Senceadverb
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Sensenoun
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
Sencepreposition
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Sensenoun
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
âa sense of securityâ;
Senceconjunction
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Sensenoun
Sound practical or moral judgment.
âIt's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.â;
Sensenoun
The meaning, reason, or value of something.
âYou donât make any sense.â; âthe true sense of words or phrasesâ;
Sensenoun
A natural appreciation or ability.
âA keen musical senseâ;
Sensenoun
(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
Sensenoun
(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
Sensenoun
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
Sensenoun
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
Sensenoun
(biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
Senseverb
To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
Senseverb
To instinctively be aware.
âShe immediately sensed her disdain.â;
Senseverb
To comprehend.
Sensenoun
A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
âLet fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.â; âWhat surmounts the reachOf human sense I shall delineate.â; âThe traitor Sense recallsThe soaring soul from rest.â;
Sensenoun
Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
âIn a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.â;
Sensenoun
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
âThis Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover.â; âHigh disdain from sense of injured merit.â;
Sensenoun
Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
âHe raves; his words are looseAs heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense.â;
Sensenoun
That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
âI speak my private but impartial senseWith freedom.â; âThe municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens.â;
Sensenoun
Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
âSo they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.â; âI think 't was in another sense.â;
Sensenoun
Moral perception or appreciation.
âSome are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.â;
Sensenoun
One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
Senseverb
To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
âIs he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him?â;
Sensenoun
a general conscious awareness;
âa sense of securityâ; âa sense of happinessâ; âa sense of dangerâ; âa sense of selfâ;
Sensenoun
the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted;
âthe dictionary gave several senses for the wordâ; âin the best sense charity is really a dutyâ; âthe signifier is linked to the signifiedâ;
Sensenoun
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended;
âin the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearingâ;
Sensenoun
sound practical judgment;
âI can't see the sense in doing it nowâ; âhe hasn't got the sense God gave little green applesâ; âfortunately she had the good sense to run awayâ;
Sensenoun
a natural appreciation or ability;
âa keen musical senseâ; âa good sense of timingâ;
Senseverb
perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles;
âHe felt the windâ; âShe felt an object brushing her armâ; âHe felt his flesh crawlâ; âShe felt the heat when she got out of the carâ;
Senseverb
detect some circumstance or entity automatically;
âThis robot can sense the presence of people in the roomâ; âparticle detectors sense ionizationâ;
Senseverb
become aware of not through the senses but instinctively;
âI sense his hostilityâ;
Senseverb
comprehend;
âI sensed the real meaning of his letterâ;
Sensenoun
a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch
âthe bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at duskâ;
Sensenoun
a feeling that something is the case
âshe had the sense of being a political outsiderâ; âyou can improve your general health and sense of well-beingâ;
Sensenoun
a keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something
âshe had a fine sense of comic timingâ;
Sensenoun
a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems
âhe earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetingsâ;
Sensenoun
a reasonable or comprehensible rationale
âI can't see the sense in leaving all the work to youâ;
Sensenoun
a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning
âit is not clear which sense of the word âcharactersâ is intended in this passageâ;
Sensenoun
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
âthe cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite senseâ;
Sensenoun
relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.
Senseverb
perceive by a sense or senses
âwith the first frost, they could sense a change in the daysâ;
Senseverb
be aware of (something) without being able to define exactly how one knows
âhe could sense that he wasn't likedâ; âshe could sense her father's anger risingâ;
Senseverb
(of a machine or similar device) detect
âan optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductorâ;
Sense
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the world and responding to stimuli. (For example, in the human body, the brain receives signals from the senses, which continuously receive information from the environment, interprets these signals, and causes the body to respond, either chemically or physically.) Although traditionally around five human senses were known (namely sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing), it is now recognized that there are many more.