{
  "id": "male.sex",
  "term": "male",
  "sense": "sex",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "male",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person whose biological sex differs from that of a female",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sex.biological",
      "difference.relation",
      "female.sex",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "biological sex and difference interact to distinguish a subclass within persons defined in contrast to female",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sexual distinction in people",
      "asymmetric contrast to female",
      "socially situated sex class"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, a human male named Alex Rivera donated blood at a clinic in Toronto, where his XY chromosomes were confirmed via karyotype analysis.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1987 World Health Organization report classified male sex as defined by presence of Y chromosomes and testes in human fetuses observed in prenatal screenings.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A 2022 genomic study at MIT compared gene expression in tissue samples from 150 male humans, identifying SRY gene activity on chromosome Y.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sex.biological",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "female.sex",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "male",
    "males"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition corrected to reflect that 'male' refers to a subclass of persons in contrast to female, requiring both 'female.sex' and 'people.social' as necessary components previously omitted."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-male.sex"
}