I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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
alpha male
dominant male
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The dominant male gorilla is the largest in the group.
male chauvinism
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male chauvinism
male chauvinist pig (= an insulting name for a male chauvinist )
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a male chauvinist pig
male chauvinist pig (= an insulting name for a male chauvinist )
(male) chauvinist pig (= a man who thinks women are not equal to men )
male chauvinist
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He’s a bit of a male chauvinist .
male chauvinist
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I’m afraid Bill’s a bit of a male chauvinist.
male menopause
male preserve
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Banking used to be a male preserve .
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
chauvinism
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He got a little tired of her complaints that male chauvinism had stopped her getting a book out.
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We doubt if any of the men on translation committees or who did their own translations are conscious of any male chauvinism .
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But to ascribe this to male chauvinism wouldn't be accurate either.
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Marriage experts have slammed Laura's ideas as offensive and pandering to male chauvinism .
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Hence also the exaggerated tribalism, the bullheaded racism of an Alf Garnett, the dogged male chauvinism of an Andy Capp.
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He's had a lifelong fight with feminists who accuse him of extreme male chauvinism and damaging their dignity.
chauvinist
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Who said his age excused him from being a male chauvinist ?
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The producer was Av Westin, who is a staunch male chauvinist , but there was absolutely no hesitation, no objection.
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In a nation of committed male chauvinists , all this excitement may stimulate a desire to pinch a schoolgirl's bottom.
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No wonder male chauvinists want to reclaim the sole right to do so.
child
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I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour.
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They early give their male children guns and ceremoniously teach them the rules of their use.
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The conflict aroused in these male children can induce an emotional paralysis in later life.
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Two-thirds of the ability of male children on aerobic capacity tests; almost 90 percent in female children.
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Concentrated semen will make a male child , fluid semen a female.
colleague
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Diplomatically, she pointed to where her male colleagues were standing.
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Most women can recognize an inappropriate pass by a male colleague .
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There was a brief scuffle at the entrance between photographers and a male colleague with the Marquess.
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Few were in the top echelons, and they regularly fell behind their male colleagues in promotions and salary increases.
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Leslie was hurt after racing to back up male colleagues trying to catch the suspect in Wavertree, Liverpool.
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Earlier this month a male colleague , also on the holiday, was dismissed.
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If two male colleagues had gone on holiday, she said, neither would have been sacked.
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Our engineers described how their male colleagues had problems finding topics of social conversation outside work.
counterpart
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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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Fifty-eight percent say they are no worse than their male counterparts .
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Besides being paid less per hour the majority of women employees in both sectors work fewer hours than their male counterparts .
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Women who undergo cosmetic surgery still far outnumber their male counterparts .
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Furthermore, they found that female clerical workers were much less likely to achieve promotion than their male counterparts .
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Female managers generally have less difficulty and embarrassment with this topic than do their male counterparts .
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But far be it for us to shed crocodile tears over the bruised egos of our male counterparts .
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And life for their male counterparts may be no less bleak.
friend
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She said she asked for a lift for herself and a male friend as a joke.
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I have the honor of being his only male friend to be included.
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She was at pains to tell me - several times - that her male friends were divided into two groups.
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She's the type of girl who doesn't have any close girlfriends, just male friends .
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He went to the cinema at least once a week, in the company of Susan Einzig or his young male friends .
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A number of my male friends are very interested in my neckties.
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He had two friends there, two male friends, who had a little boat they could take fishing.
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This was a book which began life as chapters to be read aloud to like-minded male friends .
heir
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The succession law favouring the male heir was changed in May 1990 to give equal succession rights to both sexes.
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That is how strongly she felt about her responsibility to produce a male heir to the Kang clan.
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However, if a man dies without direct male heirs , his cattle will be inherited by a daughter.
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Late in life, King Robert had still fathered no male heir .
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Unless this occurred, the land was divided equally amongst all the male heirs , reducing the size of Catholic plots.
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This was most likely to happen if a lordship was left without an adult male heir .
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Madresfield Court at Malvern, Worcs, had stayed empty because the previous tenant had no male heir .
line
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The family was one of the most prolific in the parish, but in the end the male line withered.
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A second method of proclaiming cadency down the male line of the whole blood is to display single marks of difference.
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The direct male line of the family died out in 1367.
member
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During the lesson the male member of staff was continually engaged in a physical interaction with a number of pupils.
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In addition, feminists received more support from clergymen than from male members of any other profession.
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At the beginning of 1940 there were 190 male members , yet four years later only 93!
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Most days the male members of the dass ate lunch together.
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Another pleasure, which Karelius shared with most male members of the audience, was the performance of her sister's understudy.
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The male member of the duo turned around.
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The only remaining male member of our Church choir was a Vic-Wells ballet fan.
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But then various men on the race committee and some male members of the National Aeronautic Association began to have second thoughts.
partner
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There was no effect when only the male partner was a smoker.
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In London in 1994 9,800 women were attacked by their male partners , compared to 887 men.
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Males, in particular, are quickly inhibited from approaching a female if she is already interacting with a male partner .
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One of the key differences between the two relates to the impact of a male partner in the household.
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Females benefit from having several male partners because they all help to rear her young.
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Women's caring responsibilities frequently include the welfare of male partners as well as children.
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Some women choose to bring up children alone without a male partner .
patient
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Interestingly, both female as well as male patients exhibited a hypocholesterolaemia, a finding not previously reported among other population groups.
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Another male patient at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, arrested after last night's incident, was today being interviewed by police.
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One male patient had two separate oesophageal carcinomas.
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There were 2101 male patients and 3 female patients in the group.
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There they go now, in the autumn dusk, the male patients in their light pyjamas, while the band plays.
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Methods Studies were undertaken in 176 male patients who were having investigational colonoscopy and who were found to have a normal colon.
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The other male patient was very different from the man who had hurt his head.
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Dieulafoy's lesion is a disease of mainly middle aged and elderly male patients .
population
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Here in Deptford half the male population don't have what you'd call a regular job.
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Half the male population is economically active, compared to one-quarter of the female population.
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Over 85% of the male population are or were manual workers.
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You have to be both token woman and superwoman to come anywhere near a shortlist that disenfranchises most of the male population .
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In mid-Cornwall, for example, over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years.
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That does not surprise me, given that 20 percent. of the male population in Newham are currently unemployed.
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One in five of the male population is unemployed.
power
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In other words, they take the side of women against forms of male power .
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The combination of sheer male power and boyish devilment was too seductive.
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No relevant issues were raised, no acknowledgment that rape is about male power , or even that it is wrong.
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It raised questions about the connections between male power within the family and within the industrial firm.
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In understanding male power it is important to understand that masculine oligarchies exclude not only all women but most men.
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A serious feminist critique of masculinity and male power was long overdue.
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The male power in procreation is the active power; women's contribution is passive.
preserve
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Because work is still considered a male role, leisure, similarly, is thought to be a male preserve .
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Real life was then a male preserve but Helen had no interest in the usual option of the women's pages.
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Every head would turn if a woman walked into one of those male preserves .
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In cotton country women weavers made coarser cloths, quality pieces remaining a male preserve .
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Despite being so ubiquitous, until now they've been solely a male preserve .
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Not only does she execute embroideries, but designs them too - thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve .
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The suburban commuter station was emphatically a male preserve at certain times of day.
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Working technical equipment seemed to be a male preserve .
sexuality
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Max breathed out powerful male sexuality in every movement.
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A dread of black male sexuality remains.
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It was the language of purity which mobilized many women to develop a trenchant critique of male sexuality .
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And it would give us a new understanding of the statues with phallic necks or other representations of male sexuality .
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He was standing close, holding her breathless with his gaze, every inch of him exuding male sexuality .
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Untamed, they can indulge their short-term and promiscuous male sexuality and many do.
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It needed to focus on the reform of male sexuality and the improvement of working-class morals.
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She is in constant pursuit of ways in which to accentuate male sexuality and to provide men with comfortable clothes.
student
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Only 10 percent of male students showed such reactions to a story about a student called John.
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Nisbett and Cohen also cite experiments they conducted using male students at the University of Michigan.
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On one occasion in the early 1880s she was persuaded to address male students at Edinburgh University medical school.
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Since most of the male students were in their mid to late twenties, spouse hunting for them was a major preoccupation.
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But male students are not exempt.
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The male students were randomly assigned to one of four groups.
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The gunman had entered a classroom and ordered male students to leave.
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In the months prior to the incident, white male students had become more openly resentful of black men dating white women.
violence
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None the less to equate female and male violence is misleading.
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The popular notion that words do not hurt you is by no means endorsed among women survivors of male violence .
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The causes of male violence intersect in complex ways with inequalities of class, ethnicity, race, and age.
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Female nurturing is presented as the solution to male violence - as though women haven't been doing that for centuries.
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Other essays examine subjects such as white supremacy, Black homophobia feminist politicization and male violence .
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Summary 1 Official statistics understate the amount of male violence against women both in public places and in the home.
voice
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A gruff male voice bade them enter.
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There is now a male voice , firm and authoritative, speaking on top of the music.
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She paused, hearing the low murmur of male voices , from the doorway just ahead of her.
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With a table and a loud male voice he had rid 114 of its claim to local fame.
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She sang solo against the humming of the male voices behind her and against the organ counterpoint.
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He had a good tenor voice and he belonged to a male voice glee party.
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And then an impatient male voice had shouted from the cockpit above.
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The Hilliard Ensemble, using six male voices , gives immaculate performances that are rhythmically alive and expressive.
worker
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The evidence does not appear to confirm this, especially in the case of full-time male workers .
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She also said she was locked in a walk-in freezer by two male workers .
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Finally, the decrease has been greatest among full-time male workers .
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It is assumed that all permanently disabled male workers who survived until 1966 are included in the above table.
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By 1985, full-time male workers were working an average of 40.3 hours per week.
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No evidence was found of fertility problems in male workers .
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By 1989 the average working week for full-time male workers had increased to 44.1 hours.
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Inasmuch as almost all on-the-job injuries up to that time involved male workers , I concentrate on the males.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
don't come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me
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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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male pursuits such as football and golf
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male sexuality
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A rooster is a male chicken.
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a survey of male and female attitudes
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All the selected texts are written by male philosophers.
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More women are entering traditionally male jobs like engineering.
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Most of the science teachers are male .
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Salaries have increased for both male and female graduates.
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the male -only setting of the St Andrews Sporting Club
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The Health Service needs more male nurses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aboard they had some six hundred gallons of gasoline, just a partial load, and a male stand-in for her.
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All too often, the male response has been flight.
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Female nurturing is presented as the solution to male violence - as though women haven't been doing that for centuries.
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Here we are, you see, women of modest but independent means, living together, but without male attachments.
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How, then, do women engineers resolve the contradictions of their presence in a male world?
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Is it the same reason old male television anchors go to the networks, and old female television anchors go to pasture?
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One such male priest conducted a ritual of purification of a church after a woman priest had celebrated Mass there.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adult
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The adult males move in larger home ranges that are superimposed spatially upon those of the females.
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Being an adult male , he was at the end of the line for inoculations.
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The adult males are dark, the females and young are sandy-brown.
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This year's quota is 25,400, composed of 23,400 pups and 2,000 adult males .
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Another key set of wired bonds is that between adult males .
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Between 1641 and 1651 more than one in five adult males bore arms perhaps one in twenty lost their lives.
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In 1877 he observed the adult male and female forms.
black
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Both movies look at the pressures on young black urban males .
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Blacks , particularly black males , are underrepresented in medical schools across the country.
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But not every black male is a wife-beater.
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They were sparked by the police shooting of an unarmed young black male , Timothy Thomas.
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More whites joined in, and black female students called more black males to even the numbers.
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Consider: Homicide is the leading cause of death for black males between the ages of 15 and 34.
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For black males in this age group the increase was even greater.
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The participants, mostly black males , were criticized for following Farrakhan, who has been accused of anti-Semitism.
dominant
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Harem A typical mammalian grouping consists of one dominant male and a harem of females.
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It is not my experience that dominant males have ever had too much difficulty accepting their social superiority.
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Her father is Andy, the only adult dominant male in the Belfast group.
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Several dominant males could impregnate all the women and perpetuate the tribe.
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This arrangement requires a certain amount of restraint and co-operation on the part of the dominant males , but it clearly has compensatory advantages.
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There are some species, such as hyenas and vervet monkeys, in which females are dominant to males .
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In other groups, the dominant male gets most of the matings, and the other males are allowed an occasional copulation.
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If the pack has become too big and unmanageable, the dominant male must spend all his time trying to control it.
human
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Its distinction between human males and human females was almost complete.
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Similarly - and we declare this honestly and proudly - we believe human males have a genetic thirst to flirt.
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Some owners notice that their cats love human females and hate or fear human males .
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Yet they still can not define any specific influence of testosterone on the behaviour of the human male .
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This ghostly figure appears as a scarecrow-thin, stooped human male in late middle age, which mutters and cackles to himself.
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This is equivalent to a human male becoming a father in his late seventies.
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All it knows is that when a human male came close to it, it was restrained and then something painful happened.
large
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The female played the major role in this, and often bullied the larger male into attending to his duties.
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I knew it was a female, because in owls they are larger than males .
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Against this the presence of the large male and his spectacular charging displays is an ample response.
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The shoal consists of lots of females and a single large male .
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The largest of the males began to court her.
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In experiments larger males are much better at dislodging smaller males from females than viceversa.
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Detailed life-history studies of this highly dimorphic animal reveal that the reproductive success of large males is much higher than small males.
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Yet large males are in the minority among their peers, and are much smaller than the females.
old
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The newcomer trades his forbearance of the existing young against the collaboration of the old male in retaining the harem.
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Cigar was voted the outstanding older male unanimously.
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Patients in this group are likely to be older males .
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Found murdered, unidentified eighteen-year old male in empty lot on Jackson Avenue, South Bronx.
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Then he has to cope with the alarming vocal displays of the old males , designed to put him off his game.
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Each eight-year-\#old male comes to the plate with dreams of violent magic in his bat.
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If this happens it seems the old male is doomed.
other
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Males of this species hold harems of three to six females, and forcibly prevent other males from mating with them.
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At the same time they try to make sure that no other males get the opportunity to mate with their own female.
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He never gives the other males a chance.
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In other groups, the dominant male gets most of the matings, and the other males are allowed an occasional copulation.
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This group range is in effect a male-group territory and is defended as such against groups of other males.
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In other species males have evolved special weapons with which they fight over females.
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A harem stallion defends his mares against the attentions of other males .
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One example may be the male red deer which competes vigorously with other males for opportunities to mate.
small
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The best strategy is to have small males who stick like glue on the rare occasions when one makes the grade.
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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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In experiments larger males are much better at dislodging smaller males from females than viceversa.
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Detailed life-history studies of this highly dimorphic animal reveal that the reproductive success of large males is much higher than small males.
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The females, their huge shells glinting in the moonlight, drag smaller males behind them.
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As a consequence they typically occur in very small groups and males therefore mate with fewer females each year.
white
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The robber's described as a white male , in his early to mid twenties and of medium build.
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But in the early sixties, Loyola was pretty mucha school for white males from the middle and upper middle class.
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Kim described her assailant as a white male in his 20s or 30s who reminded her of Timothy McVeigh.
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A No. 5 is a white male like Jim Davis, the victim.
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The suspect was described as a white male of average height and weight between 25 to 32 years old.
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In proportion to their numbers young ghetto males commit seven times more homicides and 30 percent more suicides than young white males.
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We have eight task forces, one of white males .
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The mobilization of large numbers of white males for the war effort in-creased apprehension among the population at home.
young
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Some are sufficiently realistic that young males try to chat up the female personas they represent.
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In proportion to their numbers young ghetto males commit seven times more homicides and 30 percent more suicides than young white males.
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The behaviour of young males and females in Seyfarth's study already foreshadowed the adult outcome.
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They were sparked by the police shooting of an unarmed young black male , Timothy Thomas.
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Both movies look at the pressures on young black urban males .
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Holly was astride the supine form of one of the younger males , it was hard to tell which.
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Mr. Baker A large proportion of car crime is carried out by young males between the ages of 12 and 22.
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I asked my husband of the punishment for the young males who had participated, but he had no answer.
■ NOUN
alpha
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Females often try to escape from the alpha male's vigilance, and will go up to the beta male and solicit copulation.
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You see it in nonhuman primates, where the new alpha male comes into the troop and mates.
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They turned themselves into cartoon alpha males .
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They were also friendlier towards female infants and those not fathered by the current alpha male .
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Overall, females were friendliest and least aggressive towards alpha males , regardless of their treatment of infants.
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Since females reap substantial protective benefits from associating with alpha males , this is perhaps not surprising.
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They might find themselves having to do some serious work, with concomitant loss of status among the other alpha males .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
don't come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me
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.
red-blooded male/Englishman/American etc
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How could any red-blooded male ignore the message the actress was sending so blatantly? she wondered despairingly.
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Wish I'd met her ten, twenty years ago when I could still pass as a red-blooded male.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Males under 25 have a higher accident rate.
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Haemophilia is a condition found only in males.
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The male uses its light to find receptive female fireflies.
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The film is a brilliant analysis of the typical American male .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At all three the female was on the nest, and the male perched nearby in the trees.
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Competition among males for mates is stronger in polygamous than in monogamous species.
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In other words, some males are extraordinarily successful while others may never mate.
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One of the key things for the male is to time his departure from the first female correctly.
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The male has two long tail streamers, and females prefer the males with the longest streamers.
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The obstinate refusal of many males to support gun control is not chiefly a product of conditioning by the weapons industry.
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When officers approached the car, both males fled.