sense
IPA: sˈɛns
noun
- 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.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- (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.
verb
- To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
- To instinctively be aware.
- To comprehend.
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Examples of "sense" in Sentences
- If we had a sixth sense, what a _new sense_ it would be!
- By Father Nicholai Velimirovic, Ph.D. "Nature _takes sufficient care of our individualistic sense, leaving to_ Education _the care of our panhumanistic sense_."
- The sense-strand-specific (sense) primer, from +243 to +223; antisense-strand-specific (AS), from − 16 to +5; sense*, from +415 to +395; and AS*, from − 68 to − 48.
- Good sense is so far from deserving the appellation of _common sense_, by which it is frequently called, that it is perhaps one of the rarest qualities of the human mind.
- Its _logical_ structure is very different, however, from that of sense: _sense_ gives acquaintance with particulars, and is thus a two-term relation in which the object can be _named_ but not
- Creator has given to his creatures, have cultivated only one, the sense of touch, -- leaving out entirely that chief sense, which connects and confirms all others, -- _the sense of the invisible_, the _moral sense_.
- The sense of Melody and Tune lies behind the brow in connection with the _sense of hearing_, at the anterior portion of Sensibility, which forty years after my discovery is beginning to be recognized in consequence of the experiments of
- The boxes below the bar indicate the positions of the strand-specific primers used for the detection of dsRNA: the blank boxes are sense-strand-specific primers (sense, +243 to +223, and sense*, +415 to +395), and the black ones are primers for the AS strand (AS, − 16 to +5, and AS*, − 68 to − 48).
- That the words [sic] mass is used in its appropriate specific sense in this Article, and not as synonymous with Lord's Supper, or eucharist, as the Plea for the Augsburg Confession [Note 33] asserts, is proved by the fact, that _if you substitute either of these words for it, many passages in the Article will not make sense_.
- In the latter sense, it imports much more than this; it is not merely a _sense_ of doubt respecting any one truth, but a _system_ of doubt in regard to the grounds of our belief in all truth, a subtle philosophy which seeks to explain the phenomena of Belief by resolving them into their ultimate principles, and which often terminates -- in explaining them away.
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