[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gender \gen"der\ je^n"d~er, n. of. genre, gendre with
   excrescent d., f.genre, fr. l. genus, generis, birth,
   descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere,
   to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to e. kin. see kin,
   and cf. generate, genre, gentle, genus.
   1913 webster
   1. kind; sort. obs. "one gender of herbs." --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. sex, male or female.
      1913 webster

   note: the use of the term gender to refer to the sex of an
         animal, especially a person, was once common, then fell
         into disuse as the term became used primarily for the
         distinction of grammatical declension forms in
         inflected words. in the late 1900's, the term again
         became used to refer to the sex of people, as a
         euphemism for the term sex, especially in discussions
         of laws and policies on equal treatment of sexes.
         objections by prescriptivists that the term should be
         used only in a grammatical context ignored the earlier
         uses.
         pjc

   3. gram. a classification of nouns, primarily according to
      sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed
      quality associated with sex.
      1913 webster

            gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to
            words only. sex is natural distinction and applies
            to living objects.                    --r. morris.
      1913 webster

   note: adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when
         the form is varied according to the gender of the words
         to which they refer.
         1913 webster
see also:
kin generate genre gentle genus sex 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sex- \sex-\ l. sex six. see six.
   a combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial.
   1913 webster
see also:
six 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

   2. one of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the
      distinction of male and female.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

   the sex, the female sex; women, in general.
      1913 webster
see also:
the sex 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

sex
     n 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
     v 1: stimulate sexually; "this movie usually arouses the male
          audience" syn: arouse, excite, turn on, wind up
     2: tell the sex of young chickens
see also:
sexual activity sexual practice sex activity sexual urge gender sexuality 
arouse excite turn on wind up 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

120 moby thesaurus words for "sex":
   amor, christian love, eros, platonic love, act of love, admiration,
   adoration, adultery, affection, agape, amorous, aphrodisia,
   ardency, ardor, ass, attachment, balling, bodily love,
   brotherly love, caritas, carnal, carnal knowledge, charity, climax,
   cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce,
   congress, conjugal love, connection, copula, copulation, coupling,
   desire, devotion, diddling, erogenic, erogenous, erotic,
   erotogenic, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, fleshly, fondness,
   fornication, free love, free-lovism, gamic, heart, hero worship,
   heterosexual, idolatry, idolism, idolization, intercourse,
   intimacy, lasciviousness, libidinal, libido, like, liking, love,
   lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act,
   married love, mating, meat, nuptial, onanism, orgasm, oversexed,
   ovum, pareunia, passion, physical love, popular regard, popularity,
   potent, procreation, procreative, regard, relations, screwing,
   sensual, sentiment, sex act, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexual climax,
   sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual love,
   sexual relations, sexual union, sexualize, sexy, shine,
   sleeping with, sperm, spiritual love, straight, tender feeling,
   tender passion, truelove, undersexed, uxoriousness, venereal,
   venery, voluptuous, weakness, worship, yearning

[6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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.


see also:
good thing virus pubic directory dec 

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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".
     
        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
     
     
see also:
good thing virus pubic directory mnemonic pdp-11 rca 1802 
elf personal computers assembler intel 8086 intel 8048 
microcontroller ibm pc motorola 6809 dragon 32 personal computer 
6502 apple ii jargon file 

[8] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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 the sex 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. 

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