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The definition of sense
18 Definitions of: sense
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- noun, any of the faculties by which the mind receives information about the external world or about the state of the body. In addition to the five traditional faculties of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, the term includes the means by which bodily position, temperature, pain, balance, etc, are perceived
- noun, such faculties collectively; the ability to perceive
- noun, a feeling perceived through one of the senses
- noun, a mental perception or awareness
- noun, moral discernment; understanding
- noun, sound practical judgment or intelligence
- noun, reason or purpose
- noun, substance or gist; meaning
- noun, specific meaning; definition
- noun, an opinion or consensus
- noun, maths one of two opposite directions measured on a directed line; the sign as contrasted with the magnitude of a vector
- noun, make sense to be reasonable or understandable
- noun, logic linguistics a) the import of an expression as contrasted with its referent. Thus the morning star and the evening star have the same reference, Venus, but different senses b) the property of an expression by virtue of which its referent is determined c) that which one grasps in understanding an expression
- noun, take leave of one's senses. See leave
- verb, to perceive through one or more of the senses
- verb, to apprehend or detect without or in advance of the evidence of the senses
- verb, to understand
- verb, computing a) to test or locate the position of (a part of computer hardware) b) to read (data)
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| Synonyms: | interpretation, reason, use, definition, message, intelligence, wisdom, gumption (Brit. informal), faculty, sensibility | And more... |
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| Antonyms: | foolish |
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