| 单词 | sense |
| 释义 | sense (once / 17 pages) nv When you sense something, you know it intuitively, like when you can tell your mother is angry not by her words but by the tone of her voice. Sense has many shades of meaning, all involving understanding or becoming aware of something. You can use sense to describe something perceived with your senses, like when you sense your dog is near because of the smell. Sense also refers to the unconscious process of figuring something out, like when you sense that someone is cheating at cards. If you have common sense you don't do foolish things. The sense of a word is how it's used. WORD FAMILYsense: nonsense, sensation, sensed, senseless, senses, sensible, sensing, sensitive, sensor, sensorial, sensuous+/desensitise: desensitisation, desensitising/desensitize: desensitization, desensitized, desensitizes, desensitizing/hypersensitive: hypersensitively, hypersensitivity/insensibility: insensibilities/insensible: insensibility, insensibly/insensitive: insensitively, insensitiveness, insensitivity/insensitivity: insensitivities/nonsense: nonsenses, nonsensical/nonsensical: nonsensicalest, nonsensicality, nonsensically/oversensitive: oversensitively, oversensitiveness/sensation: aftersensation, sensational, sensations/sensational: sensationalism, sensationally, unsensational/sensationalism: sensationalisms, sensationalist, sensationalistic/sensationalist: sensationalists/senseless: senselessly, senselessness/sensibility: sensibilities/sensible: insensible, sensibilise, sensibility, sensibilize, sensibleness, sensibler, sensiblest, sensibly/sensitise: desensitise, sensitisation, sensitised, sensitiser, sensitising/sensitised: hypersensitised, supersensitised/sensitiser: sensitisers/sensitive: hypersensitive, insensitive, nonsensitive, oversensitive, sensitise, sensitively, sensitiveness, sensitives, sensitivity, sensitize, supersensitive/sensitiveness: sensitivenesses/sensitivity: sensitivities/sensitize: desensitize, sensitization, sensitized, sensitizer, sensitizes, sensitizing/sensitized: hypersensitized, supersensitized/sensitizer: sensitizers/sensor: sensors/sensorial: sensorially/sensuous: sensuously, sensuousness/supersensitive: supersensitively/unsensational: unsensationally USAGE EXAMPLESOthers conclude that this sense of homelessness is rooted in human nature but corresponds to nothing real in the world. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) He said that he was motivated by a sense of instability because of the threat of terrorism and the conflict in Ukraine. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Dahlin says the final stages of his three-week stint in a secret jail were among the hardest, even though he sensed his release was imminent. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper sensation, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency modality, sense modality, sensory system a particular sense sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation acutenessa sensitivity that is keen and highly developed hypersensitivityextreme sensitivity reactivity, responsivenessresponsive to stimulation exteroceptionsensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body interoceptionsensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body photosensitivity, radiosensitivitysensitivity to the action of radiant energy sight, vision, visual modality, visual sensethe ability to see; the visual faculty somatosenseany of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearingthe ability to hear; the auditory faculty gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, tastethe faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smellthe faculty that enables us to distinguish scents faculty, mental faculty, module one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind 2n a general conscious awareness a sense of security a sense of happiness a sense of danger a sense of self Hypo|Hyper sense of direction an awareness of your orientation in space sense of responsibilityan awareness of your obligations awareness, cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness having knowledge of 3n a natural appreciation or ability a keen musical sense a good sense of timing Hyper appreciation, grasp, hold understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something 4n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper signified acceptation, word meaning, word sense the accepted meaning of a word import, meaning, significance, signification the message that is intended or expressed or signified 5n sound practical judgment he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples Syn|Hypo|Hyper common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit logic reasoned and reasonable judgment nouscommon sense road sensegood judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road discernment, judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations 6v perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles Syn|Hyper feel feel be felt or perceived in a certain way comprehend, perceive to become aware of through the senses 7v become aware of not through the senses but instinctively I sense his hostility Syn|Hyper smell, smell out perceive become conscious of 8v detect some circumstance or entity automatically This robot can sense the presence of people in the room particle detectors sense ionization Hyper detect, discover, find, notice, observe discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of 9v comprehend I sensed the real meaning of his letter Hyper understand know and comprehend the nature or meaning of |
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