Sense definition
Sensed that the financial situation would improve.
A sense of humor, honor, etc.
A sense of direction, pitch, etc.
Have you taken leave of your senses?
Organisms able to sense their surroundings.
Tasting, touching, seeing and hearing are all examples of a sense.
If you have a feeling that danger is lurking, this is an example of a sense of danger.
Organisms able to sense their surroundings.
If you believe that someone is angry even if they haven't said so, this is an example of when you can sense their anger.
A sense of fatigue and hunger.
A sense of diplomatic timing.
A keen sense of humor.
A sense of impending doom.
Has no sense of shame.
The boy had sense and knew just what to do when he got lost.
There's no sense in waiting three hours.
The sense of the criticism is that the proposal has certain risks.
The word set has many senses.
Sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.
I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.
A sense of warmth, pain, etc.
A sense of longing.
Some sense in what he says.
To talk sense.
To come to one's senses.
To grasp the sense of a remark.
To sense another's hostility.
A sense of fatigue and hunger.
Sense radioactivity.
- L'Estrange.Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
Sense radioactivity.
- to a limited extent or degree
- in one aspect
- to be intelligible or logical
- to find meaning in; understand
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of sense
- Middle English meaning from Old French sens from Latin sēnsus the faculty of perceiving from past participle of sentīre to feel sent- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction"); partly from Latin sensus (“sensation, feeling, meaning"), from sentiō (“feel, perceive"); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Old Frankish *sinn (“reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"), from Proto-Germanic *sinnaz (“mind, meaning"). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel"). Compare French assener (“to thrust out"), forcené (“maniac"). More at send.
From Wiktionary