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单词 intercourse
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Definition of intercourse in English:

intercourse

noun ˈɪntəkɔːsˈɪn(t)ərˌkɔrs
  • 1mass noun Communication or dealings between individuals or groups.

    everyday social intercourse
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This obviously saves time and adds spontaneity to social intercourse.
    • Hunting, like the army, was in any case an extension of normal political intercourse and business.
    • The Gaelic language ensures that even the most mundane of social intercourse became occasions of prayer.
    • Vanity is the cheese in the submarine sandwich of social intercourse.
    • Ed is a lump whose idea of social intercourse is playing video games and practical jokes.
    • But even this line of attack fails to separate cliché from the common forms of polite social intercourse.
    • Ghanaian food is a currency for social intercourse: you walk into a person's home, therefore you are supposed to eat there.
    • Intellectually too, there seems to have been a surprising degree of intercourse between Europeans and the people of Lucknow.
    • His feeling is that the community needs the service as a place for social intercourse.
    • As Europe's economy and society were relatively integrated, intellectual intercourse was easier than it seemed.
    • Eye contact is essential for effective social intercourse.
    • The same is happening with the WTO's attempt to impose a systematic rule of law on international intercourse.
    • The people, she indicted, were not handsome and had no idea of the charms of friendly society or of social intercourse.
    • What was expected of the government was friendship, social intercourse, and sympathy.
    • Travel to almost any city or resort in Europe and you'll see Irish, Scots and Welsh in friendly social intercourse with the locals.
    • He was a perfectionist and he could be strict in social intercourse.
    • Honestly, this constant social intercourse is just exhausting.
    • Such friendly intercourse was not the only way immigrants became native.
    • Their language cuts through the niceties of social intercourse to fundamentals.
    • Some of them talk indifferently about intercourse and interstate trade.
    Synonyms
    dealings, relations, relationships, association, connections, contact, interchange, communication, intercommunication, communion, correspondence, negotiations, bargaining, transactions, proceedings
    trade, trading, business, commerce, traffic, trafficking
    informal truck, doings
  • 2

    short for sexual intercourse
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In terms of pregnancy, each additional act of unprotected intercourse increases risk.
    • The result was painful intercourse for Esther and orgasm for neither spouse.
    • Upon completion of our intercourse, I took a cigarette from the few I had left, and lit up.
    • Testing and monitoring this process enables would-be parents to pinpoint the optimum moment for intercourse.
    • By having intercourse with a girl under the age of 16, the teenage boy has broken the law regardless of whether his partner was willing.
    • Figure 1 may be useful for couples who wish to time their intercourse to occur during the woman's fertile window.
    • He would not let her leave his flat for more than four hours and also forced the 30-year-old to have intercourse.
    • Heterosexual intercourse is the most common mode of transmission of HIV in poor countries.
    • It is moral because it does not allow man to have intercourse with any woman he wishes, at any time he likes.
    • Don't give up on your relationship because intercourse has been temporarily eliminated.
    • The two didn't have intercourse, she says, but they did everything else.
    • Patterson claimed the intercourse had been consensual and encouraged by her.
    • First intercourse is rarely about love; it is often about peer pressure and the need to conform to it.
    • He claimed she had wanted sex and they had intercourse.
    • During intercourse, try the stop-and-start technique when the sensations become strong.
    • She described the third incident as similar to the second but that the intercourse took place at night.
    • Toward the middle and end of adolescence, more young people engage in heterosexual intercourse.
    • Regular intercourse two to three times a week should be advised, but basal body temperature charts are not helpful and should be avoided.
    • Thus, the length of foreplay may influence the duration of intercourse and vice versa.
    • Timing intercourse to achieve or avoid pregnancy cannot be done with precision.
    Synonyms
    sexual intercourse, sex, lovemaking, making love, sex act, act of love, sexual relations, intimate relations, intimacy, coupling, mating, going to bed with someone, sleeping with someone
    informal nooky
    British informal bonking, rumpy pumpy, a bit of the other, how's your father
    South African informal pata-pata
    vulgar slang screwing, fucking
    British vulgar slang shagging
    formal coitus, coition, copulation
    formal fornication
    archaic carnal knowledge, (sexual) congress, commerce

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French entrecours 'exchange, commerce', from Latin intercursus, from intercurrere 'intervene', from inter- 'between' + currere 'run'. The specifically sexual use arose in the late 18th century.

  • cursor from Middle English:

    Nowadays we call the movable indicator on our computer screen the cursor. In medieval English a cursor was a running messenger: it is a borrowing of the Latin word for ‘a runner’, and comes from currere ‘to run’. From the late 16th century cursor became the term for a sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument, marked with a line for pinpointing the position on a scale that you want, the forerunner of the computing sense. Currere is the source of very many English words including course (Middle English) something you run along; concourse (Late Middle English) originally a crowd who had ‘run together’; current (Middle English) originally meaning ‘running, flowing’; discursive (late 16th century) running away from the point; excursion (late 16th century) running out to see things; intercourse (Late Middle English) originally an exchange running between people; and precursor (Late Middle English) one who goes before; as well as supplying the cur part of concur (Late Middle English); incur (Late Middle English); occur (Late Middle English) (from ob- ‘against’); and recur (Middle English).

 
 

Definition of intercourse in US English:

intercourse

nounˈɪn(t)ərˌkɔrsˈin(t)ərˌkôrs
  • 1Communication or dealings between individuals or groups.

    everyday social intercourse
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Intellectually too, there seems to have been a surprising degree of intercourse between Europeans and the people of Lucknow.
    • Their language cuts through the niceties of social intercourse to fundamentals.
    • Honestly, this constant social intercourse is just exhausting.
    • Hunting, like the army, was in any case an extension of normal political intercourse and business.
    • But even this line of attack fails to separate cliché from the common forms of polite social intercourse.
    • Some of them talk indifferently about intercourse and interstate trade.
    • His feeling is that the community needs the service as a place for social intercourse.
    • Eye contact is essential for effective social intercourse.
    • Travel to almost any city or resort in Europe and you'll see Irish, Scots and Welsh in friendly social intercourse with the locals.
    • Vanity is the cheese in the submarine sandwich of social intercourse.
    • As Europe's economy and society were relatively integrated, intellectual intercourse was easier than it seemed.
    • The people, she indicted, were not handsome and had no idea of the charms of friendly society or of social intercourse.
    • What was expected of the government was friendship, social intercourse, and sympathy.
    • Such friendly intercourse was not the only way immigrants became native.
    • Ed is a lump whose idea of social intercourse is playing video games and practical jokes.
    • He was a perfectionist and he could be strict in social intercourse.
    • This obviously saves time and adds spontaneity to social intercourse.
    • Ghanaian food is a currency for social intercourse: you walk into a person's home, therefore you are supposed to eat there.
    • The Gaelic language ensures that even the most mundane of social intercourse became occasions of prayer.
    • The same is happening with the WTO's attempt to impose a systematic rule of law on international intercourse.
    Synonyms
    dealings, relations, relationships, association, connections, contact, interchange, communication, intercommunication, communion, correspondence, negotiations, bargaining, transactions, proceedings
    1. 1.1
      short for sexual intercourse
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Patterson claimed the intercourse had been consensual and encouraged by her.
      • Timing intercourse to achieve or avoid pregnancy cannot be done with precision.
      • Thus, the length of foreplay may influence the duration of intercourse and vice versa.
      • He claimed she had wanted sex and they had intercourse.
      • He would not let her leave his flat for more than four hours and also forced the 30-year-old to have intercourse.
      • First intercourse is rarely about love; it is often about peer pressure and the need to conform to it.
      • Toward the middle and end of adolescence, more young people engage in heterosexual intercourse.
      • Regular intercourse two to three times a week should be advised, but basal body temperature charts are not helpful and should be avoided.
      • It is moral because it does not allow man to have intercourse with any woman he wishes, at any time he likes.
      • Heterosexual intercourse is the most common mode of transmission of HIV in poor countries.
      • The result was painful intercourse for Esther and orgasm for neither spouse.
      • By having intercourse with a girl under the age of 16, the teenage boy has broken the law regardless of whether his partner was willing.
      • Don't give up on your relationship because intercourse has been temporarily eliminated.
      • She described the third incident as similar to the second but that the intercourse took place at night.
      • Figure 1 may be useful for couples who wish to time their intercourse to occur during the woman's fertile window.
      • Upon completion of our intercourse, I took a cigarette from the few I had left, and lit up.
      • The two didn't have intercourse, she says, but they did everything else.
      • Testing and monitoring this process enables would-be parents to pinpoint the optimum moment for intercourse.
      • In terms of pregnancy, each additional act of unprotected intercourse increases risk.
      • During intercourse, try the stop-and-start technique when the sensations become strong.
      Synonyms
      sexual intercourse, sex, lovemaking, making love, sex act, act of love, sexual relations, intimate relations, intimacy, coupling, mating, going to bed with someone, sleeping with someone

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French entrecours ‘exchange, commerce’, from Latin intercursus, from intercurrere ‘intervene’, from inter- ‘between’ + currere ‘run’. The specifically sexual use arose in the late 18th century.

 
 
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