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Definition of 'sense'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sense
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.

2.  sense
these faculties collectively.

3.  sense
their operation or function; sensation.

4.  sense
a feeling or perception produced through one of the senses:
a sense of cold.

5.  sense
a faculty or function of the mind analogous to a physical sense:
the moral sense.

6.  sense
any special capacity for perception, estimation, appreciation, etc.:
a sense of humor.

7.  sense
Usu., senses. sanity:
Have you taken leave of your senses?

8.  sense
a more or less vague perception or impression:
a sense of security.

9.  sense
a mental discernment, realization, or recognition:
a sense of value.

10.  sense
a motivating awareness:
a sense of duty.

11.  sense
sound practical intelligence.

12.  sense
reasonable thought or discourse:
to talk sense.

13.  sense
substance or gist; content:
You missed the sense of his statement.

14.  sense
value; merit:
There's no sense in worrying.

15.  sense
a DNA sequence that is capable of coding for an amino acid

16.  sense
the meaning of a word or phrase in a specific context, esp. as isolated in a dictionary or glossary.

17.  sense
consensus:
the sense of a meeting.

18. (v.t.) sense
to perceive by the senses; become aware of.

19.  sense
to grasp the meaning of; understand.

20.  sense
to detect (physical phenomena, as light or temperature) mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.

Definition of 'sense'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sense
a general conscious awareness
"a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self"

2. (noun) sense, signified
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"

3. (noun) sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
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"

4. (noun) common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
sound practical judgment
"Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

5. (verb) sense
a natural appreciation or ability
"a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing"

6. (verb) feel, sense
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"

7. (verb) sense
detect some circumstance or entity automatically
"This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization"

8. (verb) smell, smell out, sense
become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
"I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption"

9. (verb) sense
comprehend
"I sensed the real meaning of his letter"

Definition of 'sense'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) sense
reasonable or logical thought or behavior
I sometimes wonder if he has any sense at all.; I hope she had the sense to bring a raincoat.; There's no sense in complaining until you know the facts.

2.  sense
an awareness that makes you act in particular way
He's going to the funeral out of a sense of duty.; a child's sense of justice

3.  sense
one of the body's physical abilities
animals with a highly developed sense of smell/hearing/sight

4.  sense
in a sense
considering sth from a particular perspective
We are, in a sense, all related to each other.

5.  sense
make sense
to be sensible or logical
Wouldn't it make more sense for us all to travel in the same car?

6.  sense
to be able to be understood
The first paragraph didn't make any sense.

7.  sense
make sense of
to be able to understand what sth means
I couldn't make sense of the strange noises I was hearing.

8.  sense
sense of humor
the ability to find sth funny
You have to have a good sense of humor to work here.

9.  sense
come to your senses
to start behaving sensibly after behaving stupidly
She eventually came to her senses and broke up with him.

10. (verb) sense
to recognize or understand without being told
I sensed that she was angry.

Definition of 'sense'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) sense
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

2. (verb) sense
perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling

3. (verb) sense
perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation

4. (verb) sense
sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning

5. (verb) sense
that which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion

6. (verb) sense
meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark

7. (verb) sense
moral perception or appreciation

8. (verb) sense
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

9. (verb) sense
to perceive by the senses; to recognize

Translation of 'sense'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: one of the five powers (hearing, taste, sight, smell, touch) by which a person or animal feels or notices.
Afrikaans: sintuig	Arabic: حاسَّه	Bulgarian: сетиво
Brazilian: sentido	Czech: smysl	German: der Sinn
Danish: sans	Greek: αίσθηση (μία από τις πέντ	Spanish: sentido
Estonian: meel	Farsi: يكي از حواس پنجگانه	Finnish: aisti
French: sens	Hebrew: חוּש	Hindi: ज्ञानेन्द्रिय
Croatian: osjetilo	Hungarian: érzék	Indonesian: indera
Icelandic: skyn, skilningarvit	Italian: senso	Japanese: 感覚
Korean: 감각	Lithuanian: pojūtis	Latvian: sajūta
Malay: deria	Dutch: zintuig	Norwegian: sans
Polish: zmysł	Persian: يكي از حواس پنجگانه	Pashto: حس: احساس، تميز،عقل، شعور
Portuguese: sentido	Romanian: simţ	Russian: чувство
Slovak: zmysel	Slovenian: čut(ilo)	Serbian: čulo
Swedish: sinne	Thai: ประสาทสัมผัส	Turkish: duyu, his
Taiwanese: 五種感官之一	Ukrainian: почуття	Urdu: شعور ادراک، حس
Vietnamese: giác quan	Chinese: 感官
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