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sex
A	noun
	1	sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
			activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"
		Category Tree: phenomenon ╚process ╚organic process; biological process ╚bodily process; body process; bodily function; activity ╚sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity ╚reproduction; procreation; breeding; facts of life ╚coupling; mating; pairing; conjugation; union; sexual union ╚carnal abuse ╚sexual love; lovemaking; making love; love; love life ╚pleasure ╚sexual intercourse; intercourse; sex act; copulation; coitus; coition; sexual congress; congress; sexual relation; relation; carnal knowledge ╚conception ╚safe sex ╚outercourse ╚bondage
	2	sex, gender, sexuality
			the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚property ╚bodily property ╚physiological property ╚sex, gender, sexuality ╚femaleness; feminineness ╚androgyny; hermaphroditism; bisexuality ╚maleness; masculinity
	3	sex, sexual urge
			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"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚feeling ╚sex, sexual urge
	4	sex
			either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚collection; aggregation; accumulation; assemblage ╚class; category; family ╚sex
B	verb
	1	sex
			tell the sex (of young chickens)
		Category Tree: determine; set ╚identify; place ╚distinguish; separate; differentiate; secern; secernate; severalize; severalise; tell; tell apart ╚sex
	2	arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
			stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
		Category Tree: make; create ╚arouse; elicit; enkindle; kindle; evoke; fire; raise; provoke ╚stimulate; shake; shake up; excite; stir ╚arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up ╚tempt

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