sensing
感知,感应,检测,感觉
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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
To make sense of the ending of Trust Exercise, stop thinking of the characters as individuals.
My 2009 brain never was able to make sense of the architecture until last week, when I was able to see the pillars and foundations that hold the whole region together.
He didn’t tell her about my journalism, or my sense of humor or the fact I was from a teeny tiny town.
They suggest motion and produce a sense of distance between background and foreground.
I discovered their desire, like mine, to help these boys achieve success … the camaraderie and sense of family and friendship across all boundaries … and the incredible focus of power that happened when everyone focused on the same goal.
Sensing his opportunity, Joey Biden pounced: “I walked up behind him and smashed his head next to the counter.”
My two elder brothers, overhearing the story, and I think sensing something exciting, wanted to come along, too.
Crumbs, sensing an opportunity, went public in early 2011, and set about expanding.
Essentially, in a package the size of a sugar cube, you can have the sensing components necessary.
Here, more than anywhere else, Sensing Spaces awakens our senses.
Landy, too, sensing the importance of coming events, improved his appearance by buttoning up his shirt-front.
The questioner, sensing this alteration in the other, made his queries all the quicker and more peremptory.
They had hesitated to break in upon my solitude, but now, sensing that I have protection, they speak out.
"I guess nobody ever is happy so very much," Charlie continued, sensing that Peter was stumped for the moment.
If sensation be related868 to the sense-object, why do they not equally relate "sensing" (feeling) to the sense-object?