Male meaning in English

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Definition

a male: a man or boy noun
a female: a girl or woman noun

Examples

  • "Sponsoring the female Olympic beach volleyball team."
  • "We're all female flight attendants, and we'd like a guy to even things out."
  • "Hannah : Well I can't speak for all female managers, Jean, but I can spare you a minute."
  • "The 15-24 male demographic has been affected by rumors of breast growth by extensive exposure to unisex perfumes."
  • "Susie : As I mentioned in my email, we are considering marketing a unisex line of products which obviously would appeal to both male and female consumers."
  • "Susie : Wayne is a typical working-class male."
  • "I am a colonel, and a human male."
  • "The other female monkeys are very jealous."
  • "Hello attractive female!"
  • "On the contrary, we are observing some interesting interactions between her and the younger male monkeys (and one female)."
  • "The female monkey we met, what's her name again?"
  • "Ladies and gentlemen, here are the nominees for the Smelly Award for "Male fragrance of the year"."
  • "The proportion of 15 to 24-year-old men in the male population is projected to continue increasing for the next five years."
  • "It could bridge the gap between male and female energies, yin and yang."
  • "It's a question of male pride."
  • "-Yellow-haired female."
  • "Bruno : I was saying that I enjoy the company of males."
  • "Philip : Yes, we encourage our females to wear skirt suits."
Exercise 1
Jean Marron is signing himself up to MyFace, a social networking website. Can you help him complete the online application form?

Welcome to MyFace!!!

MyFace is a website that allows you to waste your time at work, spy on your partner, and forward spam messages to your entourage!

To join MyFace, please complete the registration data by filling in all the fields found below.

First name:

Last name:

Sex:

Relationship status:

: 30 January, 1978

: 1m60

: 68kg

: Aquarius

Interests:
Jean Marron is signing himself up to MyFace, a social networking website. Can you help him complete the online application form?

Welcome to MyFace!!!

MyFace is a website that allows you to waste your time at work, spy on your partner, and forward spam messages to your entourage!

To join MyFace, please complete the registration data by filling in all the fields found below.

First name: Jean 1

Last name: Marron 2

Sex: Male 3

Relationship status: Single 4

Birthday 5: 30 January, 1978

Height 6: 1m60

Weight 7: 68kg

Star sign 8: Aquarius

Interests: I love eating French food! 9
Surfing the internet for girls! 10
1 Jean: "Jean" is the appropriate first name to enter here. Sometimes this part of a person's name is referred to as their "Christian name". Example: "The president doesn't like people calling him by his first name".
1 Marron: This is incorrect. This is Jean's "last name" or "surname". This is not the part of the form where he should enter this part of his name.
1 Jean Marron: This is incorrect. This is Jean's "full name", not his "first name".
1 Marron, Jean: This is incorrect. We looking for Jean's "first name" (Jean), not a variant of his "full name". Note that Jean's "full name" is usually written as "Jean Marron", not "Marron, Jean".
2 Marron: "Marron" is the appropriate part of Jean's name to enter here. This is his "last name" or "surname".
2 Jean: This is incorrect. This is Jean's "first name" or "Christian name". This is not the part of the form where he should enter this part of his name.
2 Frenchie: This is incorrect. "Frenchie" might be Jean's "nickname", but certainly not his "last name" or "surname".
2 My mother's name was Pineau: This is incorrect. "Pineau" may be Jean's mother's "maiden name" but not his last name. A "maiden name" is the surname of a woman before she marries (and takes the surname of her husband).
3 Male: This is correct. In answer to the question "what is your sex?" there are two answers, "male" or "female", and sometimes "neuter" if you speak German, or have been castrated. Jean is a "man" so his sex is "male". The term "male" is often used as a neutral term in statistics to refer to "men".
3 Man: This is incorrect. Jean is a "man" but his sex is "male". "Male" emphasises the physical or sexual characteristics of a man.
3 Medium: This is incorrect. "Medium" would refer to Jean's "size". It is not common practice to ask about the "size" of one's sexual organs on these kind of forms. Being a virile Frenchman, it is not uncommon for Jean to think with an organ other than his brain, although this is not the time or place!
3 Yes please!: Unfortunately, this purpose of this question is not to measure Jean's desire to have sex, but to determine his gender. Being a virile Frenchman, it is not uncommon for Jean to think with an organ other than his brain, although this is not the time or place!
4 Single: This is correct. "Single" describes being "unmarried" or sometimes "without a partner", for example: It was difficult to look after her children because she was a single mother. "Relationship status" is similar to "marital status" although it is less official, both terms look at the condition of being married or unmarried, and if someone has a partner.
4 Happy: This is incorrect. Although Jean is mostly a happy person, his "relationship status" does not describe his state of mind, but whether he has a partner, is single, or married.
4 French: This is incorrect. One's "relationship status" is not equivalent to one's "nationality". Jean's nationality is "French", but his "relationship status" describes if he has a partner or is married.
4 IT support officer: This is incorrect. One's "relationship status" is not equivalent to one's "job status". Jean's job is "IT support officer" ("IT" stands for "information technology"), however this has nothing to do with his "relationship status".
5 Birthday: This is correct. A "birthday" refers to the date of one's birth, and is also synonymous with the term "date of birth". Example: Luna shares the same birthday as Brigitte Bardot.
5 Anniversary: This is incorrect. An "anniversary" is a date which commemorates an event: a wedding, a death, the opening of a store, etc. Since there is no other information given , this date must refer to Jean's "birthday".
5 Born the: This is incorrect. "Born the..." is never used as a term to indicate one's "birthday" or "date of birth".
5 Place of Birth: This is incorrect. Don't confuse "place of birth" with "birthday" (or "date of birth"). Jean's "place of birth" is either a town or a hospital: in his case "Nantes" in France.
6 Height: This is correct. This measurement is Jean's "height" (in metres and centimetres): how "tall" he is, or the distance between his feet and the top of his head.
6 Size: This is incorrect. "Size" generally refers to the physical dimensions of something. It does not accurately describe the distance between the feet and the top of the head. It can describe the dimensions of clothing (ex: I have a European size 44 shoe) or how big something is (ex: the cat is the size of a small lion).
6 High: This is incorrect. This is the incorrect form to use here. As a noun, "high" can be used to describe the highest point, for example: This month saw a record high in sales of Delavigne's perfumes.
6 Tall: This is the incorrect form to use here. "Tall" is most used as an adjective to mean "having a large height", for example: Philip doesn't like to date tall women, because they make him look small.
7 Weight: This is correct. This measurement is Jean's "weight" (in kilos and grammes): how "heavy" he is, or the quantity of his mass.
7 Weigh: This is incorrect. To "weigh" is the verb form, which doesn't make sense in this context. Jean "weighs" 68kg, but his "weight" is 68kg.
7 Weigth: This is incorrect. Note the correct spelling of "weight".
7 Kilo: This is incorrect. It is not normal to refer to someone's "kilo" when talking about how heavy they are.
8 Star sign: This is correct. Jean's "star sign" is Aquarius, as he was born on 30 January. We can also use the terms "astrological sign" or "zodiac sign". "Aquarius" is an Air sign, equivalent to the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac. This makes Jean ideally suited to working with computers and playing brass musical instruments, like the trombone.
8 Favorite drink: This is incorrect. As far as I know, there is no drink called the Aquarius. If there was one, it would be a grapefruit-flavoured sports drink.
8 Hometown: This is incorrect. As far as I know, there is no town called Aquarius. If there was one, it would full of hippies smoking pot, and pretending they were living in the 60s.
8 Favorite sexual position: This is incorrect. As far as I know, there is no sexual position called Aquarius. If there was one, it would certainly feature a lot of foreplay and a blast off to Uranus.
9 I love eating French food!: This is correct. Usually state verbs like "to love" (and "to hate") are not used in progressive verb tenses and are followed by another verb in the gerund (ING) form.
9 I enjoy to eat French food!: This is incorrect. The verb "to enjoy" is never followed by another verb in the full infinitive (with "to") and is only followed by a verb in the gerund (ING) form. Example: I enjoy beating the English at tennis.
9 I'm loving French food!: This is incorrect. While the progressive form is gradually being used in state verbs (like "to love"), it is still considered to be unacceptable in written English. Unfortunately companies like McDonalds make it hard for English teachers to maintain this rule, especially when they introduce advertising slogans like "I'm lovin" it'... urrghh!
9 To enjoy French food!: This is incorrect. When listing interests the gerund can be used, but never the full infinitive at the start of a sentence. Example: -What are your main hobbies? -Playing volleyball with my friends at the gym, eating hotdogs, walking the streets at night...
10 Surfing the internet for girls!: This is the correct answer. When listing interests and activities, the gerund (ING) form of the verb is often used. For example: Eating too many hamburgers was the cause of my health problems.
10 I surfing on the internet for beautiful women!: This is incorrect. To form the present progressive tense, an auxiliary verb is needed. In this case, however, it would be more correct to use the present simple tense (to describe habitual actions) or the gerund form (to describe activities).
10 To surf the internet to see lovely women!: This is incorrect. When describing interests and activities it is uncommon to use the full infinitive form, and the gerund is used more often.
10 Wow! The internet, he is great to see girls!: This is incorrect. Since the "internet" takes a neutral genre in English (as for objects and animals etc), "it" is used as a pronoun rather than "he". Example: I love my cat, it is very friendly.
Exercise 2
Choose the TRUE statements from the list below according to the dialogue.

There may be more than one correct answer!
Choose the TRUE statements from the list below according to the dialogue.

There may be more than one correct answer!
This statement is true. Hannah tells Philip that she is "allergic to dogs", meaning that she has allergy problems when she is around these animals. She may cough and sneeze when she is near dogs for example. Allergies to animals are common, but people may also be allergic to pollens, milk, nuts, etc.
This statement is false. After examining Philip's new dog, Brian claims that the dog has 8 nipples (projections of the skin through which milk is delivered), and no "dingaling", (an infantile term for a penis). This tells us that Philip's dog is a female, or girl dog.
This statement is false. At the conclusion of this scene, Philip decides to keep his dog, and not "give it away". Philip's decision to keep the dog is based both on his desire to reconcile with his attractive ex-girlfriend, but also because neither Hannah nor Brian will take the dog from him.
This statement is true. Philip explains to his colleagues that if he "takes care of" or "is responsible for" his ex-girlfriend's dog, then she may "get back together" with him. To "get back together (with an ex-girlfriend)" is to reconcile with them, or to renew a relationship that was previously troubled. At the end of the scene, Philip exclaims that he is "keeping this dog, because (his) ex-girlfriend is super hot", suggesting that he wants to reconcile with her.
This statement is false. Philip never "purchased" or "bought" his new dog, rather it was left at his apartment by an ex-girlfriend. "To purchase (an item at a store)" is to pay for it, or exchange money for it.

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