FEMININE vs DISTAFF: NOUN
- A word or form belonging to the feminine gender.
- The feminine gender.
- A woman.
- Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.
- A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
- The female principle
- A female; the female sex.
- The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
- Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.
- Descent on the mother's side.
- Figuratively, a woman, or the female sex.
- A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (see Etymology), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.
- The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun
- Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only
- The morrow of the Epiphany, that is, January 7, because working at the distaff was then resumed, after the Christmas festival; -- called also Rock Day, a distaff being called a rock.
- In the earliest method of spinning, the staff, usually a cleft stick about 3 feet long, on which was wound a quantity of wool, cotton, or flax to be spun.
- Women considered as a group.
- Work and concerns traditionally considered important to women.
- An attachment for a spinning wheel that serves this purpose.
- A staff that holds on its cleft end the unspun flax, wool, or tow from which thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
- The sphere of work by women
- The staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
FEMININE vs DISTAFF: ADJECTIVE
- Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females.
- Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.
- See Female rhyme, under Female, a.
- Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
- Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
- Relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to females or to things grammatically classified as female.
- Effeminate; womanish.
- Characterized by or possessing qualities traditionally attributed to women, such as demureness.
- Of or relating to women or girls.
- Befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
- (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
- Of grammatical gender
- Associated with women and not with men
- Having the qualities associated with a woman or the female gender; suitable to, or characteristic of, a woman; nurturing; not masculine or aggressive.
- Grammatical gender distinction in languages that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.
- Relating to or being the female line or maternal branch of a family.
- Referring to the maternal side of a family
- Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of women
- Of or relating to women and girls; female.
FEMININE vs DISTAFF: ADVERB
- Having the qualities of a woman.
- Of or pertaining to woman.
- N/A
FEMININE vs DISTAFF: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Female (of grammatical gender)
- Synonyms Female, Feminine, Effeminate, Womanish, Womanly, Ladylike; soft, tender, delicate. Female applies to women and their apparel, to the corresponding sex in animals, and by figure to some inanimate things: feminine, to women and their attributes, to the second grammatical gender; effeminate, only to men. Female applies to that which distinctively belongs to woman; feminine, commonly, to the softer, more delicate or graceful qualities of woman, the qualities being always natural and commendable: as, feminine grace; effeminate, to qualities which, though they might be proper and becoming in a woman, are unmanly and weak in a man; womanish, to that which is weak in woman, or weakly like women in men: as, womanish tears; womanly, to that which is nobly becoming in a woman; ladylike, to that which is refined and well-bred in woman.
- In grammar, of the gender or classification under which are included words which apply to females only: said of words or terminations.
- Pertaining to a woman or to women, or to the (human) female sex; having the distinguishing characters or nature of that sex; having qualities especially characteristic of woman.
- Effeminate; destitute of manly qualities.
- N/A
FEMININE vs DISTAFF: RELATED WORDS
- Feminist, Girlish, Ladylike, Girly, Powder puff, Maidenlike, Womanlike, Fair, Unstressed, Unaccented, Distaff, Female, Maidenly, Matronly, Womanly
- Victress, Upsetter, Trotters, Fillies, Claimer, Furlong, Formful, Latent heat, Standardbred, Beldame, Thoroughbred, Distaff side, Frizette, Feminine, Female
FEMININE vs DISTAFF: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Feminist, Girlish, Ladylike, Girly, Womanlike, Powder puff, Maidenlike, Fair, Unstressed, Unaccented, Distaff, Female, Maidenly, Matronly, Womanly
- Trotting, Victress, Upsetter, Trotters, Fillies, Claimer, Formful, Latent heat, Standardbred, Beldame, Thoroughbred, Distaff side, Frizette, Feminine, Female
FEMININE vs DISTAFF: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Belser that Judaism accepts a feminine side to God, and that the word Goddess speaks of a primal feminine reality.
- Feminine gender: a noun is categorized as feminine when it refers to a female character of a species.
- When the two nouns are feminine, the adjective is put in the feminine plural.
- Justine becomes an ambivalent, bisexual figure where masculine and feminine attributes are joined, feminine pliability opposed to masculine resourcefulness.
- And another lesson was really tapping into my feminine energy because my core essence is feminine.
- Most people are not strictly feminine or masculine but possess both masculine and feminine characteristics.
- This balancing of masculine and feminine interests, traits, and activities is called the feminine apologetic.
- Steaming, Womb Health, and Feminine Wellness, and increase the energy of our Divine Feminine.
- Feminine Supplement: How it Works: Provides probiotic lactobacillus that balances yeast and bacteria to maintain feminine health.
- Feminine Stud: A lesbian who presents a masculine gender display, yet, performs traditionally feminine mannerisms and maintains a traditionally feminine passive demeanor.
- Biggest shock was Azeri losing the Humana Distaff to Mayo on the Side.
- Last year she was third in the Distaff after setting the pace.
- Replace winding: Drawing prolate distaff and thread spindle if you want to change an big clew.
- In this portrait she has a distaff before her and is spinning from it by hand.
- DISTAFF STAFFERS increase at the Reagan White House, once criticized for having no senior women officials.
- Isabella from the distaff, and would soon send her back to it again.
- Henry Tudor despite his claim based on the distaff Lancastrian side.
- To dream of a distaff, denotes frugality, with pleasant surroundings.
- Eve with her distaff as the originator of clothing.
- She is represented by a spindle or distaff.
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