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单词 masculinize
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Definition of masculinize in English:

masculinize

(British masculinise)
verb ˈmaskjəlɪnʌɪzˈmaskyələˌnīz
[with object]
  • 1Induce male physiological characteristics in.

    male sex steroids masculinize female hyenas
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The tiny organs make enough of the hormone to steer the rest of the baby's body into developing a typically male form and probably it masculinises its brain in small but important ways as well.
    • And in female to males you only give an androgen, that's to masculinise the body.
    • It further follows that, should systemizing be a predominantly masculine trait, the agent that masculinizes the brain, prenatal testosterone, may be also play a central role in both systemizing and autism.
    • Testosterone has an androgenic, or masculinizing, function and an anabolic, or tissue-building, function.
    • The circulating hormone not only masculinizes the body but affects the developing brain, influencing the size of specific structures and the wiring of nerve cells.
    • The white male becomes masculinized through the castration or symbolic feminization of his foil, the black male.
    • The presence of this extra chromosome results in failure to masculinize, small testes and sterility.
    • For one thing, it can masculinize a woman, causing both facial hair growth and a deepening of the voice.
    • Similarly, lf mutations in genes that promote the female fate can masculinize the XX germline (a Mog phenotype), such that it fails to switch to oogenesis and instead continues to produce sperm during adulthood.
    • Developmentally, estrogens might be synthesized only locally in the telencephalon of male Zebra Finches to masculinize the neural circuits controlling song.
    • Adkins-Regan and Wade also found that masculinized female Zebra Finches (with sex-reversed gonads) exhibit male-typical bill coloration.
    • These androgens will masculinize a female fetus in utero.
    • ‘These drugs predictably and sometimes permanently masculinise females,’ said Dr Charles Yesalis of Penn State University, who first studied steroid abuse in high schools in 1987.
    • This strain was propagated successfully at 25°, but on shifting to a lower temperature, all animals become partly or wholly masculinized, and the strain dies out.
    • Genes that tend to masculinize the fetus will increase when there is an advantage to having male offspring.
    • In XX flies whose soma was masculinized by mutations in tra, the sexual identity of the germline appeared to be mixed; both female and male molecular markers were expressed.
    1. 1.1 Make (someone or something) masculine in nature or appearance.
      the women in the play find subtle ways to masculinize their performances
      a slightly masculinized swagger
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sport and physical activity are masculinized domains.
      • The importance of feminized images and the strongly masculinized language of leadership are not given much prominence.
      • The model of academic performativity which emerges is one which is premised on a distinctly masculinised form of labour, situated in a distinctly masculinised culture.
      • Black and mulatto women, on the other hand, were masculinized in paintings which portrayed black women dominating Spanish and mestizo men and treating their children in neglectful and decidedly unmotherly ways.
      • What, so I have to masculinize myself in order to be a lesbian?
      • Perhaps female comics have been masculinized, which is why you see so many lesbian comedians.
      • The chapter on Alcott follows two figures - the wounded soldier and the competent nurse - as they become symbols of feminized male and masculinized female.
      • This may place the individual who prefers his or her same gender as an intermediate ‘third sex’, or situate the male homosexual as effeminate and the female homosexual as masculinized.
      • With social networks largely confined to highly masculinized spaces, women had difficulty entering the industry in any capacity other than as their husbands' assistants.
      • Again today, the virtual female gains on credibility as she is masculinized.
      • Women were initially banned from cheering at many schools because of the fear that they would become masculinised.
      • Heavily masculinised contact sports celebrate and reinforce dominant roles of gender.
      • Within this economy, actual women do of course exist, but become masculinized, or alternatively hystericized, by expressing active sexuality.
      • This finding suggests that those girls who are most behaviourally masculinized as children are also the most likely to evolve a bisexual or homosexual erotic orientation as adults.
      • The belief that participation in competitive sports tends to masculinize females has been found in research using a variety of subject populations.
      • When a female is in her most fertile phase, her preferences shift toward more masculinized faces.
      • This figuration of gender does not create a masculinized female, but rather a gendered-male character reconstituted in the visual markers of both sexes.
      • In other words, boys became increasingly masculinized, while girls retained their feminine interests as they developed.

Derivatives

  • masculinization

  • noun
    • In utero, female fetuses exposed to excess androgens show masculinization and ambiguous genitalia at birth while male fetuses appear normal.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This androgen exposure causes partial to complete masculinization of the external genitalia in utero, and the masculinized genitalia in the newborn female typically lead to diagnosis within days of birth.
      • If you see this, you are very likely to see change in every other aspect of masculinisation as well.
      • Patients usually retain normal secondary sexual characteristics and rarely exhibit virilizing signs such as deepening of the voice, temporal balding or masculinization of body habitus.
      • Demographers, doctors, and politicians alike blamed moral decay and declining birthrates on the masculinization of women, women working outside the home, and women's economic independence.
 
 

Definition of masculinize in US English:

masculinize

(British masculinise)
verbˈmaskyələˌnīz
[with object]
  • 1Induce male physiological characteristics in.

    male sex steroids masculinize female hyenas
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This strain was propagated successfully at 25°, but on shifting to a lower temperature, all animals become partly or wholly masculinized, and the strain dies out.
    • The tiny organs make enough of the hormone to steer the rest of the baby's body into developing a typically male form and probably it masculinises its brain in small but important ways as well.
    • Testosterone has an androgenic, or masculinizing, function and an anabolic, or tissue-building, function.
    • In XX flies whose soma was masculinized by mutations in tra, the sexual identity of the germline appeared to be mixed; both female and male molecular markers were expressed.
    • Developmentally, estrogens might be synthesized only locally in the telencephalon of male Zebra Finches to masculinize the neural circuits controlling song.
    • Similarly, lf mutations in genes that promote the female fate can masculinize the XX germline (a Mog phenotype), such that it fails to switch to oogenesis and instead continues to produce sperm during adulthood.
    • Adkins-Regan and Wade also found that masculinized female Zebra Finches (with sex-reversed gonads) exhibit male-typical bill coloration.
    • The white male becomes masculinized through the castration or symbolic feminization of his foil, the black male.
    • ‘These drugs predictably and sometimes permanently masculinise females,’ said Dr Charles Yesalis of Penn State University, who first studied steroid abuse in high schools in 1987.
    • And in female to males you only give an androgen, that's to masculinise the body.
    • For one thing, it can masculinize a woman, causing both facial hair growth and a deepening of the voice.
    • The presence of this extra chromosome results in failure to masculinize, small testes and sterility.
    • The circulating hormone not only masculinizes the body but affects the developing brain, influencing the size of specific structures and the wiring of nerve cells.
    • It further follows that, should systemizing be a predominantly masculine trait, the agent that masculinizes the brain, prenatal testosterone, may be also play a central role in both systemizing and autism.
    • Genes that tend to masculinize the fetus will increase when there is an advantage to having male offspring.
    • These androgens will masculinize a female fetus in utero.
    1. 1.1 Cause to appear or seem masculine.
      the women in the play find subtle ways to masculinize their performances
      a slightly masculinized swagger
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When a female is in her most fertile phase, her preferences shift toward more masculinized faces.
      • Sport and physical activity are masculinized domains.
      • This finding suggests that those girls who are most behaviourally masculinized as children are also the most likely to evolve a bisexual or homosexual erotic orientation as adults.
      • This figuration of gender does not create a masculinized female, but rather a gendered-male character reconstituted in the visual markers of both sexes.
      • The chapter on Alcott follows two figures - the wounded soldier and the competent nurse - as they become symbols of feminized male and masculinized female.
      • What, so I have to masculinize myself in order to be a lesbian?
      • The belief that participation in competitive sports tends to masculinize females has been found in research using a variety of subject populations.
      • Black and mulatto women, on the other hand, were masculinized in paintings which portrayed black women dominating Spanish and mestizo men and treating their children in neglectful and decidedly unmotherly ways.
      • This may place the individual who prefers his or her same gender as an intermediate ‘third sex’, or situate the male homosexual as effeminate and the female homosexual as masculinized.
      • Heavily masculinised contact sports celebrate and reinforce dominant roles of gender.
      • The model of academic performativity which emerges is one which is premised on a distinctly masculinised form of labour, situated in a distinctly masculinised culture.
      • Again today, the virtual female gains on credibility as she is masculinized.
      • Women were initially banned from cheering at many schools because of the fear that they would become masculinised.
      • With social networks largely confined to highly masculinized spaces, women had difficulty entering the industry in any capacity other than as their husbands' assistants.
      • The importance of feminized images and the strongly masculinized language of leadership are not given much prominence.
      • Within this economy, actual women do of course exist, but become masculinized, or alternatively hystericized, by expressing active sexuality.
      • Perhaps female comics have been masculinized, which is why you see so many lesbian comedians.
      • In other words, boys became increasingly masculinized, while girls retained their feminine interests as they developed.
 
 
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