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Sext vs Sexp - What's the difference?

sext | sexp |

As nouns the difference between sext and sexp

is that sext is the fourth of the canonical hours; usually held at noon while sexp is a symbolic expression.

As a verb sext

is to send a sext message.

sext

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The fourth of the canonical hours; usually held at noon.

    • Etymology 2

    , which is more common.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sexual text message.
  • Any electronic message with sexual context.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To send a sext message.
  • To send (someone) a (sext message).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 2010-04-16 , title = Sex suspended, celibacy supreme , first = Victoria , last = Gehman , work = Albany Student Press , url = http://www.albanystudentpress.org/sex-suspended-celibacy-supreme-1.1346703 , passage = The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package. When I opened the file the image was unlike anything I'd ever seen. "No wonder he's a sex addict!" I thought. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2011-11-14 , title = The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass , first = Bill , last = Maher , authorlink = Bill Maher , publisher = Penguin , isbn = 9781101552155 , passage = This week, we found out Vikings quarterback Brett Favre allegedly tried to get with a young woman by sending her Myspace messages, voicemails, and notes through a friend, and when none of that worked, it was third and long—though not as long as most of us would have imagined—he decided to sext her pictures of Little Brett to close the deal. }}
    Synonyms
    * sex-text

    Derived terms

    * (l)
    Usage notes
    * Particularly used as (sexting). ----

    sexp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A symbolic expression.
  • * 1992 , Michael A Schoonover, John S Bowie, William Robert Arnold, GNU Emacs: UNIX text editing and programming
    • The fact that lists and sexps can contain nested lists and sexps is important...
  • * 2005 , Peter Seibel, Practical Common Lisp
    • ...HTML and CSS generation from sexps ...