male

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation

   a male infant

2. 2
   adj

   for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys

   the male lead

3. 3
   adj

   characteristic of a man

   a deep male voice

4. 4
   adj

   Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.

   male writers

5. 5
   adj

   Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)

   stereotypically male interests

6. 6
   adj

   Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.

   the male chromosome

7. 7
   adj

   Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.

   The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.

8. 8
   adj

   Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).

   Furthermore, male bacteria with fi + R factors, which inhibit the function of F (fi fertility inhibition) (Watanabe et al., 1964a), cannot form specific cell pairs at high frequencies. On the contrary, the formation of[…]

Etymology

* As a Welsh surname, from the personal name Mael, from Middle Welsh mael (“prince”). * As an English surname of Norman origin, contaminated from many Old French sources, such as mail (“hammer”), maille (“chainmail”), maille (“denier”), or esmal (“enamel”). Compare Mailer. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English male (“bag, pouch”). * Also as an English surname of Norman origin, from the source of male (“male, male adult”). * Also as an English surname, from Middle English mele (“meal, flour”) (compare Millman) or from Old Norse melr (“sandhill”). Compare Meil. * As a Slovene surname…