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Noun sex has 4 senses
- sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity - activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"
--1 is a kind of bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
--1 has particulars: | | bondage; outercourse; safe sex; conception; sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge; pleasure; sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life; carnal abuse; coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union; reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life; foreplay, arousal, stimulation; perversion, sexual perversion; autoeroticism, autoerotism; promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around; lechery; homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, gayness; bisexuality; heterosexuality, heterosexualism, straightness; bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty |
- sex - either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"
--2 is a kind of class, category, family
- sex, sexual urge - 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"
--3 is a kind of feeling
- sex, gender, sexuality - the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
--4 is a kind of physiological property
--4 has particulars:
Verb sex has 2 senses
- arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up - stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
--1 is one way to stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- sex - tell the sex (of young chickens)
--2 is one way to distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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