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Word: sense (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A general conscious awareness.
  • A natural appreciation or ability
  • mathematics One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
  • mathematics One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
  • pragmatics The way that a referent is presented.
  • semantics A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
  • One of the methods for a living being to gather data about the world; sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
  • Sound practical judgment, as in common sense
  • The meaning, reason, or value of something.

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Verb:

  • To comprehend.
  • To instinctively be aware.
  • To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.

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