Sex

Noun

 * 1)  Either of two main divisions (either female or male) into which many organisms can be placed, according to reproductive function or organs.
 * What sex is that hamster?
 * The abnormality is found in both sexes.
 * 1)  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.
 * The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, sex, and other factors.
 * The researchers divided the subjects by sex.
 * 1)  Sexual intercourse; the act of sexual intercourse.
 * All you ever think about is sex.
 * We had sex in the back seat.
 * 1)  Genitalia; a penis or vagina.
 * 2)  Women; womankind.
 * 3) * 1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela:
 * ‘With all my heart,’ replied my master; ‘I have so much honour for all the sex, that I would not have the meanest person of it stand, while I sit, had I been to have made the custom.’
 * 1) * 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, chapter 1, page 52:
 * 2) * unless it was with his sister-in-law, my father's wife and my mother,—my uncle Toby scarce exchanged three words with the sex in as many years
 * 3) * 1807, John Hoole, trans. Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, XXVII ll. 1003-4:
 * But how can each the boasted treasure own, / When through the sex no two chaste wives are known?
 * 1) * 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dying Detective, paragraph 2, page 180:
 * She [Mrs. Hudson] was fond of him, too, for he had a remarkable gentleness and courtesy in his dealings with women. He disliked and distrusted the sex, but he was always a chivalrous opponent.
 * She [Mrs. Hudson] was fond of him, too, for he had a remarkable gentleness and courtesy in his dealings with women. He disliked and distrusted the sex, but he was always a chivalrous opponent.

Synonyms

 * gender
 * coitus, sexual intercourse; see WikiSaurus:sexual intercourse

Derived terms

 * anal sex
 * battle of the sexes
 * better than sex
 * cybersex
 * desex
 * fair sex
 * group sex
 * have sex
 * nonpenetrative sex
 * oral sex
 * phone sex
 * safe sex
 * sex act
 * sex aid
 * sex appeal
 * sex bomb
 * sex change


 * sex discrimination
 * sex drive
 * sex education
 * sexer
 * sexercise
 * sex kitten
 * sex machine
 * sex object
 * sex offender
 * sex on legs
 * sex on a stick
 * sex organ
 * sexploration
 * sex ratio
 * sex selection
 * sex-selective


 * sex scene
 * sex shop
 * sex symbol
 * sex tape
 * sex tourism
 * sex toy
 * sex up
 * sexpert
 * sexploitation
 * sexpot
 * sexy
 * unisex
 * unsex
 * vaginal sex
 * whimsical sex

Related terms

 * sexual
 * sexuality


 * sexualize
 * sexualization

Descendants

 * German:

Verb

 * 1)  To determine the biological sex of an animal.
 * It is not easy to sex lizards.
 * 1)  To have sex with.
 * The passionate lovers sexed each other every night.
 * OK, so I'm sexin'  her, right, and all I can think of is this other girl.

Adjectives for Sex
immured; gentle; fragile; inconstant; variable; bewitching; sterner; respective; dominant; grasping; enigmatical; weaker; dependent; deadlier.

Verbs for Sex
arouse—; characterize—; cloak—; conceal —; debauch—; destroy—; determine—; distinguish—; equalize—s; eulogize—; honor —; pervert—; purify—; respect—; screen —; segregate—s; shroud—; unite—s; — boasts; —claims; —emphasizes; —mystifies.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
1382, from sexe: <  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).

Noun

 * Arabic: تسافد, جماع, مجامعة, سيكس
 * Armenian:, սեռական հարաբերություն
 * Belarusian: сэкс
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: sexe
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Min Nan:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:, kønsliv, seksualliv, seksuel omgang, samleje,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, sexe, cul
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: (sex with prostitute),
 * Gujarati: મૈથુન, સેક્સ
 * Hebrew: יחסי מין (literally: sexual relations), , סקס
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, セックス


 * Korean: 성교, 성행위, 성관계,
 * Kurdish: seks, guhnelî, perîn, cotbûn, têkiliyên zayendî, gan
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malayalam: ലൈംഗികബന്ധം (laimgika bandham), സംഭോഗം (sambhogam), മൈഥുനം (maithhunam)
 * Marathi: कामजीवन
 * Norwegian:, samleie,  samlega
 * Old English:, ,
 * Persian: (ham-khaabegy)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: pagtalik, kantot (vulgar)
 * Tamil: பாலுறவு, உடலுறவ
 * Telugu: సంభోగము (saMbhOgamu), మైధునము (maidhunamu), రతి (rathi)
 * Thai:, เซ็กส์
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: любощі (ljúbošči) ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: (jins)
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: пол (pol)
 * Catalan: sexe
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, (literally: gender)
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: sexo
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Lao: ລິງ, ເພດ


 * Latin:
 * Malayalam: ലിംഗം (limgam)
 * Manx:
 * Norwegian: kjønn
 * Novial: sexu
 * Persian: (jensi-yat)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kasarian
 * Telugu: లింగము (liMgamu)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: стать (stat’)
 * Vietnamese: giới tính


 * French: le


 * : reizh (1,2,3)
 * : seks (2), jenis kelamin (1)

Verb

 * Danish: kønsbestemme
 * Dutch: geslacht bepalen
 * Finnish: määrittää sukupuoli
 * German: das Geschlecht bestimmen, sexen


 * Lithuanian: mylėtis
 * Spanish: sexar
 * Swedish: könsbestämma


 * Danish:, have samleje med
 * Dutch:, de liefde bedrijven
 * Finnish:, harrastaa seksiä
 * Greek: συνουσιάζομαι
 * Ancient:
 * Hebrew: קיים יחסים ,


 * Italian: fare sesso
 * Japanese: セックスする (sekkusu-suru)
 * Russian: заниматься сексом с (zanimát’s’a séksom s)
 * Swedish:, ha samlag med

Noun

 * 1)  sexual intercourse

Etymology
From sex:.

Derived terms

 * sexet

Related terms

 * seksualitet
 * seksuel

Number

 * 1) six; the cardinal number after fimm: and before sjö:.

Etymology
From sex:.

Related terms

 * sjötti (ordinal)

Derived terms

 * klukkan sex

Cardinal number

 * 1) six

Numeral

 * 1)  six; 6
 * haec super inposita est caeli fulgentis imago, signaque sex foribus dextris totidemque sinistris
 * "Above these was placed an image of the shining sky, and six signs [of the zodiac] on the doorways to the right and the same number on the left."
 * Ibi praesidium ponit et in altera parte fluminis Q.Titurium Sabinum legatum cum sex cohortibus relinquit;
 * "Over that river was a bridge: there he places a guard; and on the other side of the river he leaves Quintus Titurius Sabinus, his legate, with six cohorts."
 * sex diebus colligite in die autem septimo sabbatum est Domino idcirco non invenietur
 * "Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none."
 * sex diebus colligite in die autem septimo sabbatum est Domino idcirco non invenietur
 * "Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none."
 * "Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none."

Alternative forms

 * Symbol: VI

Etymology
From. Cognates include Sanskrit षष्:, Old Armenian վեց:, Ancient Greek ἕξ:, and Old English siex: (English six:).

Descendants

 * Asturian:
 * Catalan:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Italian:


 * Neapolitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Spanish:

Cardinal number

 * 1) six

Etymology
From, whence also Old English siex: (English six:), Old Frisian sex:, Old Saxon seks:, Middle Dutch sesse: (Dutch zes:), Old High German sehs: (German sechs:), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃:. Ultimately from, cognate with Sanskrit षष्:, Old Armenian վեց:, Ancient Greek ἕξ:.

Descendants

 * Danish: seks
 * Faroese: seks
 * Icelandic: sex


 * Norwegian: seks
 * Swedish: sex

Noun

 * 1) gender, sex

Derived terms

 * sexul slab
 * sexul tare

Noun

 * 1) sex, sexual relations

Etymology
sexus:

Noun

 * 1) sex (intercourse, sexual activity)

Cardinal number

 * 1)  six

Derived terms

 * sexa
 * sjätte
 * sjättedel

Noun

 * 1) sex (intercourse, sexual activity)

Etymology 1
From sex:.

Etymology 2
From sex:.