genus, genesis-, -gen, -gene, -genesis, -genetic, -genic, -geny, -genous

To bring a situation, quality, or result into existence or to give rise to, to cause, to create: Better class discussions were engendered when the students did all their homework and prepared themselves for the lessons. © ALL rights are reserved.
© ALL rights are reserved.

Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.

Etymology: "constructor of military engines", from Old French engigneor, from Late Latin ingeniare, from Latin ingenium, "inborn qualities, talent".

Producing erotic feelings; often a reference to parts of the body that are sensitive to sexual arousal.

1. A science and practice that deals with applications of engineering and construction facts and scientific methods of a variety of construction and legal problems: Forensic engineering can involve the investigation of intellectual property assertions, particularly those of patents.
2. The investigation of materials, products, structures or components that break down or do not operate or function as intended: The purpose of forensic engineering is to locate the cause or causes of failure with the objective of improving the performances of the various parts of the equipment.

The physical condition that indicates whether a person is a female (woman or girl) or is masculine (man or boy): One use of the term gender is that it presents a grammatical category which is used to classify nouns, pronouns, adjectives; and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on sexual or bodily characteristics which determine an agreement with modifiers, references, or various grammatical forms.

The gender of a word indicates whether it is masculine (male), feminine (female), or neuter (neither feminine nor masculine); for example: when the man (masculine) was hit by the ball, it (neuter) knocked him (masculine) down and his wife (feminine) helped him (masculine) get back on his (masculine) feet (neuter).

People and animals consist of female genders and male genders while things, objects, etc. are classified as neuter genders."

"These days, the use of the term gender is seen more often instead of using the word sex; such as, when identifying whether a person or an animal is a male or a female."

"When filling out forms, a person is usually asked for his or her age, income, and gender; so, now it seems that gender is being used to indicate a person's sex and sex is being used to indicate sexual activities."

1. The investigation of one’s forefathers and family history: Joanna used a great deal of her time in researching the genealogy of her ancestors, trying to find as many historical documents as possible regarding the relationships of her early relatives. © ALL rights are reserved.

Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.