sex
part of speech
noun (sex — uncountable; a sex, sexes)
meaning for a pupil
1) Sex is being male or female; people and most animals are born one sex or the other, decided by their body. tree →
2) A sex is one of these two groups, as in "both sexes". tree →
3) Sex is also a private, physical act of love between adults, which is how babies can be made. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons sex is about biology: animals and plants have male and female parts, and reproduction makes new living things. Forms may ask your sex (male or female). In health and relationships lessons, older pupils learn that sex is a private, grown-up thing; in safety lessons, children learn that their body is private and that they should tell a trusted adult if anyone makes them uncomfortable. Phrases: "the opposite sex", "both sexes", "single-sex school", "sex education".
examples
- Some fish can change their sex. tree →
- You can tell the sex of a lion by its mane. tree →
- Our school is a single-sex school for girls. tree →
- The form asks for your name, age and sex. tree →
- In science, we learned how flowers have male and female parts. tree →
- Sex education is part of health lessons for older pupils. tree →
- Male and female birds of the same kind can look very different. tree →
- The sex test at the end is different from any of those enumerated by Prof. tree →
note
Uncountable for the act and the idea; countable for the groups ("the two sexes"). Adjective: sexual; "sexist" means treating people unfairly because of their sex. Many people use "gender" for the roles and identity people have in society, and "sex" for the body. It is a private topic: if anyone talks to a child about sex in a way that feels wrong, the child should tell a trusted adult.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sex» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.