sex
8 definitions found
sex - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Gender \Gen"der\ (j[e^]n"d[~e]r), n. [OF. genre, gendre (with
excrescent d.), F.genre, fr. L. genus, generis, birth,
descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere,
to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin. See Kin,
and cf. Generate, Genre, Gentle, Genus.]
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1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs." --Shak.
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2. Sex, male or female.
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Note: The use of the term gender to refer to the sex of an
animal, especially a person, was once common, then fell
into disuse as the term became used primarily for the
distinction of grammatical declension forms in
inflected words. In the late 1900's, the term again
became used to refer to the sex of people, as a
euphemism for the term sex, especially in discussions
of laws and policies on equal treatment of sexes.
Objections by prescriptivists that the term should be
used only in a grammatical context ignored the earlier
uses.
[PJC]
3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to
sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed
quality associated with sex.
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Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to
words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies
to living objects. --R. Morris.
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Note: Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when
the form is varied according to the gender of the words
to which they refer.
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Sex- \Sex-\ [L. sex six. See Six.]
A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial.
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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.
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2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the
distinction of male and female.
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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.
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The sex, the female sex; women, in general.
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sex - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
sex
n 1: activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had
sex in the back seat" [syn: sexual activity, sexual practice
, sex, sex activity]
2: either of the two categories (male or female) into which most
organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"
3: 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" [syn: sex, sexual urge]
4: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of
their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of
the foetus" [syn: sex, gender, sexuality]
v 1: stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male
audience" [syn: arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
]
2: tell the sex (of young chickens)
sex - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
SEX
/seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 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 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.
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
Intel 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). 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 UK'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.
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(1998-03-03)
sex - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
SEX
/seks/
[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.
sex - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :
SEX. The physical difference between male and female in animals.
2. In the human species the male is called man, (q.v.) and the female,
woman. (q.v.) Some human beings whose sexual organs are somewhat imperfect,
have acquired the name of hermaphrodite. (q.v.)
3. In the civil state the sex creates a difference among individuals.
Women cannot generally be elected or appointed to offices or service in
public capacities. In this our law agrees with that of other nations. The
civil law excluded women from all offices civil or public: Faemintae ab
omnibus officiis civilibus vel publicis remotae sunt. Dig. 50, 17, 2. The
principal reason of this exclusion is to encourage that modesty which is
natural to the female sex, and which renders them unqualified to mix and
contend with men; the pretended weakness of the sex is not probably the true
reason. Poth. Des Personnes, tit. 5; Wood's Inst. 12; Civ. Code of Louis.
art. 24; 1 Beck's Med. Juris. 94. Vide Gender; Male; Man; Women; Worthiest
of blood.
sex - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "sex":
Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, act of love, admiration,
adoration, adultery, affection, agape, amorous, aphrodisia,
ardency, ardor, ass, attachment, balling, bodily love,
brotherly love, caritas, carnal, carnal knowledge, charity, climax,
cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce,
congress, conjugal love, connection, copula, copulation, coupling,
desire, devotion, diddling, erogenic, erogenous, erotic,
erotogenic, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, fleshly, fondness,
fornication, free love, free-lovism, gamic, heart, hero worship,
heterosexual, idolatry, idolism, idolization, intercourse,
intimacy, lasciviousness, libidinal, libido, like, liking, love,
lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act,
married love, mating, meat, nuptial, onanism, orgasm, oversexed,
ovum, pareunia, passion, physical love, popular regard, popularity,
potent, procreation, procreative, regard, relations, screwing,
sensual, sentiment, sex act, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexual climax,
sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual love,
sexual relations, sexual union, sexualize, sexy, shine,
sleeping with, sperm, spiritual love, straight, tender feeling,
tender passion, truelove, undersexed, uxoriousness, venereal,
venery, voluptuous, weakness, worship, yearning
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