Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - female
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Female
female
~1 adj 1 belonging to the sex that can have babies or produce eggs (a female spider) 2 a female plant or flower produces fruit 3 technical a female part of a piece of equipment has a hole into which another part fits (a female plug) - femaleness n ~2 n 1 a person or animal that belongs to the sex that can have babies or produce eggs 2 a woman or girl (the prettiest female in Savannah)
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(females) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Someone who is female is a woman or a girl. ...a sixteen-piece dance band with a female singer... Only 13 per cent of consultants are female. ? male ADJ 2. Women and girls are sometimes referred to as females when they are being considered as a type. Hay fever affects males more than females. ? male N-COUNT 3. Female matters and things relate to, belong to, or affect women rather than men. ...female infertility. ...a purveyor of female undergarments... ? male ADJ: ADJ n 4. You can refer to any creature that can lay eggs or produce babies from its body as a female. Each female will lay just one egg in April or May. ? male N-COUNT • Female is also an adjective. ...the scent given off by the female aphid to attract the male. ? male ADJ 5. A female flower or plant contains the part that will become the fruit when it is fertilized. Figs have male and female flowers. ? male ADJ: usu ADJ n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) of, relating to, or being the sex that bears young or produces eggs (2) pistillate b. (1) composed of members of the ~ sex the ~ population (2) characteristic of girls or women composed for ~ voices a ~ name 2. having some quality (as gentleness) associated with the ~ sex 3. designed with a hollow or groove into which a corresponding male part fits the ~ coupling of a hose • ~ness noun II. noun Etymology: Middle English, alteration of femel, femelle, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French femele, from Medieval Latin femella, from Latin, girl, diminutive of femina Date: 14th century 1. a. a ~ person ; a woman or a girl b. an individual that bears young or produces large usually immobile gametes (as eggs) that are fertilized by small usually motile gametes of a male 2. a pistillate plant ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 of the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs. 2 (of plants or their parts) fruit-bearing; having a pistil and no stamens. 3 of or consisting of women or female animals or female plants. 4 (of a screw, socket, etc.) manufactured hollow to receive a corresponding inserted part. --n. a female person, animal, or plant. Phrases and idioms female impersonator a male performer impersonating a woman. Derivatives femaleness n. Etymology: ME f. OF femelle (n.) f. L femella dimin. of femina a woman, assim. to male ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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охватывающий, объемлющий с внутренней резьбой (о патрубках) охватывающая концевая часть элемента (трубы, штока, штанги, стержня) ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
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1) внутренний 2) гаечный 3) гнездовой 4) надеваемый 5) охватывающий female pipe bend — охватывающее колено трубы - female blade - female connector - female contact - female gage - female gauge - female plug ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. особь женского пола; пренебр. женщина there is a young female to see you, sir —- сэр, вас хочет видеть какая-то девица 2. зоол. самка 3. бот. женская особь 4. тех. охватывающая или объемлющая деталь 5. женского пола, женский female child —- девочка female relations —- родственницы female patients —- пациентки female lead —- кин. профес. главная женская роль female insect —- самка насекомого female bee —- пчелиная матка female hemp plant —- бот. матерка, женское растение конопли female lamb —- ярка 6. женский; для женщин female education —- женское образование female weakness —- женская слабость female suffrage —- избирательное право для женщин 7. тех. охватывающий, объемлющий 8. тех. наружный, внешний (о поверхности) 9. тех. с внутренней резьбой female screw —- гайка; гаечная резьба female thread —- внутренняя резьба ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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weakness женская слабость FEMALE line женская линия FEMALE 1. noun 1) женщина (часто пренебр.) 2) zool. самка; матка 3) bot. женская особь 2. adj. 1) женского пола, женский - female child - female insect - female suffrage - female weakness 2) tech. охватывающий, обнимающий; с внутренней нарезкой - female screw Syn: see feminine FEMALE child девочка FEMALE insect насекомое-самка FEMALE suffrage избирательное право для женщин FEMALE screw гайка; гаечная резьба ...Англо-русский словарь
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