What does Sex mean?
Definitions for Sex
sɛkssex
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Sex.
Princeton's WordNet
sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activitynoun
activities associated with sexual intercourse
"they had sex in the back seat"
sexnoun
either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided
"the war between the sexes"
sex, sexual urgenoun
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"
sex, gender, sexualityverb
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
"she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind upverb
stimulate sexually
"This movie usually arouses the male audience"
sexverb
tell the sex (of young chickens)
Wiktionary
sexnoun
Either of two main divisions (either female or male) into which many organisms can be placed, according to reproductive function or organs.
sexnoun
The distinguishing property, quality, or assemblage of properties by which organisms are classified as female or male on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions; the set of properties by which male is distinguished from female.
sexnoun
Sexual intercourse; the act of sexual intercourse.
sexnoun
Genitalia; a penis or vagina.
sexnoun
Women; womankind.
sexverb
To determine the biological sex of an animal.
It is not easy to sex lizards.
sexverb
To have sex with.
Etymology: 1382, from sexe, from sexus. Thought to be connected with seco, secare by the concept of division, or 'half' of the race. Akin to section. Meaning "sexual intercourse" first attested 1929 (in writings of D.H. Lawrence).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sexnoun
Etymology: sexe, French; sexus, Latin.
These two great sexes animate the world. John Milton.
Under his forming hands a creature grew,
Manlike, but different sex. John Milton.Unhappy sex! whose beauty is your snare;
Expos’d to trials; made too frail to bear. Dryd.Shame is hard to be overcome; but if the sex once get the better of it, it gives them afterwards no more trouble. Samuel Garth.
Wikipedia
Sex
Sex is a trait that determines an individual's reproductive function, male or female, in animals and plants that propagate their species through sexual reproduction. The type of gametes produced by an organism define its sex. Commonly in plants and animals, male organisms produce smaller gametes (spermatozoa, sperm) while female organisms produce larger gametes (ova, often called egg cells). Organisms that produce both types of gametes are called hermaphrodites. During sexual reproduction, male and female gametes fuse to form zygotes that develop into offspring that inherit a selection of the traits of each parent. Males and females of a species may be similar (sexual monomorphism), or have physical differences (sexual dimorphism). The differences reflect the different reproductive pressures the sexes experience. For instance, mate choice and sexual selection can accelerate the evolution of physical differences between the sexes. The terms male and female typically do not apply in sexually undifferentiated species in which the individuals are isomorphic (look the same) and the gametes are isogamous (indistinguishable in size and shape), such as the green alga Ulva lactuca. If there are instead functional differences between gametes, such as in fungi, they may be referred to as mating types.Sex is genetically determined in most mammals by the XY sex-determination system, where male mammals carry an X and a Y chromosome (XY), whereas female mammals carry two X chromosomes (XX). Other chromosomal sex-determination systems in animals include the ZW system in birds, and the X0 system in insects. Various environmental systems include temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles and crustaceans.
ChatGPT
sex
Sex is a biological concept that refers to the physical attributes that distinguish individuals as male or female. It is determined by genetic and anatomical characteristics, including reproductive organs, chromosomes, and secondary sexual characteristics.
Webster Dictionary
Sexnoun
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
Sexnoun
one of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female
Sexnoun
the capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes
Sexnoun
one of the groups founded on this distinction
Etymology: [L. sexus: cf. F. sexe.]
Wikidata
Sex
Sex is a coffee table book written by Madonna, with photographs taken by Steven Meisel Studio and film frames shot by Fabien Baron. The book was edited by Glenn O'Brien and was released on October 21, 1992, by Warner Books, Maverick and Callaway Books. Approached with an idea for a book on erotic photographs, Madonna expanded on the idea and conceived the book and its content. Shot in early 1992 in New York City and Miami, the locations ranged from hotels and burlesque theaters, to the streets of Miami. The photographs were even stolen before publishing, but were quickly recovered. The book had a range of influences – from punk rock to earlier fashion iconoclasts like Guy Bourdin and his surrealism, and Helmut Newton, in its stylized, sado-masochistic look. Sex has photographs that feature adult content and softcore pornographic as well as simulations of sexual acts, including sadomasochism and analingus. Madonna wrote the book as a character named "Mistress Dita", inspired by 1930s film actress Dita Parlo. It also includes cameos by actress Isabella Rossellini, rappers Big Daddy Kane and Vanilla Ice, model Naomi Campbell, gay porn star Joey Stefano, actor Udo Kier, socialite Tatiana von Fürstenberg, and nightclub owner Ingrid Casares.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sex
seks, n. the distinction between male and female: the characteristics by which an animal or plant is male or female, gender: the female sex, women generally, usually with the definite article.—adj. Sex′less, having no sex.—n. Sex′lessness.—adj. Sex′ūal, pertaining to sex: distinguished or founded on the sex: relating to the distinct organs of the sexes.—v.t. Sex′ūalise, to distinguish as sexed.—ns. Sex′ūalist, one who classifies plants according to the differences of the sexes; Sexūal′ity, state or quality of being sexual.—adv. Sex′ūally.—Sexual affinity, the instinctive attraction of one sex for another; Sexual organs, the organs of generation; Sexual selection, that province of natural selection in which sex comes into play. [Fr. sexe—L. sexus—secāre, to cut.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
SEX
[Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus. See also pubic directory. 2. The rather Freudian mnemonic often used for Sign EXtend, a machine instruction found in the PDP-11 and many other architectures. The RCA 1802 chip used in the early Elf and SuperElf personal computers had a ‘SEt X register’ SEX instruction, but this seems to have had little folkloric impact. The Data General instruction set also had SEX.DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the SEX mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this happened, either. The author of The Intel 8086 Primer, who was one of the original designers of the 8086, noted that there was originally a SEX instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the instruction was renamed CBW and CWD (depending on what was being extended). Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straight SEX but has logical-or and logical-and instructions ORL and ANL.The Motorola 6809, used in the Radio Shack Color Computer and in U.K.'s ‘Dragon 32’ personal computer, actually had an official SEX instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did not. British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Sex
The totality of characteristics of reproductive structure, functions, PHENOTYPE, and GENOTYPE, differentiating the MALE from the FEMALE organism.
Editors Contribution
sex
Relating to a male or female.
She was a different sex to her brother she knew it at a young age.
Submitted by MaryC on January 28, 2020
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Entomology
Sex
as a number, six: the physical difference between male and female: usually indicated by the sign of Mars (?) for male, and Venus (?) for female; workers or undeveloped females have the sign of Venus without the cross line, or a combination of the two others.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Sex' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1245
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Sex' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1406
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Sex' in Nouns Frequency: #516
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Sex in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Sex in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Sex in a Sentence
I’ve never liked this idea of ‘Don’t give him everything.’ Like, you’ve given someone all of yourself by having sex with them. What’s valuable to me is giving you my love and my intimacy, i want to tell [guys], ‘Don’t have sex at me — have sex with me.’ I want them to understand that it’s so much better when we’re connected.
Unless there is a written contract limiting the circumstances (in which) an employee can be fired, an employer may fire someone without cause, for any or no reason, as long as it's not an impermissible reason, such as discussing terms and conditions of employment, discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, in some states sexual orientation, etc..
Philadelphia Councilwoman Maria Quiones-Sanchez:
Hundreds of children have been traumatized by encampments of homeless persons on [ drug ] binges openly doing drugs and having sex, and it’s unacceptable.
It’s not clear how the people were exposed to monkeypox, but early data suggest that gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men make up a high number of cases. However, anyone who has been in close contact with someone who has monkeypox is at risk.
These offenses occurred while our client was being groomed to join Kelly’s sex cult.
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Translations for Sex
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- geslagAfrikaans
- سيكس, مجامعة, جماع, جنس, تسافدArabic
- cins, seksAzerbaijani
- плоць, сэкс, пол, секс, палавы́я зно́сіныBelarusian
- съвокупле́ние, полово́ сноше́ние, секс, полBulgarian
- লিঙ্গ, সেক্সBengali
- sexe, sexarCatalan, Valencian
- sex, pohlavní styk, pohlaví, styk, souložCzech
- samleje, sex, seksuel omgang, kneppe, erotik, kønsliv, bolle, kønsbestemme, seksualliv, kønDanish
- Sex, Geschlecht, Geschlechtsverkehr, Sex haben, sexenGerman
- σεξ, έρωτας, συνουσιάζομαι, φύλο, συνουσίαGreek
- seksoEsperanto
- relación, sexo, género, sexar, sexualSpanish
- suguEstonian
- همخوابگی, جنسیت, سکس, جنس, ارتباط جنسیPersian
- rakastella, yhdyntä, seksi, sukupuoliFinnish
- rapport sexuel, sexe, sexer, culFrench
- gnéasIrish
- gnèScottish Gaelic
- સેક્સ, મૈથુનGujarati
- keintysManx
- מין, מגדר, יחסי מין, קיים יחסים, זיין, סקסHebrew
- लिंग, सेक्स, मैथुनHindi
- közösülés, szex, nemHungarian
- սեռ, սեռական հարաբերություն, սեքսArmenian
- sexoInterlingua
- jenis kelamin, jenis, seksIndonesian
- dinàkọIgbo
- kynIcelandic
- fare sesso, sessoItalian
- מיןHebrew
- セックスする, 性別, セックス, 性交Japanese
- სქესი, სექსიGeorgian
- жыныс, сексKazakh
- ជាតិលិង្គ, ការរួមភេទ, លិង្គKhmer
- ಲೈಂಗಿಕತೆKannada
- 성행위, 성, 성교, 성별, 섹스, 성관계Korean
- zayend, guhnelî, gan, perîn, cinsiyet, têkiliyên zayendî, cins, seks, cotbûnKurdish
- секс, жынысKyrgyz
- sexus, sexLatin
- ລິງ, ເພດLao
- lytis, seksas, mylėtisLithuanian
- sekss, dzimumsLatvian
- сексуа́лен однос, полов однос, пол, сексMacedonian
- ലിംഗം, മൈഥുനം, സംഭോഗം, ലൈംഗികബന്ധംMalayalam
- хүйсMongolian
- कामजीवनMarathi
- jantinaMalay
- sessMaltese
- လိင်Burmese
- samleie, sexNorwegian
- geslachtsgemeenschap, vrijen, sekse, seks, geslachtDutch
- samlege, sex, samleieNorwegian Nynorsk
- kjønn, sexNorwegian
- seks, seksować, płećPolish
- sexo, transaPortuguese
- relații sexuale, sexRomanian
- совокупле́ние, полово́й акт, полово́е сноше́ние, пол, сексRussian
- сексуални однос, spolni odnos, спол, пол, сполни однос, pol, spol, секс, seksualni odnos, seksSerbo-Croatian
- sex, súlož, pohlavný styk, pohlavieSlovak
- spolni odnos, séks, spolSlovene
- gjiniAlbanian
- kön, samlag, knulla, sex, könsbestämma, kSwedish
- ngonoSwahili
- பாலுறவு, உடலுறவ, செக்ஸ்Tamil
- రతి, మైధునము, లింగము, సంభోగముTelugu
- ҷинсият, ҷинс, шаҳват, сексTajik
- ลิงค์, เพศ, เซ็กส์Thai
- pol, jyns, seksTurkmen
- pagtalik, kasarian, kantotTagalog
- cins, cinsiyet, seks, cinsel ilişkiTurkish
- секс, стате́ві зно́сини, лю́бощі, статьUkrainian
- جنس, سیکس, جنسیUrdu
- jins, seks, shahvoniy, jinsiy aloqaUzbek
- giao cấu, giới tínhVietnamese
- געשלעכטYiddish
- 性爱Chinese
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