sex

[sex]

Sex is shorthand for sexual intercourse and other forms of sexual stimulation. We also call males and females the two sexes.

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The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.

Noun
activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"

Noun
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn''t want to know the sex of the foetus"

Noun
all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses; "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film contained no sex or violence"

Noun
either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"

Verb
tell the sex (of young chickens)

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Verb
stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

n.
The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.

n.
One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.

n.
The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.

n.
One of the groups founded on this distinction.

Sex

Sex, n. [L. sexus: cf. F. sexe.] 1. The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female. 2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female. 3. (Bot.) (a) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes. (b) One of the groups founded on this distinction. The sex, the female sex; women, in general.

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.

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Usage Examples

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.