Sex : (noun)
1: activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex
in the back seat" [syn: sexual activity, sexual
practice, sex activity]
2: either of the two categories (male or female) into which
most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"
3: 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" [syn: sexual urge]
4: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of
their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex
of the foetus" [syn: gender, sexuality]
(verb)
1: stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male
audience" [syn: arouse, excite, turn on, wind up]
2: tell the sex (of young chickens)
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Sex- \Sex-\ [L.Sex : six. See Six.]
A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Sex : \Sex\, n. [L. sexus: cf. F. 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. (Bot.)
(a) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being
fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are
of opposite sexes.
(b) One of the groups founded on this distinction.
The sex, the female sex; women, in general.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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SEX. The physical difference between male and female in animals.
2. In the human species the male is called man, (q.v.) and the female,
woman. (q.v.) Some human beings whose sexual organs are somewhat imperfect,
have acquired the name of hermaphrodite. (q.v.)
3. In the civil state theSex : creates a difference among individuals.
Women cannot generally be elected or appointed to offices or service in
public capacities. In this our law agrees with that of other nations. The
civil law excluded women from all offices civil or public: Faemintae ab
omnibus officiis civilibus vel publicis remotae sunt. Dig. 50, 17, 2. The
principal reason of this exclusion is to encourage that modesty which is
natural to the female sex, and which renders them unqualified to mix and
contend with men; the pretended weakness of the sex is not probably the true
reason. Poth. Des Personnes, tit. 5; Wood's Inst. 12; Civ. Code of Louis.
art. 24; 1 Beck's Med. Juris. 94. Vide Gender; Male; Man; Women; Worthiest
of blood.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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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 general,
SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can
propagate a virus. See also pubic directory.
2. The mnemonic often used for Sign EXtend, a machine
instruction found in the PDP-11 and many other
architectures. The RCA 1802 chip used in the early Elf
and SuperElf personal computers had a "SEt X register" SEX
instruction, but this seems to have had little folkloric
impact.
DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used
the "SEX" mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once)
marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the
last time this happened, either. The author of "The Intel
8086 Primer", who was one of the original designers of the
Intel 8086, noted that there was originally a "SEX"
instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel
management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and
thus the instruction was renamed "CBW" and "CWD" (depending on
what was being extended). The Intel 8048 (the
microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing
straight "SEX" but has logical-or and logical-and instructions
"ORL" and "ANL".
Motorola_6809,_used_in_the_UK's_"{Dragon_32">The Motorola 6809, used in the UK's "{Dragon 32" personal
computer, actually had an official "SEX" instruction; the
6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did not.
British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after
all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical
level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an
apple.
[{Jargon File]
(1998-03-03)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Sex : /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 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 general, SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can
propagate a virus. See also pubic directory. 2. The rather Freudian
mnemonic often used for Sign EXtend, a machine instruction found in the
PDP-11 and many other architectures. The RCA 1802 chip used in the early
Elf and SuperElf personal computers had a `SEt X register' SEX
instruction, but this seems to have had little folkloric impact. The
Data General instruction set also had `SEX'.
DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the `SEX'
mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't
asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this happened,
either. The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who was one of the
original designers of the 8086, noted that there was originally a `SEX'
instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got
cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the instruction was
renamed `CBW' and `CWD' (depending on what was being extended).
Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards)
is also missing straight `SEX' but has logical-or and logical-and
instructions `ORL' and `ANL'.
The Motorola 6809, used in the Radio Shack Color Computer and in
U.K.'s `Dragon 32' personal computer, actually had an official `SEX'
instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did not.
British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after all, it
was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level) have sex
with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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