castrar(es)
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adjective
- (archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
- South " In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands
- (grammar) Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex
- a noun; a termination; the gender
- (grammar) intransitive, Intransitive
- a verb
- (biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
Translations: - Spanish: neutro(es)
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- French: neutre
- German: sí¤chlich (2), intransitiv (3), geschlechtslos (4)
- Italian: neutro
Etymology: , from (term, ne, lang=la, , not) + (term, uter, lang=la, , whether); akin to English (term, whether). See (term, no) and (term, whether), and compare (term, neither).
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