Sex vs. Gender

Sexnoun

(countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.

Sexnoun

(countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.

Sexnoun

(countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.

Sexnoun

(uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.

Sexnoun

Women; the human female sex and those who belong to it.

Sexnoun

(uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.

Sexnoun

Genitalia: a penis or vagina.

Sexnoun

(obsolete) lang=en.

Sexverb

To determine the sex of an animal.

Sexverb

To have sex with.

Sexnoun

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.

Sexnoun

One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.

Sexnoun

The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.

Sexnoun

activities associated with sexual intercourse;

Sexnoun

either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided;

Sexnoun

all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses;

Sexnoun

the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;

Sexverb

stimulate sexually;

Sexverb

tell the sex (of young chickens)

Sexnoun

(chiefly with reference to people) sexual activity, including specifically sexual intercourse

Sexnoun

a person's genitals.

Sexnoun

either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions

Sexnoun

the members of either sex considered as a group

Sexnoun

the fact of belonging to either the male or female sex

Sexverb

determine the sex of

Sexverb

present something in a more interesting or lively way.

Sexverb

arouse or attempt to arouse someone sexually.

Sex

Sex is a trait that determines an individual's reproductive function, male or female, in animals and plants that propagate their species through sexual reproduction. The type of gametes produced by an organism defines its sex.

Gendernoun

Grammatical gender.

Gendernoun

(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common.

Gendernoun

(grammar) Any division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.

Gendernoun

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Gendernoun

(obsolete) Class; kind.

Gendernoun

Sex a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.

Gendernoun

(sociology) Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. Compare gender role, gender identity.

Gendernoun

(hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).

Genderverb

(sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.

Genderverb

(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

Genderverb

(archaic) To engender.

Genderverb

To breed.

Gendernoun

Kind; sort.

Gendernoun

Sex, male or female.

Gendernoun

A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

Genderverb

To beget; to engender.

Genderverb

To copulate; to breed.

Gendernoun

a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness

Gendernoun

the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;

Gendernoun

either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female

Gendernoun

members of a particular gender considered as a group

Gendernoun

the fact or condition of belonging to or identifying with a particular gender

Gendernoun

(in languages such as Latin, French, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections which they have and which they require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex.

Gendernoun

the property (in nouns and related words) of belonging to a grammatical gender

Gender

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, femininity and masculinity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex, sex-based social structures (i.e., gender roles), or gender identity.