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sense

  [sens] noun, verb, sensed, sens⋅ing.
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–noun
1. any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.
2. these faculties collectively.
3. their operation or function; sensation.
4. a feeling or perception produced through the organs of touch, taste, etc., or resulting from a particular condition of some part of the body: to have a sense of cold.
5. a faculty or function of the mind analogous to sensation: the moral sense.
6. any special capacity for perception, estimation, appreciation, etc.: a sense of humor.
7. Usually, senses. clear and sound mental faculties; sanity: Have you taken leave of your senses?
8. a more or less vague perception or impression: a sense of security.
9. a mental discernment, realization, or recognition; acuteness: a just sense of the worth of a thing.
10. the recognition of something as incumbent or fitting: a sense of duty.
11. sound practical intelligence: He has no sense.
12. something that is sensible or reasonable: to talk sense.
13. the meaning or gist of something: You missed the sense of his statement.
14. the value or worth of something; merit: There's no sense in worrying about the past.
15. the meaning of a word or phrase in a specific context, esp. as isolated in a dictionary or glossary; the semantic element in a word or group of words.
16. an opinion or judgment formed or held, esp. by an assemblage or body of persons: the sense of a meeting.
17. Genetics. a DNA sequence that is capable of coding for an amino acid (distinguished from nonsense ).
18. Mathematics. one of two opposite directions in which a vector may point.
–verb (used with object)
19. to perceive (something) by the senses; become aware of.
20. to grasp the meaning of; understand.
21. (of certain mechanical devices) to detect physical phenomena, as light, temperature, radioactivity, etc., mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
22. Computers. to read (punched holes, tape, data, etc.) mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
—Idioms
23. come to one's senses, to regain one's good judgment or realistic point of view; become reasonable.
24. in a sense, according to one explanation or view; to a certain extent: In a sense it may have been the only possible solution.
25. make sense, to be reasonable or comprehensible: His attitude doesn't make sense.
Origin:
1350–1400; (n.) ME < L sēnsus sensation, feeling, understanding, equiv. to sent(īre) to feel + -tus suffix of v. action, with tt > s; (v.) deriv. of the n.

Synonyms:
4. Sense, sensation refer to consciousness of stimulus or of a perception as pleasant or unpleasant. A sense is an awareness or recognition of something; the stimulus may be subjective and the entire process may be mental or intellectual: a sense of failure. A sensation is an impression derived from an objective (external) stimulus through any of the sense organs: a sensation of heat. It is also a general, indefinite physical or emotional feeling: a sensation of weariness. 5. awareness, apprehension. 7. rationality. 9. estimation, appreciation. 13. signification, import, denotation, connotation, interpretation. See meaning. 16. feeling, sentiment. 19. discern, appreciate, recognize.
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sense   (sěns)   
n.  

    1. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.

    2. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation: a sense of fatigue and hunger.

    3. An intuitive or acquired perception or ability to estimate: a sense of diplomatic timing.

    4. A capacity to appreciate or understand: a keen sense of humor.

    5. A vague feeling or presentiment: a sense of impending doom.

    6. Recognition or perception either through the senses or through the intellect; consciousness: has no sense of shame.

    7. Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters: The boy had sense and knew just what to do when he got lost.

    8. The normal ability to think or reason soundly. Often used in the plural: Have you taken leave of your senses?

    9. Something sound or reasonable: There's no sense in waiting three hours.

    10. A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification: The sense of the novel is the inevitability of human tragedy.

    11. One of the meanings of a word or phrase: The word set has many senses. See Synonyms at meaning.

    12. Judgment; consensus: sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.

    13. Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group: I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.

  2. senses The faculties of sensation as means of providing physical gratification and pleasure.

    1. An intuitive or acquired perception or ability to estimate: a sense of diplomatic timing.

    2. A capacity to appreciate or understand: a keen sense of humor.

    3. A vague feeling or presentiment: a sense of impending doom.

    4. Recognition or perception either through the senses or through the intellect; consciousness: has no sense of shame.

    5. Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters: The boy had sense and knew just what to do when he got lost.

    6. The normal ability to think or reason soundly. Often used in the plural: Have you taken leave of your senses?

    7. Something sound or reasonable: There's no sense in waiting three hours.

    8. A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification: The sense of the novel is the inevitability of human tragedy.

    9. One of the meanings of a word or phrase: The word set has many senses. See Synonyms at meaning.

    10. Judgment; consensus: sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.

    11. Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group: I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.

    1. Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters: The boy had sense and knew just what to do when he got lost.

    2. The normal ability to think or reason soundly. Often used in the plural: Have you taken leave of your senses?

    3. Something sound or reasonable: There's no sense in waiting three hours.

    4. A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification: The sense of the novel is the inevitability of human tragedy.

    5. One of the meanings of a word or phrase: The word set has many senses. See Synonyms at meaning.

    6. Judgment; consensus: sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.

    7. Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group: I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.

    1. A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification: The sense of the novel is the inevitability of human tragedy.

    2. One of the meanings of a word or phrase: The word set has many senses. See Synonyms at meaning.

    3. Judgment; consensus: sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.

    4. Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group: I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.

    1. Judgment; consensus: sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.

    2. Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group: I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.

tr.v.   sensed, sens·ing, sens·es

  1. To become aware of; perceive.

  2. To grasp; understand.

  3. To detect automatically: sense radioactivity.

adj.  Genetics Of or relating to the portion of the strand of double-stranded DNA that serves as a template for and is transcribed into RNA.

[Middle English, meaning, from Old French sens, from Latin sēnsus, the faculty of perceiving, from past participle of sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]
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Slang Dictionary
sinse [sɪnts] and [ˈsɛnts (bəd)]

and sense (bud)
  1. n.
    seedless marijuana. (Drugs. From Spanish sinsemilla, “seedless.”) : Where's the sinse I was saving? , Tom only gets high on sense bud.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

sense  (n.)
c.1400, "faculty of perception," also "meaning or interpretation" (esp. of Holy Scripture), from O.Fr. sens, from L. sensus "perception, feeling, undertaking, meaning," from sentire "perceive, feel, know," prob. a fig. use of a lit. meaning "to find one's way," from PIE base *sent- "to go" (cf. O.H.G. sinnan "to go, travel, strive after, have in mind, perceive," Ger. Sinn "sense, mind," O.E. sið "way, journey," O.Ir. set, Welsh hynt "way"). Application to any one of the external or outward senses (touch, sight, hearing, etc.) first recorded 1526.
"Hornkostel cites a Negro tribe that has a separate word for seeing, but employs a common term for hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching." [A.G. Engstrom, "Philological Quarterly," XXV, 1946]
The verb meaning "to perceive by the senses" is recorded from 1598. Senses "mental faculties, sanity" is attested from 1568.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2sense
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: sensed; sens·ing
: to perceive by the senses
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

sense (sěns)
n.

  1. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.

  2. A perception or feeling that is produced by a stimulus; sensation, as of hunger.

v. sensed, sens·ing, sens·es
To become aware of; perceive.

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