The meaning of Senses
Senses – definition
nounA faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
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The bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusknounA feeling that something is the case.
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She had the sense of being a political outsidernounA sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
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He earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetingsnounA way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
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It is not clear which sense of the word ‘characters’ is intended in this passagenounA 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.
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The cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite sense
verbPerceive by a sense or senses.
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With the first frost, they could sense a change in the daysverb(of a machine or similar device) detect.
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An optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor
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Word origin
late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘meaning’): from Latin sensus ‘faculty of feeling, thought, meaning’, from sentire ‘feel’. The verb dates from the mid 16th century.
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