What's the difference between behaviour and effeminate?

Behaviour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (3) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
  • (4) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
  • (5) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
  • (6) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (7) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
  • (8) Socio-economic improvement or behavioural changes appear necessary for the control of trachoma in endemic areas.
  • (9) Isolates showed a decrease in the intensity of apomorphine-induced stereotyped behaviours but no change in stereotypy induced by AMPH.
  • (10) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (11) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
  • (12) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
  • (13) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
  • (14) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
  • (15) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
  • (16) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
  • (17) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
  • (18) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (19) There was no evidence of a response to the specific behavioural suggestion during the postoperative interview.
  • (20) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .

Effeminate


Definition:

  • (a.) Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
  • (a.) Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
  • (v. t.) To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
  • (v. i.) To grow womanish or weak.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
  • (2) Growing up on the Norris Green council estate in Liverpool, Duggan, who is now 41, was bullied at home and at school – "I was probably just a bit too sensitive and effeminate for my own good" – and he found solace in the Smiths, particularly in their first couple of albums, when he was 14 or 15.
  • (3) Were Brian Blessed to complain angrily and defensively enough that he "didn't come across as effeminate", he would gradually start to seem girly.
  • (4) One result of the sharp dichotomization of male and female gender roles is the widely held belief that effeminate males generally prefer to play the female role rather than the male.
  • (5) When the talkies first came in, leading men with effeminate voices lost their careers.
  • (6) In addition, we have found significantly increased plasma follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and LH levels associated with decreased plasma free testosterone levels in homosexual men, but only in effeminate homosexuals.
  • (7) The majority mixed with effeminate boys, admired a senior person in school and about a third had a physical relationship with this person.
  • (8) Effeminacy and homosexuality are also linked by the belief that as a result of this role preference effeminate males are sexually interested only in masculine males with whom they play the passive sex role.
  • (9) And boys don't want to hang around you coz you're effeminate."
  • (10) Fellow members of the Lower Third could not help noticing David’s flamboyant, even effeminate performing style.
  • (11) It must have been the worst fight ever: two effeminate theatrical blobs trying not to get hurt.
  • (12) Eddy Bellegueule (Louis’s real name, which means “beautiful face” in French) is an effeminate child; as a “faggot”, “queer”, “poof”, as he is regularly reminded, he is even worse than an “Arab”, “Jew” or “black”.
  • (13) Speaking earlier at the conference, Gambaccini said Moyles "encouraged bullying" and caused "human suffering" after a show in which he changed the lyrics to two Will Young songs and sang them in an effeminate, high-pitched voice.
  • (14) There were eunuchs (castrated men) and mukhannathun (effeminate men) to whom the rules of gender segregation did not apply: they were allowed access to the women’s quarters, presumably because there was thought to be no likelihood of sexual misbehaviour.
  • (15) From Kenneth Williams to Tom Allen, there has always been a market for effeminate stylings allied to a waspish, holier-than-thou gentility.
  • (16) In all fairness, no one can speak of transsexual or transvestite children as has been done in the past, but only of feminine or effeminate boys and tomboy girls.
  • (17) In the course of a long-term study of 55 boys with early effeminate (cross-gender) behavior an effort was also made to ascertain the presence of sexual deviance in their parents, siblings, uncles, and aunts.
  • (18) A relatively advanced age and secondary trans-sexualism (transvestites and effeminate homosexuals) are risk factors for poor prognosis in those requesting sex reassignment.
  • (19) It’s a film which playfully toyed with the perceived homoeroticism of the male-warrior culture: depicting the Spartans as brave, warlike and noble, but the Persians as in thrall to an effeminate and contemptible king: Xerxes.
  • (20) Hence that word "squeaky", suggestive of the most paltry and effeminate of colonic disorders, a million miles from Sir Alex, with his cast-iron constitution, his five portions of fruit a day, his regular and decisive daily movements.