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	Gender - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Some languages have a system of grammatical gender (also known as noun classes); while a noun may be described as "masculine" or "feminine" by convention, this has no necessary connection to the natural gender of the thing described.
		Likewise, a wide variety of phenomena may have gendered characteristics ascribed to them, either by analogy to male and female bodies, such as with the gender of connectors and fasteners, or due to social norms.
		Gender assignment, when there are any indications that genital sex might not be decisive in a particular case, is normally not defined by any single definition, but by a combination of conditions, include chromoses and gonads.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Genders (2635 words)

	Gender Encyclopedia Article @ Succeeded.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some languages have a system of grammatical gender; while nouns may be classified as "masculine" or "feminine" in such languages, this is essentially a convention with little or no connection to their meaning.
		Likewise, a wide variety of phenomena have gendered characteristics ascribed to them, by analogy to male and female bodies (such as with the gender of connectors and fasteners) or due to social norms.
		Gender assignment, when there are any indications that genital sex might not be decisive in a particular case, is normally not defined by any single definition, but by a combination of conditions, including chromosomes and gonads.
	www.succeeded.org /encyclopedia/Gender (3044 words)

	Gender Encyclopedia Article @ Interviewed.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sexologist gender bender wrote in 1955, “[t]he term gender role is used to signify all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman, respectively.
		Sulawesi's fifth gender, when there are any indications that genital sex might not be decisive in a particular case, is normally not defined by any single definition, but by a combination of conditions, including chromosomes and gonads.
		Nevertheless, the cognate of "gender" (also used in the sense of "gender", though less frequently), has begun to be used by academics in the context of sex roles.
	www.interviewed.org /encyclopedia/Gender (3155 words)

	Gender Encyclopedia Article @ AceEveryInterview.com (Ace Every Interview) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gender can refer to the (biological) condition of being male or female, or less commonly [4] or gender identity, as applied to humans, animals, and plants.
		One point of view in the debate is Gender of connectors and fasteners, which suggests that gender is entirely a social construct.
		Gender, and particularly the role of ISBN 0-312-22479-6 is widely recognized as vitally important to Hydriotaphia issues.
	www.aceeveryinterview.com /encyclopedia/Gender (3179 words)

	Gender of connectors and fasteners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In electrical and mechanical trades and manufacturing, each of a pair of mating connectors or fasteners is conventionally assigned the designation male or female.
		A connector in a fixed location is a jack, and a moveable connector is a plug.
		Some connectors have both male and female connectors on opposite sides, designed to be placed between a male and female to intercept a signal or to take power.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender_of_connectors_and_fasteners (726 words)

	Electrical connector - Wikipedia Mirror
		Most electrical connectors provide an electrical connection that can be relatively easily established and separated, but connectors are also available to facilitate permanent connections.
		Plug and socket connectors are usually made up of a male plug and a female socket, although hermaphroditic connectors exist, such as the original IBM Token Ring LAN connector.
		When working with multi-pin connectors, it is helpful to have a pinout diagram to identify the wire or circuit node connected to each pin.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Physical_interface (516 words)

	Nails, Screws and Fasteners Information Portal @ Clasped.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fasteners can also be used to close a container such as a bag, a box, or an envelope; or they may involve keeping together the sides of an opening of flexible material, attaching a lid to a container, etc. There are also special purpose closing devices, e.g.
		Fasteners used in these manners are often temporary, in that they may be fastened and unfastened repeatively.
		Some types of woodworking joints make use of separate internal reinforcements, such as dowels or biscuits, which in a sense can be considered fasteners within the scope of the joint system, although on their own they are not general purpose fasteners.
	www.clasped.net (1594 words)

	Gender of connectors and fasteners - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The assignment is by direct metaphor with animal genitalia; the part bearing one or more protrusions, or which fits inside the other, being assigned as male and the part containing the corresponding indentations or fitting outside the other being female.
		In contexts where alternatives to the terms male and female are desired, "socket", "receptacle", "outlet" and "jack" are used for female connectors, and "plug" for male connectors.
		The gender of a connector is determined by the structure of its primary functional components—i.e., the conductors of an electrical connector, or the load-bearing parts of a fastener—and not by secondary features such as covers, shields or handles that may be installed for environmental protection, safe operation, etc.
	www.music.us /education/G/Gender-of-connectors-and-fasteners.htm (663 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Gender
		The word gender describes the idea that many animal species are divided into what are known as sexes, i.e.
		In social sciences, the word "gender" is sometimes used in contrast to biological sex, to emphasize a social, cultural, or psychological dimension.
		The discipline of gender studies investigates and theorizes on the nature of sex and gender.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Gender (2597 words)

	Flickr: Forums: FlickrIdeas: gender
		'gender' doesn't refer to male or female sexual organs but to 'sex' in a social context.
		By giving flickr users the opportunity to name their gender 'male', 'female' or 'select' you implement that there is nothing but female or male gender.
		[...] [Likewise,] a wide variety of phenomena may have gendered characteristics ascribed to them, either by analogy to male and female bodies, such as with the gender of connectors and fasteners, or due to social norms.
	www.flickr.com /forums/ideas/29762 (286 words)

	GENDER BLOG - Exotica Park - Sexy People, Sexy Photos, Sexy Stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The stories of Mulu and Coco are among the wrenching and all-too-common experiences included in a new report on gender equality and the state of the world's...
		However, in many instances, the term gender acts as a euphemism for sex, and the distinction between sex and gender is only fitfully observed.Haig, D. "The inexorable rise of gender and the decline of sex: social change in academic titles, 1945-2001." Archives of Sexual Behavior 33: 87-96.
		Joan Roughgarden argues that in some non-human animal species, there can also be said to be more than two genders, in that there might be multiple templates for behavior available to individual organisms with a given biological sex.Roughgarden, Joan.
	www.exoticapark.com /models/gender.php?v=9599 (2871 words)

	fasteners - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Phrases that include fasteners: captivated fasteners, captive fasteners, gender of connectors and fasteners, industrial fasteners institute, mechanical fasteners, more...
		Words similar to fasteners: fastener, snaps, tacks, more...
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	connectors - OneLook Dictionary Search
		We found 4 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word connectors:
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		Phrases that include connectors: audio connectors, coaxial connectors, fixed b with rigid connectors, framatome connectors international, gender of connectors and fasteners, more...
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	Gender Ultrsound Picture >> Baby Ultasound Gender Determination - Accuracy Utrasound Gender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gender Ultrsound Picture and Baby Ultasound Gender Determination information: Gender Utrasound accuracy and prediction Ultrasaund week, fetal etc.
		As a verb, it is used for to breed in the King James Bible:According to Aristotle, the Greek philosopher Protagoras used the terms masculine, feminine, and neuter to classify nouns, introducing the concept of grammatical gender.
		In 1926, Fowler's Modern English Usage suggested that gender.
	www.better2know.info /science/gender-ultrasound.htm (301 words)

	Nails, Screws and Fasteners Information Portal @ Clasped.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nails, Screws and Fasteners Information Portal @ Clasped.org
		A fastener is a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together.
		This page was last updated on: Sun Dec 17 13:58:20 2006
	www.clasped.org (1586 words)

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