different between male vs book

English

Etymology

From Middle English male, borrowed from Old French malle, masle (Modern French mâle), from Latin masculus (“masculine, a male”), diminutive of m?s (“male, masculine”). Doublet of macho.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: m?l, IPA^(key): /me?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: mail

Adjective

male (not generally comparable, comparative maler or more male, superlative malest or most male)

1. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]

   male writers

   the leading male and female singers

   a male bird feeding a seed to a female

   in bee colonies, all drones are male

   intersex male patients

   • 1995, Gill Van Hasselt, Childbirth: Your Choices for Managing Pain (Taylor Pub, ?ISBN):

     We got the hang of [caring for a baby], Kate and I, with some quiet, surprising guidance from a gentle male nurse whose touching lack of intrusion was so instinctive as to seem part of the pattern.

   • 2016, Tobias Raun, Out Online (?ISBN):

     Whereas many other trans male vloggers use the videos to assert a conventionally recognizable masculinity through sculpting and carrying their bodies as well as dressing and talking in masculine-coded ways, Carson explores and plays with ways of expressing femininity within (trans) maleness.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
2. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)

   stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration

   • 2006, Bonnie Roberts, Bruises on the Heart (?ISBN), page 118:

     A bright light was shone in her eye and then she heard a kind, male voice who she figured must be Dr. Smith. “Yes, let her rest now, but keep an eye on her blood pressure and her pulse. Check her about every 15 or 20 minutes. Call me if any problem occurs.”

   • 2004, Mino Vianello, Gwen Moore, Women and Men in Political and Business Elites: A Comparative Study (?ISBN):

     More than that, we cannot find the same dynamics within female career trajectories as in the other two country groups, because the time-structure of female and male careers already shows great similarity within the older generation of elites. In addition, the pattern of the relation between female and male careers remains the same over time.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
3. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.

   the male chromosome;   like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones

4. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
   • 2012, Sinéad Leleu, Michaela Greck-Ismair, German Pen Pals Made Easy KS3

     If you are describing a female noun, you must make the adjective feminine by adding an 'e'. If you describe a male noun, you add an 'er'. For neutral nouns you add an 'es'.

5. (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware. [from 16th c.]
   • 1982, Popular Science, page 119:

     Male adapter connects female pipe threads to polyethylene cold-water pipe; [...] female flare coupling connects male pipe threads to flared copper or plastic;

Synonyms

• manly, mannish, masculine
• (figurative: of instuments, etc): plug, pin

Coordinate terms

• female; androgynous; intersex; non-binary
• (grammar): female: see also masculine

Derived terms

• male-assigned, cis male, trans male
• male-dominated

Translations

Noun

male (plural males)

1. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
   1. A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
   2. An animal of the sex that has testes.
   3. A plant of the masculine sex.

Antonyms

• female

Hyponyms

• man, boy

Translations

See also

• macho
• ? (symbol for male)
• sex, gender, gender identity

Anagrams

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Leam, Lema, alme, amel, lame, lamé, leam, lema, meal, mela, mela-

Afar

Etymology

From maléey (“no”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??le/

Particle

malé

1. no

Synonyms

• maléey

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?l?/, [?mæ?l?]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German m?len (“to draw, paint”), from Proto-Germanic *m?l?n?, which could be related to *mail? (“spot, blemish, mark”). Cognate with Icelandic mála (“to paint”).

Verb

male (imperative mal, present maler, past malede or malte, past participle malet or malt)

1. To paint.

Derived terms

• maler (“painter”)
• maleri (“painting”)
• maling (“paint”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mala, from Proto-Germanic *malan? (“to grind”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, rub, break up”). Cognate with Icelandic mala.

Verb

male (imperative mal, infinitive at male, present tense maler, past tense malede, perfect tense er/har malet)

1. To grind, mill.

Derived terms

• maling (“grinding”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

male

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of maal

Verb

male

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of malen

Esperanto

Etymology

From prefix mal- (antonym) +? -e (indicates adverbs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?male/
• Hyphenation: ma?le
• Rhymes: -ale
• Audio:

Adverb

male

1. on the contrary
2. opposingly; in opposition

Estonian

Etymology

From malev (“army”), a word attested in the 13th century Livonian Chronicle of Henry. Coined by Ado Grenzstein in the 19th century.

Noun

male (genitive male, partitive malet)

1. (board games) chess

Declension

See also

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l?

Verb

male

1. inflection of malen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Italian

Etymology

From Latin male.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.le/

Adverb

male (comparative: peggio; superlative: malissimo)

1. badly, wrongly

   Antonym: bene

Noun

male m (plural mali)

1. evil, harm
2. pain, ache, illness, sickness, disease

Antonyms

• bene

Derived terms

Related terms

• malfare
• malo
• malvagio

Adjective

male

1. (archaic) feminine plural of malo (“bad”)

See also

• dolore

Anagrams

• alme
• lame
• mela

Latin

Etymology

From malus (“bad, wicked”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.le/, [?mä???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.le/, [?m??l?]

Adverb

male (comparative p?ius, superlative pessim?)

1. badly
2. wrongly
3. cruelly, wickedly
4. not much; feebly

Derived terms

• maled?c?
• malefaci?
• n?n male

Related terms

• malus

Descendants

References

• male in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• male in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• male in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch m?len, from Old Dutch *malan, from Proto-West Germanic *malan, from Proto-Germanic *malan?.

Verb

male

1. To mill.

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mála and Middle Low German malen

Verb

male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)

1. To paint.

See also

• måle (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mala

Verb

male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past mol or malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)

1. To grind or mill (to make smaller by breaking with a device).
2. To purr (of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented)

Derived terms

• den som kommer først til mølla, får først malt (to mill)
• hvitmalt (painted white)
• maleri (painting)
• male seg inn i et hjørne (to paint)
• maling (paint, painting)
• rødmalt (painted red)
• skjønnmale (to paint)
• umalt (both senses)

References

• “male” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

male (present tense mel, past tense mol, supine male, past participle malen, present participle malande, imperative mal)

1. Alternative form of mala

Etymology 2

Verb

male (present tense malar, past tense mala, past participle mala, passive infinitive malast, present participle malande, imperative mal)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by måle, to paint.

Old French

Alternative forms

• malle

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mala, from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”).

Noun

male f (oblique plural males, nominative singular male, nominative plural males)

1. pack, bag

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: male
  • ? Middle English: male, maile, mayll
    • English: mail
    • Scots: male, mail
  • ?? Irish: mála (or perhaps via English)
• Middle French: malle
  • French: malle
  • ? Portuguese: mala
  • ? Spanish: mala
• Gallo: mol
• Walloon: male (Forrières)

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

male

1. locative singular of mala (“dirt”)

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin male. Compare Italian male.

Adverb

male

1. badly

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

male

1. inflection of mal:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bo?ok, IPA^(key): /b?k/
• enPR: bo?ok IPA^(key): /bu?k/ (still sometimes northern England; otherwise obsolete)
• plural
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: buck (accents without the foot–?strut split)

Etymology 1

From Middle English booke, book, bok, from Old English b?c, from Proto-West Germanic *b?k, from Proto-Germanic *b?ks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”).

Alternative forms

• booke (archaic)

Noun

book (plural books)

1. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
   • 1962, James East Irby translating Luis Borges as "The Library of Babel":

     I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: no book can be a ladder, although no doubt there are books which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder.

   • 1983, Steve Horelick & al., "Reading Rainbow":

     I can be anything.
     Take a look!
     It's in a book:
     A reading rainbow.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 51:

     Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’

   She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.

   He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.

2. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.

   I have three copies of his first book.

3. A major division of a long work.

   Genesis is the first book of the Bible.

   Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.

   Synonyms: tome, volume

4. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).

   I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.

5. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.

   a book of stamps

   a book of raffle tickets

   Synonym: booklet

6. (theater) The script of a musical or opera.

   Synonym: libretto

7. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.

   Synonyms: account, record

8. (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
9. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
10. (poker slang) four of a kind
11. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
12. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
13. (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
14. (figuratively) Any source of instruction.
15. (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
    • 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero (page 11)

      The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation.

    • 1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly (volume 21, page 36)

      On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:book

Hyponyms

• See Thesaurus:book

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See book/translations § Noun.

See also

• incunable
• scroll
• tome
• volume

Etymology 2

From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English b?cian, ?eb?cian, from the noun (see above).

Verb

book (third-person singular simple present books, present participle booking, simple past and past participle booked)

2. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

   Synonym: reserve

3. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.

   They booked that message from the hill

   Synonyms: make a note of, note down, record, write down

4. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.

   The police booked him for driving too fast.

5. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
6. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.

   He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap.

   Synonyms: bomb, hurtle, rocket, speed, shoot, whiz

7. To record bets as bookmaker.
8. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.

   The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.

9. (intransitive, slang) To leave.

   He was here earlier, but he booked.

Derived terms

Translations

See book/translations § Verb.

Etymology 3

From Middle English book, bok, from Old English b?c, from Proto-Germanic *b?k, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakan? (“to bake”).

Verb

book

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake

References

Anagrams

• Boko, Koob, boko, bòkò, kobo

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch boec, from Old Dutch buok, from Proto-Germanic *b?ks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?k/

Noun

book n (plural beuk)

1. book

Mansaka

Noun

book

1. piece

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English b?c.

Noun

book (plural books)

1. Alternative form of booke

Etymology 2

From Old English b?c.

Noun

book (plural books)

1. Alternative form of bouk

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

book

1. imperative of booke