neuter

«neuter» in Mova's school dictionary: to have a vet do an operation so it can't have babies — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (neuter); verb (neuter, neuters, neutered, neutering)

meaning for a pupil

1) To neuter a pet animal is to have a vet do an operation so it can't have babies. tree →

2) (grammar) Neuter means neither masculine nor feminine; some languages, like German, have neuter nouns. tree →

3) Neuter can mean having no sex organs, like worker bees. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life about pets (neutering cats and dogs). In language lessons about grammatical gender in German, Latin and Ukrainian.

examples

• We had our cat neutered at the vet. tree →
• Neutering helps stop too many stray kittens. tree →
• In German, «das Kind» is neuter. tree →
• English nouns don't have neuter gender in grammar. tree →
• Worker ants are neuter. tree →
• The vet neuters dogs on Tuesdays. tree →

note

Past: neutered. Do not confuse with «neutral» (not taking sides). «Neutered» animals are often called «spayed» (females) or «castrated» (males).

In the corpora

• "Fixed" (US) means neutered or spayed, an operation so the pet cannot have babies.
• "Done" (UK) means a pet has been neutered.
• "Seen to" (UK) means a pet has been neutered.
• "Altered" (US) means a pet has been neutered or spayed.
• "Doctored" (old-fashioned US) means a pet has been neutered.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «neuter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.