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sex [n][en]

1)	activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"

Synonyms :

sex_activity sexual_activity sexual_practice sexo atividade_sexual prática_sexual la_actividad_sexual la_práctica_sexual сексуальной_активности сексуальная_практика поле_деятельности 性活动性实践性的行為性行為セックスのアクティビティ attività_sessuale pratiche_sessuali sex_attività sexuelle_aktivität sexuelle_praxis sex-aktivität l'activité_sexuelle sexe_activité 성행위 성적인_연습 섹스_횟수

2)	the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"

Synonyms :

gender sexuality gênero sexo sexualidade пол 性别 sexualidad сексуальность 性 genere sexe geschlecht セクシュアリティ sessualità sexualität la_sexualité 성별 성욕

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"

Synonyms :

sexual_urge sexo desejo_sexual 性欲 impulso_sexual половое_влечение 性的衝動 sessuale_esortare sexualtrieb exhortons_sexuelle 성적_충동

See Also:

feeling arouse

4)	either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"

Synonyms :

sexo

See Also:

category

sex [v][en]

1)	tell the sex (of young chickens)

Synonyms :

sexo секс セックス sesso 섹스

See Also:

differentiate gender

2)	stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

Synonyms :

arouse excite turn_on wind_up despertar excitar encerrar sexo ativar вызывать 引起 возбуждение 激发 секс включите 结业 éveiller suscitare wecken 일으키다 呼び起こすセックス erregen 자극 エキサイトオン風に逆らって sesso einschalten eingereicht allumer liquidation 섹스 켜십시오

See Also:

excite turn-on tempt

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

/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)

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