I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a female perspective
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Carson's lyrics are definitely written from the human experience, but from a female perspective.
a female/male companion
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Do you know who his female companion was?
a male/female employee
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The majority of the female employees are under 30.
a male/female occupation (= a job that traditionally is done by men or women )
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traditional female occupations such as nursing
female condom
female form
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The female form is a thing of beauty.
male/female friends
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Most of my male friends are married now.
male/female sexuality
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a study of male sexuality
the female/male body
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his drawings of the female body
the male/female line
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This particular gene is passed down through the male line.
youth/male/female unemployment (= the number of young people/men/women unemployed )
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Youth unemployment there has reached 50 percent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
body
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En route they collected data on how the female body reacts to extreme conditions.
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The story suggests a male terror of both the female body and the realities of death.
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The final section will discuss her representation of the female body , especially in relation to contemporary ideals of beauty.
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Early art, especially the wall art and the figurines, show the spiritual power of the female body .
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I go through every part of the female body in turn.
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For tens of thousands of years the creative power of the divine female body dominated spiritual awareness.
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Two competing ideal female body types developed: the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.
character
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In Amalgamemnon the central female character takes an overtly subversive approach.
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That Storni felt identified with her female characters , even in the farces, is obvious.
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The female characters , too, are made of sterner stuff than the quick-witted schemers of Figaro.
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I cut down its technological ambitions in order to introduce a central female character .
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As regards the long-term goals of the male and female characters in this story, there is little evidence available.
employee
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Once he ordered one of the directors to leave a female employee alone.
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As luck would have it, two of the female employees in the department were pregnant.
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Sheila Redmond is also looking at the possibility of arranging talks on the menopause for female employees .
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Ultimately, they were assured of a cheap and exploitable labor force through the constant turnover of young, female employees .
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Male and female employees were represented by separate union locals until 1977.
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That interpretation was widely viewed as favoring business over minority and female employees attempting to charge job discrimination.
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A female employee is known to associate after work with a sexually active crowd of young people.
experience
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The bull, then, becomes an example of the unity of male and female experience within physical reality.
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Birthtales looks forward to the day when these female experiences are considered to be a valid subjects for inclusion in galleries.
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Later life is predominantly a female experience .
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Despite the fact that she sings about uniquely female experience , she denies having feminist leanings.
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The male experience is seen as a universal experience, while the female experience is put in a different pigeonhole.
form
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The further from the natural a female form , the more feminine it is.
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Pech-Merle also contains some of the relatively rare engravings of human female forms .
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It is not known for certain if the male and female form a pair bond.
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Here, too, we find subtle combinations of male imagery with essentially female forms .
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A much more acceptable female form .
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But the family fortune rested on the female form .
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In 1877 he observed the adult male and female forms .
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The female form is more beautiful.
friend
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I didn't call any female friends , for the idea was to take Jo out.
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She began to see possibilities as her female friends began asking for some important advice.
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Sitting nearby in seats costing £1,021 return were a female friend and two detectives.
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Summary Despite the problems that women students felt, they did not envy their female friends studying other courses.
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Whatever the reason, it's certainly all my female friends that stand gazing into the black puddles with me.
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Many women have a long term close female friend -- but they don't sleep with them!
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He wished one of his female friends were here.
labour
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There is some evidence of modest influences, among many others, of the female labour market on family building patterns.
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The increasing division of labour in potting pioneered by Wedgwood also used female labour for patterning and decorating.
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Part-time female labour is particularly important.
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These preliminary results suggest the desirability of looking beyond the female labour market for an adequate characterization of economic influences on fertility.
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This analysis shows how sensitive these measures are to varying assumptions about unemployment and female labour for Participation.
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The guild also contributed regularly to investigations undertaken by the Labour Department of the Board of Trade into female labour.
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Until they are, female labour at half rates will have a dangerous effect on the printing trade in general.
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In pastoral areas a high demand for female labour persisted, and in the dairying regions even increased.
lead
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Sam, 26, played the female lead in a version of the movie hit Grease.
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The trio of female leads are all outstanding.
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So far no progress with the female lead .
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She was the female lead and therefore a rival.
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Glenda Jackson had already been approached for the female lead .
line
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Egg colour itself is inherited down the female line , so that females stay with the bird by whom they were fostered.
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X genes are not the only genes inherited through the female line .
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Incidentally, this means that we can use mitochondria to trace our ancestry, strictly down the female line .
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Aberration, if it occurred, was not recorded, and the female line took second place.
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She told me all about you and Gittel, and how you called down the curse on Gittel's female line .
member
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At eighteen, she's the youngest female member in the history of the Magic Circle.
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One person familiar with their work said there have been some sharp differences of thinking between the male and female members .
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In a recent survey, the IoD found that 43% of its female members were childless.
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Two years ago female members of Congress pushed to relocate the statue to the Rotunda.
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The examination was conducted in the presence of a female nurse and a female member of the Royal Military Police.
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Our four female members were the only women in the audience.
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Are inheritance practices basically inegalitarian, discriminating in particular against female members of rural households?
nude
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Elizabeth Jerichau-Baumann's undated painting Odalisque subscribes to the stereotypes of the female nude propagated by her male counterparts.
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The beautiful female nudes in this show, rendered large and golden, are at once sensual, heroic and strong.
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The female nude has been conceived as an expression of fundamental principles of order and design.
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Chapter 4 considers why the female nude played so prominent a part in the making of modern art practice.
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In this chapter we examine how the female nude became a crucial element in the formation of art designated modern.
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The primacy of the female nude as a motif of modern art, from Courbet to Kruger, is examined.
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Everyone else in the class is working on a reclining female nude .
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Representing the female nude After thirty or so years of scholarship, feminism now has a relatively well-established position within art history.
patient
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In one female patient , the body ulcer was later identified as a gastric lymphoma and surgical resection was done.
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Kidney stones can also form as a result of an infection, but this is more likely in female patients .
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For a very large female patient , or one who has extremely poor balance, a wraparound skirt may be more practical.
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Subjects - 6528 male and female patients providing 54355 years of follow up.
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Incident and fatal cancers were not significantly increased in male or female patients taking atenolol.
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We describe a female patient who developed both these conditions, the treatment of which was unsatisfactory until a thymectomy was performed.
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Around one in five of the nurses and 38% of the doctors felt that female patients discriminated against nurses who were male.
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There were 2101 male patients and 3 female patients in the group.
role
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With no major female roles in the year's remaining releases insiders believe the only question is who else gets nominated.
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I flushed with teenage resentment of the female role I was supposed to assume.
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They form monogamous pairs and, within the pair, take turns to play the male and female roles .
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I think women see her as a real female role model.
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In contrast it is difficult to think of a deviant female role which is not perceived as damaging to its protagonist.
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They were the ultimate female role models: highly unusual, gifted, respected women.
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When they are present they are present for the most part performing female roles as defined by that society.
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Minuses: A quietly emotive, unshowy performance in a year of attention-getting female roles .
sexuality
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But, in addition, they implied that O'Keeffe's work was a revelation of female sexuality .
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Indeed, this intelligent and controlled female sexuality is what makes human communities possible.
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The physical expression of female sexuality is her monthly period and its triumph lies in her giving birth.
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They seem fortunate to some because they are left to pursue young women without being caught in the coils of female sexuality .
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What is strikingly absent in nineteenth-century thought is any concept of female sexuality which is independent of men's.
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Rather than a brief performance, female sexuality is a long, unfolding process.
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The heroine, Maryska, is the personification of female sexuality .
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In the 1860s medical interventions into the contagious diseases debate polarized earlier representations of female sexuality .
student
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Many of the female students had been academic failures at school and had negative attitudes to teachers.
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He was arrested five other times from 1991-93 on charges such as exposing himself to a female student and urinating in public.
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It may appear that male and female students are polarized on the basis of biology.
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And what of the female students whose consent is genuine?
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A 19 year old female student from Bath University was charged by Essex police with unlawful imprisonment and causing actual bodily harm.
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A break-down in the number of male and female students shows that the number of female graduates is still inadequate.
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She was the female student of her year.
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He said that he had felt humiliated in front of his suite mates and in front of female students .
voice
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Nassim was not available, a female voice told me.
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The too familiar husky female voice startled her into full wakefulness.
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The solo quartet was not always well balanced, but individually the two female voices were particularly striking.
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A female voice answered approximately a minute later.
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They heard footsteps, then a female voice .
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Then I felt a pressure on my arm and a soft female voice asked me for a light.
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He dialled and after a few rings a female voice answered.
worker
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The second important trend has been the slight narrowing of the differentials between male and female workers in full-time occupation.
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Several of the female workers who have sued Mitsubishi say the department had been unresponsive and ineffective.
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Clearly, designing for fit young men in the armed forces has different constraints from designing for middle-aged female workers in manufacturing.
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For female workers the corresponding proportions were 76.5 percent and 87.5 percent respectively.
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The industrial censuses of 1946 and 1965 showed a decline in female workers from 22 percent to 18 percent.
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The apparent reproductive suicide of a female worker is, as a result, a matter of biological self-interest.
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The female workers can not lay eggs.
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The equivalent figures for female workers were £68 and £83 respectively.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
male/female bonding
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Do a little female bonding - go shopping or out for a big lunch with a friend.
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A whole series of male clubs sprang up which emphasised the elements of male bonding .
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Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends.
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First, the male - female bonding is weakened owing to the low frequency of male interactions with most of his female companions.
peculiarly British/female/middle-class etc
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Cellulite is a peculiarly female problem in which the hormone oestrogen plays a part.
the black/female/Russian etc experience
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It must recognize the validity of the black experience in a white-dominated world.
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The male experience is seen as a universal experience, while the female experience is put in a different pigeonhole.
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The powers that be were not interested in continuing that serious focus on the black experience .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Female students tend to get better grades than male students.
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Emma is the only female lawyer that the firm has ever employed.
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In Tokyo, the number of female taxi drivers is up 75% since 1972.
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Many women reject the traditional female roles of wife and mother.
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Notice the distinguishing marks of the female spider.
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Patience and kindness are often seen as female qualities.
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the female reproductive system
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A string of female rulers, from Boudicca to Margaret Thatcher, gives the lie to that idea.
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Among female singers, Jessye Norman has a highly enthusiastic following, in part because opera appearances are rare.
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Five female officers remain on the 78-member force; two of them, including Ferguson, are on leave.
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He used five female volunteers who knew the experiment was taking place.
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I remember watching a whole flock of female phalaropes badgering a poor male so intensely he almost drowned.
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What about the differences between the male and female brain?
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adult
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For instance, an adult female will purr while suckling her kittens and when she courts a male.
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The adult females were domesticated, such as it was, and they tried to return to their cages.
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Capturing the animals entails shooting the adult females , whose skulls are sold to tourists.
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Adult males came in at 10 hours a week, adult females and college students at 9 hours, teen-agers at 7.
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Overall 15 percent of adult females and 12 percent of males defined themselves as carers.
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In this box there was adult female and four youngsters.
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Immature females interacted with adult females primarily when the latter were lactating; immature males did so when they were in oestrus.
dominant
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Males are usually dominant to females .
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Nevertheless, the dominant female still ends up with most eggs.
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The advantages of female access to dominant females is less clear.
human
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Its distinction between human males and human females was almost complete.
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The early human female could not have gone this way alone.
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He takes it for granted that in human generation the female is the passive principle, the male the active.
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The type of character that almost convinces you that some human females secrete pheromones.
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Most people were aware that Gharr was there, but the news seemed to be mainly of interest to human females .
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Some owners notice that their cats love human females and hate or fear human males.
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For a human female this would be like having a baby in her mid-sixties.
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The human females were taking trays of food out of the wall.
large
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The commonest and most widespread of the larger gulls, very variable in size; males average larger than females .
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In general, however, the larger females are about 20 feet, and even they are rare.
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These deer tend to form large herds, and during the breeding season males defend large harems of females .
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When he dies, the largest female simply changes gender.
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As a result, males in these species are usually noticeably larger than the females .
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The brilliant epaulettes of the male red-winged blackbird may be a help in attracting a large number of females to his territory.
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Young males at this size already show a lot of colour and are noticeably larger than females .
old
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By the time they produce their own young they are solitaries with no older females around to teach them by example.
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An eighteen-year-\#old female first-year student claimed she was raped during a fraternity party while at least five other men watched.
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The recent study found that 10 percent of the two year old females were breeding.
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Chimpanzees find old females just as attractive as young ones as long as both are in estrus.
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What pressures might there be on older females , and males, to shoplift?
single
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Eight or nine men are convicted of crimes for every single female .
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Some are ruled by single females , in a society even more rigid than that of a beehive.
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Four single black females dissect the failings of the modern male in a riotously rude fashion.
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They can smell the bombykol released by a single female , at a distance of over a mile.
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In monogamy, a single male pairs with a single female .
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Fruit flies can be manipulated to put foreign X chromosomes-one from each of two species-in a single female .
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Others are less successful and may get only a single female or even remain unmated.
small
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In the Nematoda, the sexes are separate and the males are generally smaller than the females which lay eggs or larvae.
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And in her species, males are small , females large.
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In experiments larger males are much better at dislodging smaller males from females than viceversa.
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Bigger females were not much more likely to have more babies than small females.
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A small proportion of females have a rusty-red plumage, distinct from the normal grey colour.
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Conversely, a small male does worse than a small female because he fails to win a mate at all.
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Matters are made even more hazardous for the male because he is nearly always smaller than the female .
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Yet large males are in the minority among their peers, and are much smaller than the females .
white
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A brown and white female appeared with a crane fly in her beak.
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The Union reflected the workforce, as the whole organization is white female dominated and infused with a liberal social conscience.
young
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The young females tend to fly off and look for mates elsewhere.
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It occurs predominantly in younger females who are anxious and depressed, although older people also may be affected.
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A young female wants to dance and enjoy herself, I know.
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Very rarely is the message sent that exciting young females could be scientists or technologists.
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And very good at it he was, too, although he was a little over-enthusiastic, especially where young females were concerned.
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Their progeny mate inside the fig before the young females disperse to new figs.
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This prompts the question as to whether young females lay down less fat in species showing reversed size dimorphism.
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The behaviour of young males and females in Seyfarth's study already foreshadowed the adult outcome.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adult males came in at 10 hours a week, adult females and college students at 9 hours, teen-agers at 7.
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Each species chooses to exploit the senses that its females are best at detecting.
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One of the females put the last tray on a trolley and wheeled it past Masklin.
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The female of the species performs her mating dance.
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The co-operation is understandable in evolutionary terms as the males and females in a single-female syconium are brothers and sisters.
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The male then chases the female away.
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The trained females who have calves at foot keep their young with them as they work.
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Was this the treatment Roman meted out to any female who presumed a little too much, grew a little too possessive?