Sex appeal

Definition

sex /seks/ n ၁။ (က) [U] လိင္။ အထီးအမ။ ဖိုမသဘာဝ။ What sex is your dog? ❍ Anyone can apply, regardless of age, race or sex. ❍ sex discrimination (ie treating sb differently because of their sex). (ခ) [C] လိင္။ the opposite sex ❍ the conflict between the sexes. See also THE FAIR SEX ၂။ [U] (က) (also fml sexual intercourse, intercourse) ~ (with sb ) လိင္ဆက္ဆံျခင္း။ ဖိုမ ဆက္ဆံျခင္း။ သံဝါသ။ ေမထုန္မီွဝဲ ျခင္း။ have sex (with sb) ❍ They often had sex together. ❍ a sex manual (ie giving information on sexual behaviour) ❍ a sex shop (ie selling pictures of sex, devices to make sex more enjoyable, etc). (ခ) လိင္ဆက္ဆံျခင္း။ သံဝါသ။ gay sex. ၃။ [U] လိင္ကိစၥ။ ဖိုမကိစၥ။ sex education ❍ public attitudes to sex ❍ girls becoming interested in sex at an earlier age. v အထီးအမ ေရြးျခင္း၊ ခြဲျခင္း။ sexing young chicks. ❏ sex act n လိင္ဆက္ဆံျခင္း။ လိင္ကိစၥ။ take part in/ perform sex acts. ❏ sex appeal n [U] ညိႇဳ႕ဓာတ္။ ရမၼက္ေဆး။ a man with lots of sex appeal. ❏ -sexed (forming compound adjs ) (တဏွာ၊ ရာဂစိတ္ ပမာဏျပေနာက္ဆက္)။ over-sexed ❍ a highly-sexed youth. ❏ sexless adj ‘ ၁။ ေမထုန္မီွဝဲ မႈကင္းေသာ။ a sexless relationship. ၂။ နပုလႅိင္။ a statue of strange sexless figures. ❏ sex life n ကာမရသ ခံစားမႈ။ a satisfying/ flagging sex life. ❏ sex object n ကာမသားေကာင္အျဖစ္ သေဘာ ထားခံရသူ (အမ်ဳိးသမီး)။ ❏ sex offender n လိင္ျပစ္မႈ က်ဴးလြန္သူ။ ❏ sex-starved adj ( infml ) တဏွာေပမ ခ်င္ရဲ မေျပေသာ။ ❏ sex symbol n ညိႇဳ႕ဓာတ္တြင္ လွ်မ္းလွ်မ္း ေတာက္သူ။ a Hollywood sex symbol. ❏ sexy adj ( -ier , -iest ) ( infml ) ၁။ တဏွာ၊ ရာဂ ကိစၥ။ a sexy book/ film ❍ make sexy suggestions. ၂။ (က) ညိႇဳ႕ဓာတ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ ရမၼက္ႂကြေစေသာ။ You look very sexy in that outfit. (ခ) လိင္စိတ္ျဖစ္ေပၚေသာ။ ရမၼက္ႂကြေသာ။ I stopped feeling sexy after having the baby. ကေလးရၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ လင္စိတ္သားစိတ္ ကုန္သြားတယ္။ sexily adv sexiness n [U]

Examples

1. Please don’t talk about sex in front of the children.
2. The impact of sex and violence in TV programmes
3. [have sex] : Parents worry about their teenagers having sex.
4. A sex partner (=someone who you have sex with)
5. A sex scandal involving the President
6. Equal treatment of the sexes
7. The hostel has separate sleeping areas for each sex.
8. Discrimination against someone based on their sex is illegal.
9. We don’t want to know the sex of our baby before it is born.