sexing
SaySEKS-ing/ˈsɛksɪŋ/
- 1The job of telling whether a baby chicken is male or female.
Like checking each baby bird to put it in the right group: male or female.
The sexing of newborn chicks is a skilled job at the farm.
Workers learn chick sexing through months of hands-on training.
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- 2Present participle of sex. Use this form for an action happening now.
The farmer is sexing the young chicks this morning.
They have been sexing chicks all day at the hatchery.
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sexing is a form of sex
sex, verb: To have sex with another person. Full entry
- Spelling
- sex → sexing: add -ing
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