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sex
Overview of noun sex
The noun sex has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (14) sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity -- (activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat")
2. (7) sex -- (either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes")
3. 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")
4. 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")
Overview of verb sex
The verb sex has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up -- (stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience")
2. sex -- (tell the sex (of young chickens))
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sex
4 senses of sex
Sense 1
sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
sex
=> class, category, family
=> collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
sex, sexual urge
=> feeling
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
sex, gender, sexuality
=> physiological property
=> bodily property
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun sex
2 of 4 senses of sex
Sense 1
sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> 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, queerness, gayness
=> bisexuality
=> heterosexuality, heterosexualism, straightness
=> bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty
Sense 4
sex, gender, sexuality
=> maleness, masculinity
=> androgyny, hermaphroditism, bisexuality
=> femaleness, feminineness
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sex
4 senses of sex
Sense 1
sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
Sense 2
sex
=> class, category, family
Sense 3
sex, sexual urge
=> feeling
Sense 4
sex, gender, sexuality
=> physiological property
Antonyms of noun sex
Member Holonyms of noun sex
Substance Holonyms of noun sex
Part Holonyms of noun sex
Member Meronyms of noun sex
Substance Meronyms of noun sex
Part Meronyms of noun sex
Meronyms of noun sex
Holonyms of noun sex
Attributes of noun sex
2 of 4 senses of sex
Sense 1
sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> heterosexual (vs. homosexual)(vs. bisexual)
=> homosexual (vs. bisexual)(vs. heterosexual)
Sense 4
sex, gender, sexuality
=> male (vs. female)(vs. androgynous)
=> female (vs. androgynous)(vs. male)
=> androgynous (vs. male)(vs. female)
=> sexual (vs. asexual)
=> asexual (vs. sexual), nonsexual
Derived Forms of noun sex
4 senses of sex
Sense 1
sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
RELATED TO>(adj) sexual#2
=> sexual
RELATED TO>(verb) sex#1
=> arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
Sense 2
sex
RELATED TO>(verb) sex#2
=> sex
Sense 3
sex, sexual urge
RELATED TO>(adj) sexy#2
=> aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, sexy
RELATED TO>(adj) sexy#1
=> sexy
RELATED TO>(verb) sex#1
=> arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
Sense 4
sex, gender, sexuality
RELATED TO>(verb) sex#2
=> sex
Domain of noun sex
Domain Terms of noun sex
Familiarity of noun sex
sex used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun sex
4 senses of sex
Sense 1
sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> control
=> breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation
=> respiration
=> breath
=> consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> insemination
=> sleeping
=> reaction, response
=> crying, weeping, tears
=> ablactation
=> anastalsis
=> discharge, emission, expelling
=> expectoration
=> festering, suppuration, maturation
=> healing
=> hypostasis
=> lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing, watering
=> lactation
=> opsonization, opsonisation
=> overactivity
=> peristalsis, vermiculation
=> perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis
=> phagocytosis
=> pinocytosis
=> placentation
=> psilosis
=> tanning
=> transpiration
Sense 2
sex
> class, category, family
=> Larvacea, class Larvacea
=> Diplopoda, class Diplopoda, Myriapoda, class Myriapoda
=> Malacostraca, subclass Malacostraca
=> grammatical category, syntactic category
=> substitution class, paradigm
=> brass family
=> violin family
=> woodwind family
=> stamp
=> sex
=> declension
=> conjugation
=> denomination
=> histocompatibility complex
Sense 3
sex, sexual urge
> feeling
=> affect
=> emotion
=> thing
=> glow
=> faintness
=> soul, soulfulness
=> passion, passionateness
=> sentiment
=> complex
=> ambivalence, ambivalency
=> apathy
=> desire
=> sex, sexual urge
=> pleasure, pleasance
=> pain, painfulness
=> pang, stab, twinge
=> liking
=> dislike
=> gratitude
=> ingratitude, ungratefulness
=> unconcern
=> shame
=> pride, pridefulness
=> humility, humbleness
=> astonishment, amazement
=> devastation
=> expectation
=> levity
=> gravity, solemnity
=> sensitivity, sensitiveness
=> agitation
=> calmness
=> fearlessness, bravery
=> happiness
=> sadness, unhappiness
=> hope
=> despair
=> affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia
=> temper, mood, humor, humour
=> sympathy, fellow feeling
=> enthusiasm
Sense 4
sex, gender, sexuality
> physiological property
=> animateness, aliveness, liveness
=> inanimateness, lifelessness
=> sex, gender, sexuality
=> asexuality, sexlessness
Meronyms of noun sex
4 senses of sex
Sense 2
sex
=> class, category, family
HAS MEMBER: superphylum
Holonyms of noun sex
Grep of noun sex
anal sex
cybersex
east sussex
essex
extramarital sex
fair sex
intersex
oral sex
primary sex character
primary sex characteristic
safe sex
same-sex marriage
secondary sex character
secondary sex characteristic
sex
sex-change operation
sex-linked disorder
sex act
sex activity
sex appeal
sex bomb
sex cell
sex change
sex character
sex characteristic
sex chromatin
sex chromosome
sex crime
sex drive
sex gland
sex hormone
sex kitten
sex linkage
sex manual
sex object
sex offender
sex offense
sex organ
sex segregation
sexadecimal notation
sexadecimal number system
sexagenarian
sexcapade
sexiness
sexism
sexist
sexlessness
sexploitation
sexpot
sext
sextant
sextet
sextette
sextillion
sexton
sextuplet
sexual abstention
sexual abuse
sexual activity
sexual arousal
sexual assault
sexual characteristic
sexual climax
sexual congress
sexual conquest
sexual desire
sexual discrimination
sexual harassment
sexual immorality
sexual intercourse
sexual inversion
sexual love
sexual morality
sexual perversion
sexual pleasure
sexual practice
sexual relation
sexual relationship
sexual reproduction
sexual union
sexual urge
sexuality
sexually transmitted disease
sussex
university of sussex
wessex
west sussex
Antonyms of verb sex
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sex
2 senses of sex
Sense 1
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
=> stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
=> arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
=> make, create
Sense 2
sex
=> distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
=> identify, place
=> determine, set
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb sex
1 of 2 senses of sex
Sense 1
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
=> tempt
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sex
2 senses of sex
Sense 1
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
=> stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
Sense 2
sex
=> distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
'Cause To' of verb sex
Derived Forms of verb sex
2 senses of sex
Sense 1
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
RELATED TO>(noun) sex#3
=> sex, sexual urge
RELATED TO>(noun) sex#1
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
Sense 2
sex
RELATED TO>(noun) sex#2
=> sex
RELATED TO>(noun) sex#4
=> sex, gender, sexuality
Domain of verb sex
Domain Terms of verb sex
Familiarity of verb sex
sex used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb sex
2 senses of sex
Sense 1
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
Sense 2
sex
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb sex
2 senses of sex
Sense 1
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
> stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
=> fuel
=> arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
=> frighten, fright, scare, affright
=> thrill, tickle, vibrate
=> tempt, invite
=> elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate
=> inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt
=> titillate
Sense 2
sex
> distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
=> know
=> discriminate, know apart
=> label
=> label
=> sex
=> individualize, individualise
=> contrast
=> severalize, severalise
=> contradistinguish
=> decouple, dissociate
=> demarcate
=> discriminate, separate, single out
=> stratify
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb sex
Sense 1
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
=> stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
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Sense 2
sex
=> distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
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Grep of verb sex
desex
have sex
sex
sex up
sexualise
sexualize
unsex
Grep of adj sex
sex-limited
sex-linked
sex-starved
sexagenarian
sexagesimal
sexed
sexist
sexless
sextuple
sexual
sexually attractive
sexy
unisex
Grep of adv sex
sexually
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