Pronunciation Noun
sense
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. - c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. - a sense of security
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- high disdain from sense of injured merit
Sound practical or moral judgment. - It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
The meaning, reason, or value of something. - You don’t make any sense.
- the true sense of words or phrases
- Bible, Neh. viii. 8
- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
- c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- I think 'twas in another sense.
A natural appreciation or ability. - A keen musical sense
(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented. (semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary. - The definition of sense in this context, is given in sense 7 of its definition.
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise. (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- French: sens
- German: Gefühl, Sinn
- Italian: senso, coscienza, sensazione
- Portuguese: senso
- Russian: чу́вство
- Spanish: sensación
- French: sens
- German: Verstand
- Italian: senso, significato
- Portuguese: sentido
- Russian: смысл
- Spanish: sentido
- Russian: смысл
- French: sens
- German: Sinn, Bedeutung
- Italian: senso, significato
- Portuguese: sentido, significação, acepção, significado
- Russian: значе́ние
- Spanish: significado, acepción, sentido, significación
- Russian: направле́ние
- Spanish: sentido
sense (senses, present participle sensing; past and past participle sensed)
- To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
- To instinctively be aware.
- She immediately sensed her disdain.
- To comprehend.
- French: sentir
- German: wahrnehmen
- Italian: percepire
- Portuguese: sentir
- Russian: чу́вствовать
- Spanish: sentir
- Spanish: dar sentido
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