sense /sens/

1. Faculty of receiving sensation, general or particular
2. Subjective consciousness
3. Inward feeling
4. Impression
5. Opinion
6. Mental attitude
7. Discernment
8. Understanding
9. Appreciation
10. Feeling for what is appropriate
11. Discerning feeling for things of some particular kind
12. (usu in pl) one's wits or reason
13. Soundness of judgement
14. Reasonableness
15. Sensible or reasonable discourse
16. That which is reasonable
17. Plain matter of fact
18. The realm of sensation and sensual appetite
19. A sense-organ (Shakespeare)
20. A meaning, esp any of a range of meanings that a word or phrase may convey
21. Interpretation
22. Purport
23. Gist
24. Direction (esp in geometry, after Fr sens)

Relating to a sense or senses

1. To have a sensation, feeling, or appreciation of
2. To appreciate, grasp, comprehend
3. To become aware (that)
4. (of computers) to detect (eg a hole, constituting a symbol, in punched card or tape)

sensed adjective

Having meaning of a specified kind, etc

senseˈful adjective

1. Significant
2. Full of good sense

senseˈless adjective

1. Unconscious
2. Without good sense
3. Meaningless

senseˈlessly adverb

senseˈlessness noun

senˈsing noun and adjective

senˈsism noun (philosophy)

Sensationalism

senˈsist noun

sense datum noun

What is received immediately through the stimulation of a sense organ (also called sensum /senˈsəm/; pl senˈsa)

sense organ noun

A structure specially adapted for the reception of stimuli, such as eye, ear and nose

sense perception noun

Perception by the senses

bring someone to his or her senses

1. To make someone recognize the facts
2. To let someone understand that his or her behaviour must be mended

come to one's senses

1. To regain consciousness
2. To start behaving sensibly (again)

common sense see under common

five senses

The senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch

in a sense

1. In a sense other than the obvious one
2. In a way
3. After a fashion

in or out of one's (right) senses

In or out of one's normal rational condition

make sense

To be understandable, sensible or rational

make sense of

1. To understand
2. To see the purpose in, or explanation of

sixth sense

An ability to perceive what lies beyond the powers of the five senses

take leave of one's senses

To go mad, start behaving unreasonably or irrationally

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• plea bargaining
• plea-bargaining
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• pleached
• pleaches
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• plead
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• pleaded
• pleader
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• plead guilty
• pleading
• pleading diet
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• plead the Fifth
• pleaed
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