sense
意义,感觉,感官,意识
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Definitions
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- : 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: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
- : these faculties collectively.
- : their operation or function; sensation.
- : 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.
- : a faculty or function of the mind analogous to sensation: the moral sense.
- : any special capacity for perception, estimation, appreciation, etc.: a sense of humor.
- : Usually senses . clear and sound mental faculties; sanity: Have you taken leave of your senses?
- : a more or less vague perception or impression: a sense of security.
- : a mental discernment, realization, or recognition; acuteness: a just sense of the worth of a thing.
- : the recognition of something as incumbent or fitting: a sense of duty.
- : sound practical intelligence: He has no sense.
- : something that is sensible or reasonable: Try to talk sense instead of shouting.
- : the meaning or gist of something: You missed the sense of his statement.
- : the value or worth of something; merit: There's no sense in worrying about the past.
- : the meaning of a word or phrase in a specific context, especially as isolated in a dictionary or glossary; the semantic element in a word or group of words.
- : an opinion or judgment formed or held, especially by an assemblage or body of persons: the sense of a meeting.
- : Genetics. a DNA sequence that is capable of coding for an amino acid.
- : Mathematics. one of two opposite directions in which a vector may point.
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sensed, sens·ing.
- : to perceive by the senses; become aware of.
- : to grasp the meaning of; understand.
- : to detect physical phenomena, as light, temperature, radioactivity, etc., mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
- : Computers. to read mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
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Examples
In the absence of any competitions on the horizon, I just didn’t see how it made any sense to practice.
While I call these outlooks “depressed,” I mean it only in an economic sense.
Mixing flashy sexual parts and super-simple other parts makes sense for the plant kingdom’s extreme parasites.
This makes sense — our previous research shows that playoff experience matters a lot in the NBA.
In the future, Microsoft reckons it could make sense to co-locate such underwater data centers with offshore wind farms.
But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
Other major news outlets made the same decision, hiding behind a misplaced sense of multicultural sensitivity.
And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
Because they stopped and I thought, “OK, that makes sense,” and then all of a sudden I saw another issue!
A constant sense of easy balance should be developed through poising exercises.
There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.
In one sense, then, the new issue has adequate expansibility for ordinary needs.
That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.
In the close relation and affection of these last days, the sense of alienation and antagonism faded from both their hearts.