1. имя существительное 1) пол Например: the female sex — женский пол the male sex — мужской пол member of the opposite sex — представитель противоположного пола the fair / weaker sex — прекрасный пол, слабый пол, женщины the sterner / stronger sex — сильный пол, мужчины the sex [шутливое] — женщины 2) секс, половая жизнь Например: illicit sex — противозаконный секс kinky / perverse sex — извращённый секс premarital sex — добрачная половая жизнь sex instinct — половой инстинкт to have sex with somebody — заниматься сексом с кем-либо 2. глагол определять пол
имя существительное 1) общая лексика пол Например: male [female] sex — мужской [женский] пол Please put your name, age, and sex at the top of the form. — Пожалуйста, напишите ваше имя, возраст и пол вверху бланка. You can now tell the sex of a baby before it is born. — Сейчас можно узнать пол ребенка до его рождения. He is terrified of the opposite sex. — Он боится противоположного пола. She's prosecuting the company for sex discrimination. — Она обвиняет компанию в половой дискриминации. 2) общая лексика секс (половые отношения) Например: premarital sex — добрачная половая жизнь All you see on TV is sex and violence these days. — Все, что показывают на экранах в наше время это секс и насилие.
I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin sexus 1. either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures 2. the sum of the structural, functional, and behavioral characteristics of organisms that are involved in reproduction marked by the union of gametes and that distinguish males and females 3. a. sexually motivated phenomena or behavior b. sexual intercourse 4. genitalia II. transitive verb 1. to identify the sex of Example: sex newborn chicks 2. a. to increase the sexual appeal of — often used with up b. to arouse the sexual desires of
/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.