Sex

  • 81sex — Australian Slang large cloth bag(s) used as containers for such things as potatoes, cement, etc.: sex of manure , corn sex , etc …

    English dialects glossary

  • 82sex — [14] Sex comes via Old French sexe from Latin sexus. This has traditionally been explained as a relative of Latin secāre ‘cut’ (source of English section, sector, etc), as if it denoted etymologically that ‘section’ of the population which is… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 83sex — noun 1) they talked about sex Syn: sexual intercourse, lovemaking, making love, the sex act, sexual relations, mating, copulation 2) adults of both sexes Syn: gender …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 84sex — [[t]sɛks[/t]] n. 1) either the female or male division of a species, esp. as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions 2) the sum of the structural and functional differences by which the female and male are distinguished 3) the …

    From formal English to slang

  • 85sex —   No Hawaiian term. See lascivious, lecherous, randy, and sayings, hua4, ko okā1, pīoe oe, wa uwa u.    ♦ Masculine sex, keka kāne, Feminine sex, keka wahine …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 86Sex — der Sex (Grundstufe) sexuelle Handlung Synonym: Geschlechtsverkehr Beispiel: Sie haben Sex miteinander …

    Extremes Deutsch

  • 87sex — [14] Sex comes via Old French sexe from Latin sexus. This has traditionally been explained as a relative of Latin secāre ‘cut’ (source of English section, sector, etc), as if it denoted etymologically that ‘section’ of the population which is… …

    Word origins

  • 88sex — n. [L. sexus, sex] The physical characteristics by which an animal is classed as male or female …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 89sex- — a combining form, occurring in loanwords from Latin, meaning six (sexagenary); on this model used in the formation of compound words: sexpartite. Also, sexi . [ < L, comb. form of sex SIX] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 90sex — The difficulties the western tradition has had with sexual desire are spectacularly voiced by Kant : ‘Taken by itself [sexual love] is a degradation of human nature; for as soon as a person becomes an object of appetite for another, all motives&#8230; …

    Philosophy dictionary