Definizione monolingua

neuter

neuter (third-person singular simple present neuters, present participle neutering, simple past and past participle neutered)

1. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

neuter (plural neuters)

1. (grammar) The neuter gender.
2. (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
3. (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.
4. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.iv:

     Friends, neuters, enemies, all are as one, to make a fool a madman is their sport [...].

5. (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
   • 1820, M. Santagnello, A Dictionary of the Peculiarities of the Italian Language, G. and W. B. Whittaker, page 185:

     Make one do, or act (to), fare fare, fare agire, with an accusative when the verb is a neuter, and with a dative when otherwise.

   • 1847, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Essay the First; On the Kocch, Bódo and Dhimál Tribes, in Three Parts, J. Thomas, page 119:

     Compound verbs other than those already spoken of whereby neuters are made active, are very rare, as I have already hinted under the head of nouns.

   • 1971, Harry Hoijer, “Athapaskan Morphology”, in Jesse O. Sawyer (editor), Studies in American Indian Languages, University of California Press (1973), ISBN 978-0-520-02525-7, page 130:

     In all the Apachean languages, verbs are divided into two major categories, neuters and actives, each of which may be further divided into intransitives, transitives, and passives.

neuter (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
   • (Can we date this quote?) South:

     In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands neuter.

2. (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 neuter noun; the neuter definite article; a neuter termination; the neuter gender

3. (grammar) Intransitive

   a neuter verb

4. (biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.

Definizione dizionario neuter

	neutro
	grammar: intransitive

neutrale

Altri significati:

(grammar) Intransitive

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

(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

to remove sex organs from an animal

person who takes no part in a contest

Belonging to the neuter grammatical gender.

(grammar) The neuter gender.

grammar: having a form which is not masculine nor feminine

archaic: neither the one thing nor the other

(biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.

To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

The neutrally determined gender of a kind of word as used by some languages.

(archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

A noun of the neuter gender.

(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.

biology: organism which at its maturity has no generative organs

grammar: intransitive verb

(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

(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.

grammar: noun of the neuter gender

having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones