sex
IPA: sˈɛks
noun
- (countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
- (countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
- (countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.
- (uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
- (obsolete or literary, uncountable, with "the") Women; the human female gender and those who belong to it.
- (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
- (countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of sect. [An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.]
verb
- (zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of (an animal).
- (chiefly US, colloquial, transitive) To have sex with.
- (chiefly US, colloquial, intransitive) To have sex.
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Examples of "sex" in Sentences
- Lani say: I don't love sex@ carmically sex is quite cool.
- Because if sex was involuntary then it was not ’sex’ but rape.
- In fact, whenever she was forced to say the word sex or anything pertaining to it, she put it in verbal quotes and wrinkled her nose.
- The venereal diseases are passed on from one sex to the other in a continuous chain, but the chain can be broken at any time _by either sex_.
- I do wish he'd get over the constant-sex thing, because, number one, sex is private and he doesn't need to share, and, number two, not everyone engages in sex as it's messy, and, as I've been told, may involve nudity.
- The sooner we stop using the expression "sex crimes", the sooner will we be able to address the stark fact that these are acts of violence which hijack the sexual organs for the purpose of the humiliation and violation.
- It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual instinct that could give that stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race the name of _the fair sex_; for the entire beauty of the sex is based on this instinct.
- If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ˜sex™ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
- February 18, 2009 at 12:26 pm 1. Internet Pornography 2. Illegal downloading of music 3. Ignorance 4. Myself 5. Depression (well mostly, still working on it, seems to take a different form these days) 6. The Devil (still working on him too lol) 7. Loneliness 8. Pre-marital sex 9. Internet ’sex’ and ‘relationships’ (don’t ask)
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