sense

sostantivo

1. 1

   Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.

   Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.

   What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.

   Sight, hearing, and touch have been well explored, but the sense of smell has remained elusive, due in large measure to a lack of basic information.

2. 2

   Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

   a sense of security

   this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover

   high disdain from sense of injured merit

   The days have vanish’d, tone and tint, ⁠And yet perhaps the hoarding sense ⁠Gives out at times (he knows not whence) A little flash, a mystic hint; […]

3. 3

   Sound practical or moral judgment.

   It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.

   some People so Harden'd in Wickedness, as to have No Sense at all of the most Friendly Offices, or the Highest Benefits.

4. 4

   The meaning, reason, or value of something.

   You don’t make any sense.

   That just don't make a licka sense to me.

   I think ’twas in another sense.

5. 5

   The meaning, reason, or value of something. A meaning of a term (word or expression), among its various meanings.

   the various senses of the word “car” (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)

   In this sense it was possible to speak of 'scientific' of 'Marxist' ideology, which Marx and Engels, given their use of the term, could never have done.

6. 6

   The meaning, reason, or value of something. A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.

7. 7

   A natural appreciation or ability.

   A keen musical sense

8. 8

   The way that a referent is presented.

9. 9

   One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.

10. 10

    One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.

11. 11

    referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

verbo

1. 1

   To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.

2. 2

   To instinctively be aware.

   She immediately sensed her disdain.

3. 3

   To comprehend.

Forme

plurale

senses

passato

sensed

participio passato

sensed

participio presente

sensing

3ª persona singolare

senses