Look up: sex

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   Sex
   The anatomical differences which separate men from women. Sociologists often contrast sex with gender. Sex refers to the physical characteristics of the body; gender concerns socially learned forms of behaviour. Sex and gender divisions are not the same. A transvestite, for example, is someone who is physically a man but sometimes assumes the gender of a woman.
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   sex
   [n] - either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided 2. [n] - all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses 3. [n] - the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles 4. [v] - tell the sex (of young chickens)
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   Sex
   the biological distinction between females and males
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   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 g...
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   sex
   The biological characteristics which distinguish human beings as female or male Category: Man and society • the sum of the characteristics that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive function Category: Medicine
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   Sex
   Sex noun [ Latin sexus : confer French 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. 2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female. 3. (Bo ...
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   sex
   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. ... 2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female. ... 3. <botany> The capability in p ...
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   sex
   sexual urge noun 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`
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   gender noun the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; `she didn`t want to know the sex of the foetus`
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    noun either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; `the war between the sexes`
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    sex
    excite 1 turn on verb stimulate sexually; `This movie usually arouses the male audience`
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    Sex
    `Sex` refers to the male and female duality of biology and reproduction. Unlike organisms that only have the ability to reproduce asexually, many species have the ability to produce offspring through meiosis and fertilization. Often, individuals of the two sexes attract one another and communicate their readiness to procreate through biological changes, or, in social species, through courtship behaviours. An organism's sex is defined by its biol...
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    (seks) the fundamental distinction, found in most species of animals and plants, based on the type of gametes produced by the individual; also the category to which the individual fits on the basis of that criterion. Called also gender. See also gender identity. to determine which of these categories an organism...
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    Sex
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female. • (n.) The capabilit...
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    Sex
    (from the article `West, Mae`) In 1926 West began to write, produce, and star in her own plays on Broadway. In the first of these, Sex (1926), her performance as a prostitute ...
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    sex
    the sum of features by which members of species can be divided into two groups—male and female—that complement each other reproductively.[2 related articles]
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    sex
    sex, term used to refer both to the two groups distinguished as males and females, and to the anatomical and physiological characteristics associated with maleness and femaleness. Sex relates to the type of reproduction in which specialized reproductive cells (gametes) form and, when united by ferti...
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