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sense

sɛns

Meanings

noun

a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
E.g. the bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk
a feeling that something is the case.
E.g. she had the sense of being a political outsider
a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
E.g. he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings
a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
E.g. it is not clear which sense of the word ‘characters’ is intended in this passage
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.
E.g. the cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite sense

verb

perceive by a sense or senses.
E.g. with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days
(of a machine or similar device) detect.
E.g. an optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor

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