sense
sense/sens/
noun
- 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 that enables it to hunt at dusk"synonyms: sensory faculty, feeling, sensation, perception, sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, sixth sense, sensibility
- a feeling that something is the case."she had the sense of being a political outsider"synonyms: awareness, feeling, sensation, consciousness, perception, recognition
- a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems."he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings"synonyms: wisdom, common sense, good sense, practicality, sagacity, sharpness, discernment, perception, native wit, mother wit, wit, level-headedness, intelligence, cleverness, astuteness, shrewdness, judgment, soundness of judgment, understanding, reason, logic, brain, brains, gumption, nous, horse sense, savvy, loaf, common, smarts
- a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning."it is not clear which sense of the word “characters” is intended in this passage"synonyms: meaning, definition, import, denotation, signification, significance, purport, implication, intention, nuance, drift, gist, thrust, tenor, burden, theme, message, essence, spirit, substance
- a property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other."the cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite sense"
verb
- perceive by a sense or senses."with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days"synonyms: discern, feel, observe, notice, get the impression of, recognize, pick up, be/become cognizant of, be/become aware of, be/become conscious of, get/come to know, tell, distinguish, make out, find, identify, comprehend, apprehend, see, discover, learn, appreciate, realize, suspect, have a funny feeling, have a hunch, just know, divine, intuit, conceive, catch onto, twig, cognize
- (of a machine or similar device) detect."an optical fiber senses a current flowing in a conductor"
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