English noun: sex |
1. | sex (act) activities associated with sexual intercourse |
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| Samples | They had sex in the back seat.
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| Synonyms | sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice |
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| Broader (hypernym) | activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | arousal, autoeroticism, autoerotism, bestiality, bisexuality, bondage, breeding, carnal abuse, carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, conception, congress, conjugation, copulation, coupling, facts of life, foreplay, gayness, heterosexualism, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, intercourse, lechery, love, love life, lovemaking, making love, mating, outercourse, pairing, perversion, pleasure, procreation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, queerness, relation, reproduction, safe sex, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual love, sexual perversion, sexual relation, sexual union, sleeping around, stimulation, straightness, union, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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| Attribute | heterosexual, homosexual |
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2. | sex (group) either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided |
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| Samples | The war between the sexes.
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| Broader (hypernym) | category, class, family |
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3. | sex (feeling) all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses |
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| Samples | He wanted a better sex life. The film contained no sex or violence.
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| Synonyms | sexual urge |
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| Broader (hypernym) | feeling |
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4. | sex (attribute) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
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| Samples | She didn't want to know the sex of the foetus.
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| Synonyms | gender, sexuality |
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| Broader (hypernym) | physiological property |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | androgyny, bisexuality, femaleness, feminineness, hermaphroditism, maleness, masculinity |
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| Attribute | androgynous, asexual, female, male, nonsexual, sexual |
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English verb: sex |
1. | sex (emotion) stimulate sexually |
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| Samples | This movie usually arouses the male audience.
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| Synonyms | arouse, excite, turn on, wind up |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody |
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| Broader (hypernym) | excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | tempt |
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2. | sex (cognition) tell the sex (of young chickens) |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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