Male
Evil; wicked; bad.
Same as Mail, a bag.
Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.
Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.
Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.
Consisting of males; as, a male choir.
Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.
An animal of the male sex.
A plant bearing only staminate flowers.
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Male Quotations
Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
Charlie Sheen
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret Mead
If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.
Leonardo DiCaprio
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
John Updike
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Michelangelo
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Audre Lorde
Male Translations
male in Afrikaans is manlik
male in Danish is mandlig
male in Dutch is mannelijk
male in French is connecteur, masculin, bonhomme
male in Italian is maschile, spina
male in Portuguese is macho
male in Spanish is masculino, macho, varonil
male in Swedish is manliga, hane
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