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- Dictionarysense/sɛns/
noun
- 1. a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch: "the bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk" Similar
- 2. a feeling that something is the case: "she had the sense of being a political outsider" Similar
verb
- 1. perceive by a sense or senses: "with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days"
- 2. (of a machine or similar device) detect: "an optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor"
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an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel: With her excellent sense of smell, she could tell if you were a smoker from the other side of the room. My cold is so bad I've lost my sense of smell / taste (= I can't smell / taste anything).
The meaning of SENSE is a meaning conveyed or intended : import, signification; especially : one of a set of meanings a word or phrase may bear especially as segregated in a dictionary entry. How to use sense in a sentence.
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 ...
A sense is an awareness or recognition of something; the stimulus may be subjective and the entire process may be mental or intellectual: a sense of failure. A sensation is an impression derived from an objective (external) stimulus through any of the sense organs: a sensation of heat.
[uncountable] good understanding and judgement; knowledge of what is sensible or practical behaviour. You should have the sense to take advice when it is offered. There's no sense in (= it is not sensible) worrying about it now. Can't you talk sense (= say something sensible)? There's a lot of sense in what Mary says.
A sense is an awareness or recognition of something; the stimulus may be subjective and the entire process may be mental or intellectual: a sense of failure. A sensation is an impression derived from an objective (external) stimulus through any of the sense organs: a sensation of heat.
the ability to understand funny things and to be funny yourself. a sense of loyalty/responsibility/security, etc. the quality or feeling of being loyal, responsible, safe, etc: He has absolutely no sense of loyalty. Driving along in a comfortable car can give you a false sense of security.
