sense

perceive, grasp, comprehend
Not to be confused with:cents – pennies, bronze coinsscents – odors, perfumessince – from then until now; between then and now; before now

sense

C0195500 (sĕns)n.1. a. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.b. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation: a sense of fatigue and hunger.2. senses The faculties of sensation as means of providing physical gratification and pleasure.3. a. An intuitive or acquired perception or ability to estimate: a sense of diplomatic timing.b. A capacity to appreciate or understand: a keen sense of humor.c. A vague feeling or presentiment: a sense of impending doom.d. Recognition or perception either through the senses or through the intellect; consciousness: has no sense of shame.4. a. Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters: The boy had sense and knew just what to do when he got lost.b. often senses The normal ability to think or reason soundly: Have you taken leave of your senses?c. Something sound or reasonable: There's no sense in waiting three hours.5. a. A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification: The sense of the criticism is that the proposal has certain risks.b. One of the meanings of a word or phrase: The word set has many senses.6. a. Judgment; consensus: sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.b. Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group: I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.tr.v. sensed, sens·ing, sens·es 1. To become aware of; perceive: organisms able to sense their surroundings.2. To grasp; understand: sensed that the financial situation would improve.3. To detect automatically: sense radioactivity.adj. Genetics Of or relating to the portion of the strand of double-stranded DNA that serves as a template for and is transcribed into RNA.

[Middle English, meaning, from Old French sens, from Latin sēnsus, the faculty of perceiving, from past participle of sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]

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(sɛns) n1. (Physiology) any of the faculties by which the mind receives information about the external world or about the state of the body. In addition to the five traditional faculties of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, the term includes the means by which bodily position, temperature, pain, balance, etc, are perceived2. (Physiology) such faculties collectively; the ability to perceive3. (Physiology) a feeling perceived through one of the senses: a sense of warmth. 4. a mental perception or awareness: a sense of happiness. 5. moral discernment; understanding: a sense of right and wrong. 6. (sometimes plural) sound practical judgment or intelligence: he is a man without any sense. 7. reason or purpose: what is the sense of going out in the rain?. 8. substance or gist; meaning: what is the sense of this proverb?. 9. specific meaning; definition: in what sense are you using the word?. 10. an opinion or consensus11. (Mathematics) maths one of two opposite directions measured on a directed line; the sign as contrasted with the magnitude of a vector12. (Logic) logic linguistics a. the import of an expression as contrasted with its referent. Thus the morning star and the evening star have the same reference, Venus, but different sensesb. the property of an expression by virtue of which its referent is determinedc. that which one grasps in understanding an expression13. (Linguistics) logic linguistics a. the import of an expression as contrasted with its referent. Thus the morning star and the evening star have the same reference, Venus, but different sensesb. the property of an expression by virtue of which its referent is determinedc. that which one grasps in understanding an expression14. make sense to be reasonable or understandable15. take leave of one's senses See leave²⁸vb (tr) 16. (Physiology) to perceive through one or more of the senses17. to apprehend or detect without or in advance of the evidence of the senses18. to understand19. (Computer Science) computing a. to test or locate the position of (a part of computer hardware)b. to read (data)[C14: from Latin sēnsus, from sentīre to feel]

sense

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n., v. sensed, sens•ing. n. 1. 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. these faculties collectively. 3. their operation or function; sensation. 4. a feeling or perception produced through one of the senses: a sense of cold. 5. a faculty or function of the mind analogous to a physical sense: the moral sense. 6. any special capacity for perception, estimation, appreciation, etc.: a sense of humor. 7. Usu., senses. sanity: Have you taken leave of your senses? 8. a more or less vague perception or impression: a sense of security. 9. a mental discernment, realization, or recognition: a sense of value. 10. a motivating awareness: a sense of duty. 11. sound practical intelligence. 12. reasonable thought or discourse: to talk sense. 13. substance or gist; content: You missed the sense of his statement. 14. value; merit: There's no sense in worrying. 15. a DNA sequence that is capable of coding for an amino acid (disting. from nonsense). 16. the meaning of a word or phrase in a specific context, esp. as isolated in a dictionary or glossary. 17. consensus: the sense of a meeting. v.t. 18. to perceive by the senses; become aware of. 19. to grasp the meaning of; understand. 20. to detect (physical phenomena, as light or temperature) mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically. Idioms: 1. in a sense, to some extent; in a way: In a sense, the book was oddly gripping. 2. make sense, to be reasonable or comprehensible. [1350–1400; Middle English (n.) < Latin sēnsus sensation, feeling, understanding =sent(īre) to feel + -tus suffix of v. action] syn: See meaning.

Sense

rhyme or reason Sense, justification, explanation, cause, motivation; reasonableness, reason. The rhyme of the phrase remains as a superfluous alliterative element, providing added emphasis. Apparently it originally referred to amusement or entertainment, since works written in verse were considered aimed toward those ends; the reason of the phrase meant instruction or enlightenment, the supposed province of prose. Today the words usually appear in negative structures or contexts denoting their absence: without rhyme or reason, neither rhyme nor reason, what possible rhyme or reason? The expression was used in this sense of ‘reasonableness’ only as early as 1664 by Henry More:

Against all the laws of prophetic interpretation, nay indeed against all rhyme and reason. (Mystery of Iniquity)

An anecdote frequently recounted about Sir Thomas More, however, indicates that the phrase may have been in common parlance by the 15th century. A budding author, on requesting the learned man’s opinion of a work, was told to convert it to rhyme. Having done so, he submitted it to Sir Thomas’ judgment once again, upon which the scholarly wit devastatingly remarked, “That will do. ’Tis rhyme now, anyway, whereas before ’twas neither rhyme nor reason.”

sense

Past participle: sensed
Gerund: sensing

Imperative
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sense

Present
I sense
you sense
he/she/it senses
we sense
you sense
they sense

Preterite
I sensed
you sensed
he/she/it sensed
we sensed
you sensed
they sensed

Present Continuous
I am sensing
you are sensing
he/she/it is sensing
we are sensing
you are sensing
they are sensing

Present Perfect
I have sensed
you have sensed
he/she/it has sensed
we have sensed
you have sensed
they have sensed

Past Continuous
I was sensing
you were sensing
he/she/it was sensing
we were sensing
you were sensing
they were sensing

Past Perfect
I had sensed
you had sensed
he/she/it had sensed
we had sensed
you had sensed
they had sensed

Future
I will sense
you will sense
he/she/it will sense
we will sense
you will sense
they will sense

Future Perfect
I will have sensed
you will have sensed
he/she/it will have sensed
we will have sensed
you will have sensed
they will have sensed

Future Continuous
I will be sensing
you will be sensing
he/she/it will be sensing
we will be sensing
you will be sensing
they will be sensing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been sensing
you have been sensing
he/she/it has been sensing
we have been sensing
you have been sensing
they have been sensing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been sensing
you will have been sensing
he/she/it will have been sensing
we will have been sensing
you will have been sensing
they will have been sensing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been sensing
you had been sensing
he/she/it had been sensing
we had been sensing
you had been sensing
they had been sensing

Conditional
I would sense
you would sense
he/she/it would sense
we would sense
you would sense
they would sense

Past Conditional
I would have sensed
you would have sensed
he/she/it would have sensed
we would have sensed
you would have sensed
they would have sensed

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sense - a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self"awareness, cognisance, cognizance, knowingness, consciousness - having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive"sense of direction - an awareness of your orientation in spacesense of responsibility - an awareness of your obligations
	2.	sense - 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"signifiedmeaning, signification, import, significance - the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous"word meaning, word sense, acceptation - the accepted meaning of a word
	3.	sense - 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"sensory faculty, sentiency, sentience, sensationfaculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mindsense modality, sensory system, modality - a particular sensesensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"
	4.	sense - 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"common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother witsagaciousness, sagacity, discernment, judgement, judgment - the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relationslogic - reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"nous - common sense; "she has great social nous"road sense - good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road
	5.	sense - a natural appreciation or ability; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing"appreciation, grasp, hold - understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices"
Verb	1.	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"feelperceive, comprehend - to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon"feel - be felt or perceived in a certain way; "The ground feels shaky"; "The sheets feel soft"
	2.	sense - detect some circumstance or entity automatically; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization"detect, discover, notice, observe, find - discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
	3.	sense - become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption"smell out, smellperceive - become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest"
	4.	sense - comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter"understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"

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noun1. faculty, perception, sensation, feeling, sensibility a keen sense of smell2. feeling, impression, perception, awareness, consciousness, atmosphere, aura, intuition, premonition, presentiment There is no sense of urgency on either side.3. understanding, awareness, appreciation, comprehension, discernment He has an impeccable sense of timing.4. (sometimes plural) intelligence, reason, understanding, brains (informal), smarts (slang, chiefly U.S.), judgment, discrimination, wisdom, wit(s), common sense, sanity, sharpness, tact, nous (Brit. slang), cleverness, quickness, discernment, gumption (Brit. informal), sagacity, clear-headedness, mother wit When he was younger he had a bit more sense.
intelligence stupidity, foolishness, silliness, idiocy, folly5. point, good, use, reason, value, benefit, worth, advantage, purpose, logic There's no sense in pretending this doesn't happen.6. meaning, definition, interpretation, significance, message, import, substance, implication, drift, purport, nuance, gist, signification, denotation a noun which has two sensesverb1. perceive, feel, understand, notice, pick up, suspect, realize, observe, appreciate, grasp, be aware of, divine, discern, just know, have a (funny) feeling (informal), get the impression, apprehend, have a hunch He had sensed what might happen.
perceive miss, overlook, misunderstand, be unaware of, fail to grasp or noticecome to your senses realize, understand, wake up, catch on (informal), become aware Then she came to her senses. She had almost betrayed herself.make sense be clear, be understood, come together, have meaning It all makes sense now.make sense of understand, appreciate, comprehend, get to the bottom of, get your head round This is to help her make sense of past experiences.

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noun1. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus:feeling, sensation, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment.2. The condition of being aware:awareness, cognizance, consciousness, perception.3. The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge:brain (often used in plural), brainpower, intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind, understanding, wit.Slang: smart (used in plural).4. The ability to make sensible decisions:common sense, judgment, wisdom.Informal: gumption, horse sense.5. A healthy mental state.Often used in plural:lucidity, lucidness, mind, reason, saneness, sanity, soundness, wit (used in plural).Slang: marble (used in plural).6. What is sound or reasonable:logic, rationale, rationality, rationalness, reason.Idiom: rhyme or reason.7. That which is signified by a word or expression:acceptation, connotation, denotation, import, intent, meaning, message, purport, significance, significancy, signification, value.verb1. To be intuitively aware of:apprehend, feel, intuit, perceive.Idioms: feel in one's bones, get vibrations.2. To view in a certain way:believe, feel, hold, think.3. To perceive and recognize the meaning of:accept, apprehend, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, read, see, take, take in, understand.Informal: savvy.Slang: dig.Chiefly British: twig.Scots: ken.Idioms: get a handle on, get the picture.

Translations

感觉感觉能力明眼人理解觉察

sense

(sens) noun1. one of the five powers (hearing, taste, sight, smell, touch) by which a person or animal feels or notices. 感官2. a feeling. He has an exaggerated sense of his own importance.感觉3. an awareness of (something). a well-developed musical sense; She has no sense of humour. 意识，感觉能力 4. good judgement. You can rely on him – he has plenty of sense.辨别力5. a meaning (of a word). 意义，含义 6. something which is meaningful. Can you make sense of her letter? 理解，弄懂 verb to feel, become aware of, or realize. He sensed that she disapproved.觉察ˈsenseless adjective1. stunned or unconscious. The blow knocked him senseless.无知觉的2. foolish. What a senseless thing to do!愚蠢的ˈsenselessly adverb 无知觉地，愚蠢地 ˈsenselessness noun 无知觉，愚蠢 ˈsenses noun plural (usually with my, ~his, ~her etc) a person's normal, sane state of mind. He must have taken leave of his senses; When he came to his senses, he was lying in a hospital bed.理智sixth sense an ability to feel or realize something apparently not by means of any of the five senses. He couldn't hear or see anyone, but a sixth sense told him that he was being followed. 第六感，直觉

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[sens] 1. a faculty by which the conditions or properties of things are perceived. Five major senses were traditionally considered: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. In addition, equilibrium, hunger, thirst, malaise, pain, and other types of senses have been distinguished. The operation of all senses involves the reception of stimuli by sense organs, each of which is sensitive to a particular kind of stimulus. The eyes are sensitive to light; the ears, to sound; the olfactory organs, to odor; and the taste buds, to taste. Various sense organs of the skin and other tissues are sensitive to touch, pain, temperature, and other sensations. On receiving stimuli, the sense organ translates them into nerve impulses that are transmitted along the sensory nerves to the brain. In the cerebral cortex, the impulses are interpreted, or perceived, as sensations. The brain associates them with other information, acts upon them, and stores them as memory. See also nervous system and brain.2. pertaining to the strand" >sense strand of a nucleic acid.sense of equilibrium the sense of maintenance of or divergence from an upright position, controlled by receptors in the vestibule of the ear.kinesthetic sense muscle sense.light sense the faculty by which degrees of brilliancy are distinguished.muscle sense (muscular sense) the faculty by which muscular movements are perceived.pain sense nociception.position sense (posture sense) a variety of muscular sense by which the position or attitude of the body or its parts is perceived.pressure sense the faculty by which pressure upon the surface of the body is perceived.sixth sense the general feeling of consciousness of the entire body; cenesthesia.somatic s's senses other than the senses" >special senses; these include touch, kinesthesia, nociception, sense" >pressure sense, sense" >temperature sense, and sense" >muscle sense, among others.space sense the faculty by which relative positions and relations of objects in space are perceived.special s's the senses of vision, hearing, taste, and smell; equilibrium is sometimes considered a special sense, but touch usually is not. See also somatic senses.stereognostic sense the sense by which form and solidity are perceived.temperature sense the ability to recognize differences in temperature; called also thermesthesia.

sense

(sens), The faculty of perceiving any stimulus. [L. sentio, pp. sensus, to feel, to perceive]

sense

(sĕns)n.a. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.b. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation: a sense of fatigue and hunger.tr.v. sensed, sensing, senses 1. To become aware of; perceive: organisms able to sense their surroundings.2. To detect automatically: sense radioactivity.adj. Genetics Of or relating to the portion of the strand of double-stranded DNA that serves as a template for and is transcribed into RNA.

Sense

The National Deafblind and Rubella Association. The leading national (UK) charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind, providing expert advice and information as well as specialist services to deafblind people, their families, carers and the professionals who work with them. Sense also supports people with sensory impairments and additional disabilities.

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Neurology The ability to perceive a stimulus. See Haptic sense.

sense

(sens) The faculty of perceiving any stimulus. [L. sentio, pp. sensus, to feel, to perceive]

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Any faculty (or ability) by which some aspect of the environment is perceived. The five main senses are those of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. The sense of sight may be further divided into the colour sense, the form sense, the light sense, the space sense, etc.

sense

(sens) Faculty of perceiving any stimulus. [L. sentio, pp. sensus, to feel, to perceive]

Patient discussion about sense

Q. I heard that patients are highly sensitive to their senses? what are the most common symptoms of fibromyalgia and can they be aggravated? I heard that patients are highly sensitive to their senses?A. Great answeer...couldn't agree more!

Q. I am getting a sense of fear that I am getting addicted to alcohol. hi my friends……I am getting a sense of fear that I am getting addicted to alcohol; I am not sure of it as I drink casually in parties and I feel like having it again alone….I don’t always get the feel of satisfaction. Moreover if there is no party I keep a party and once with the party I drink again alone…it’s just making my head turn to alcohol after party. ..it has negative results in me as I have problem in getting my job done and I have lost huge money….please guide me…..I don’t want to go to doctor as I may lose my job if my office knows about it…A. Though alcohol can be consumed in a social life, as the proverb says ‘too much of anything is good for nothing’ more than adequate consumption of alcohol will amount to health issue which is a concern for anyone. A will is an instrument to change the direction of the flow you desire. I guess these are thoughts you require now. May be you are towards alcoholism, but a diagnosis test in the form of questionnaire hints on the persons will to accept and leave the alcohol. You have shown will to accept that you may be an alcoholic but leaving is the part of treatment and must be guided. For that please make your will strong to leave or reduce the consumption of alcohol to have a happy life ?

Q. I have a very acute sense of smell. Most things that have a smell cause me to have Migraines every day. I have heard that a chiropractor is who I need to treat me for this problem. Anyone else here have this problem? What have you done and were you able to treat it?A. I can't remember where I heard about the chiropractor's involvement but it is really unpleasant. I tend to make life unpleasant for others to, just not to have a migraine. Things like cooking popcorn, perfumes, trash and many other things will give me a migraine (not a headache) right away. It may be called Hyperosmia (abnormal sense of smell).

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noun the capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus

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noun the condition of being aware

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noun the faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge

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noun the ability to make sensible decisions

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noun a healthy mental state

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noun what is sound or reasonable

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noun that which is signified by a word or expression

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verb to be intuitively aware of

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verb to view in a certain way

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verb to perceive and recognize the meaning of

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noun a general conscious awareness

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noun the meaning of a word or expression