Main Difference

The main difference between Sence and Sense is that the Sence is a river in west Leicestershire, England and Sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception.

• Sence

  The River Sence is a river which flows in Leicestershire, England. The tributaries of the Sence, including the Saint and Tweed, fan out over much of western Leicestershire from Charnwood Forest and Coalville in the north-east to Hinckley and almost to Watling Street in the south and south-west. Its watershed almost coincides with Hinckley and Bosworth Borough of Leicestershire, which was formed in 1974 by amalgamation of Market Bosworth Rural District and Hinckley Urban District. It flows into the Anker, which in turn flows into the River Tame. It is part of the wider River Trent catchment, which covers much of central England. In 1881, Sebastian Evans wrote that the usual names for this river were Shenton Brook and Sibson Brook.

• Sense

  A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most notably neuroscience, cognitive psychology (or cognitive science), and philosophy of perception. The nervous system has a specific sensory nervous system, and a sense organ, or sensor, dedicated to each sense.

  Humans have a multitude of sensors. Sight (vision), hearing (audition), taste (gustation), smell (olfaction), and touch (somatosensation) are the five traditionally recognized senses. The ability to detect other stimuli beyond those governed by these most broadly recognized senses also exists, and these sensory modalities include temperature (thermoception), kinesthetic sense (proprioception), pain (nociception), balance (equilibrioception), vibration (mechanoreception), and various internal stimuli (e.g. the different chemoreceptors for detecting salt and carbon dioxide concentrations in the blood, or sense of hunger and sense of thirst). However, what constitutes a sense is a matter of some debate, leading to difficulties in defining what exactly a distinct sense is, and where the borders between responses to related stimuli lie.

  Other animals also have receptors to sense the world around them, with degrees of capability varying greatly between species. Humans have a comparatively weak sense of smell and a stronger sense of sight relative to many other mammals while some animals may lack one or more of the traditional five senses. Some animals may also intake and interpret sensory stimuli in very different ways. Some species of animals are able to sense the world in a way that humans cannot, with some species able to sense electrical and magnetic fields, and detect water pressure and currents.

• Sense (noun)

  a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch

  "the bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk"

• Sense (noun)

  a feeling that something is the case

  "she had the sense of being a political outsider"

  "you can improve your general health and sense of well-being"

• Sense (noun)

  a keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something

  "she had a fine sense of comic timing"

• Sense (noun)

  a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems

  "he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings"

• Sense (noun)

  a reasonable or comprehensible rationale

  "I can't see the sense in leaving all the work to you"

• Sense (noun)

  a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning

  "it is not clear which sense of the word ‘characters’ is intended in this passage"

• Sense (noun)

  a property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other

  "the cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite sense"

• Sense (noun)

  relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.

• Sense (verb)

  perceive by a sense or senses

  "with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days"

• Sense (verb)

  be aware of (something) without being able to define exactly how one knows

  "he could sense that he wasn't liked"

  "she could sense her father's anger rising"

• Sense (verb)

  (of a machine or similar device) detect

  "an optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor"

• Sense (noun)

  a general conscious awareness;

  "a sense of security"

  "a sense of happiness"

  "a sense of danger"

  "a sense of self"

• Sense (noun)

  the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted;

  "the dictionary gave several senses for the word"

  "in the best sense charity is really a duty"

  "the signifier is linked to the signified"

• Sense (noun)

  the faculty through which the external world is apprehended;

  "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

• Sense (noun)

  sound practical judgment;

  "I can't see the sense in doing it now"

  "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"

  "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

• Sense (noun)

  a natural appreciation or ability;

  "a keen musical sense"

  "a good sense of timing"

• Sense (verb)

  perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles;

  "He felt the wind"

  "She felt an object brushing her arm"

  "He felt his flesh crawl"

  "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"

• Sense (verb)

  detect some circumstance or entity automatically;

  "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"

  "particle detectors sense ionization"

• Sense (verb)

  become aware of not through the senses but instinctively;

  "I sense his hostility"

• Sense (verb)

  comprehend;

  "I sensed the real meaning of his letter"

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