sex Význam & definícia

Význam sex v slovenčine

• 0 the state of being either male or female:

  • What sex is your cat?

  • Some tests enable you to find out the sex of your baby before it's born.

  • It's illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of (their) sex.

  • She accused her employer of sex discrimination (= of treating her unfairly because she was a woman).

  • She seems to regard all members of the male sex as inferior.

  • Members of the opposite sex are not allowed in students' rooms overnight.

• 1 physical activity between people involving the sexual organs:

  • Sex before/outside marriage is strongly disapproved of in some cultures.

  • She was complaining about all the sex and violence on television.

  • She'd been having sex with a colleague at work for years.

  • Most young people now receive sex education at school.

  • extramarital/premarital sex

  • casual sex (= sex with someone you do not know)

  • unprotected sex (= sex without using something to prevent disease or becoming pregnant)

• 2 to discover if an animal is male or female:

  • How do you sex fish?

• 3 the state of being either male or female, or all males or all females considered as a group :

  • [ C ] List the name, age, and sex of each of your children.

  • [ U ] Employment discrimination on the basis of sex is illegal.

• 4 the activity of sexual intercourse