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Sense
sɛn(t)s
- 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"
- a feeling that something is the case
"she had the sense of being a political outsider"
- a keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something
"she had a fine sense of comic timing"
- a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems
"he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings"
- a reasonable or comprehensible rationale
"I can't see the sense in leaving all the work to you"
- 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"
- 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"
- relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence
- perceive by a sense or senses
"with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days"
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- be aware of (something) without being able to define exactly how one knows
"she could sense her father's anger rising"
- (of a machine or similar device) detect
"an optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor"