sense meaning
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[sɛn(t)s] 
US WSense
- A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception. Humans have a multitude of senses. Other animals also have receptors to sense the world around them,
- NounPLsenses
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- a sense of security
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- You don’t make any sense.
- the true sense of words or phrases
- 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.
- (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.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- VerbSGsensesPRsensingPT, PPsensed
- To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
- To instinctively be aware.
- She immediately sensed her disdain.
- To comprehend.
- To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In his bones, he sensed winter was drawing on sooner than usual.
- But do pray recover your senses time enough to see me married—so run and dress yourself, make yourself gay; fly Simon and Adonize your master.
- [ …] and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness of motion.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Television shows these days do not always toe the line of decency and common sense.
- After I spent a couple of hours picking his brain, his scheme started to make sense.
- So you put up with constant giggling, pisstaking remarks, and loads of random words that never made sense.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Meaning of sense for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "sense" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- Nouns
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