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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#m1)

2) (grammar) Neuter means neither masculine nor feminine; some languages, like German, have neuter nouns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#m2)

3) Neuter can mean having no sex organs, like worker bees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x1)
- Neutering helps stop too many stray kittens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x2)
- In German, «das Kind» is neuter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x3)
- English nouns don't have neuter gender in grammar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x4)
- Worker ants are neuter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x5)
- The vet neuters dogs on Tuesdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/22/)
- ["Done" (UK) means a pet has been neutered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/23/)
- ["Seen to" (UK) means a pet has been neutered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/24/)
- ["Altered" (US) means a pet has been neutered or spayed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/5/)
- ["Doctored" (old-fashioned US) means a pet has been neutered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «neuter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neuter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.