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sense

  (sĕns) pronunciation
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.
  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.
    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.
    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.
    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.]


 
 
Thesaurus: sense

noun

  1. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus: feeling, sensation, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment. See awareness/unawareness.
  2. The condition of being aware: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, perception. See knowledge/ignorance.
  3. The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge: brain (often used in plural), brainpower, intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind, understanding, wit. Slang smart (used in plural). See ability/inability, thoughts.
  4. The ability to make sensible decisions: common sense, judgment, wisdom. Informal gumption, horse sense. See ability/inability.
  5. A healthy mental state. lucidity, lucidness, mind, reason, saneness, sanity, soundness, wit (used in plural). Slang marble (used in plural). See sane/insane.
  6. What is sound or reasonable: logic, rationale, rationality, rationalness, reason. Idioms: rhyme or reason. See reason/unreason.
  7. That which is signified by a word or expression: acceptation, connotation, denotation, import, intent, meaning, message, purport, significance, significancy, signification, value. See meaning.

verb

  1. To be intuitively aware of: apprehend, feel, intuit, perceive. Idioms: feel in one's bones, get vibrations. See knowledge/ignorance.
  2. To view in a certain way: believe, feel, hold, think. See opinion.
  3. To perceive and recognize the meaning of: accept, apprehend, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, read, see, take, take in, understand. Informal savvy. Slang dig. Chiefly British twig. Scots ken. Idioms: gethavea handle on, get the picture. See understand/misunderstand.

 
Antonyms: sense

n

Definition: awareness, perception
Antonyms: indifference, insensibility, unawareness

v

Definition: become aware of
Antonyms: be numb, be unaware, overlook

 
Dental Dictionary: sense

n
sens

A faculty by which the conditions or properties of things are perceived. Hunger, thirst, malaise, and pain are varieties of sense.

 
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: sense

Mechanism by which information is received about one's external or internal environment. Stimuli received by nerves, in some cases through specialized organs with receptor cells sensitive to one type of stimulus, are converted into impulses that travel to specialized areas of the brain, where they are analyzed. In addition to the "five senses" — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch — humans have senses of motion (kinesthetic sense), heat, cold, pressure, pain, and balance. Temperature, pressure, and pain are cutaneous (skin) senses; different points on the skin are particularly sensitive to each. See also chemoreception, ear, eye, inner ear, mechanoreception, nose, photoreception, proprioception, taste, thermoreception, tongue.

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Sports Science and Medicine: sense

One of several faculties, including sight, touch, hearing, taste, and smell by which qualities of the internal and external environment can be appreciated.

 
Columbia Encyclopedia: sense,
faculty by which external or internal stimuli are conveyed to the brain centers, where they are registered as sensations. Sensory reception occurs in higher animals through a process known as transduction, in which stimuli are converted into nerve impulses and relayed to the brain. The four commonly known special senses (sight, hearing, smell, and taste) are concerned with the outer world, and external stimuli are received and conducted by sensory receptors concentrated in the eye, ear, olfactory organ, and the taste buds. The so-called somatic senses respond to both external and internal stimuli. Although most of the somatic receptors are located in the skin (conveying the external sensations of touch, heat, cold, pressure, and pain), others are located in internal organs (e.g., the heart and the stomach). Somatic sensations such as hunger, thirst, and fatigue are thought to originate in specific areas of the nervous system. The sense of balance, or equilibrium, is related to the flow of endolymph, a fluid found in the inner ear.

 
Veterinary Dictionary: sense

A faculty by which the conditions or properties of things are perceived. Hunger, thirst, malaise and pain are varieties of sense; a sense of equilibrium or of well-being (euphoria) and other senses are also distinguished. The five major senses comprise vision, hearing, smell (2), taste and touch (1).
The operation of all senses involves the reception of stimuli by sense organs. Each sense organ is sensitive to a particular kind of stimulus. The eyes are sensitive to light; the ears, to sound; the olfactory organs of the nose, to odor; and the taste buds of the tongue, to taste. Various sense organs of the skin and other tissues are sensitive to touch, pain, temperature and other sensations.
On receiving stimuli, the sense organ translates them into nerve impulses that are transmitted along the sensory nerves to the brain. In the cerebral cortex, the impulses are interpreted, or perceived, as sensations. The brain associates them with other information, acts upon them, and stores them as memory. See also sensation.

  • cutaneous s. — skin senses including touch, pressure, pain, heat and cold.
  • s. organs — 1. the organs of special sense including eye, olfactory organ, gustatory organs.
    • — 2. all organs containing sensory receptors.
  • special s's — the five senses including feeling, hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting.
  • s. strand — see coding strand.
 
Word Tutor: sense
pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Feeling, perception; good judgment.

pronunciation Common sense is not so common. — Voltaire (1694-1778), French philosopher.

Tutor's tip: To "cense" is to perfume with incense, "cents" is more than one penny, "scents" is odors, while "sense" is to become aware through the senses.

 
Quotes About: Senses

Quotes:

"We live on the leash of our senses." - Diane Ackerman

"There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses." - Diane Ackerman

"We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves." - Denis Diderot

"Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence." - Henry Fuseli

"Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Wikipedia: sense
This article is about the senses of living organisms (vision, taste, etc.). For other uses, see Sense (disambiguation).

Senses are the physiological methods of perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most notably neuroscience, cognitive psychology (or cognitive science), and philosophy of perception.

Definition of "sense"

There is no firm agreement among neurologists as to exactly how many senses there are, because of differing definitions of a sense. In general, one can say that a "sense" is a faculty by which outside stimuli are perceived. School children are routinely taught that there are five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste; a classification traditionally attributed to Aristotle). It is generally agreed that there are at least nine different senses in humans, and a minimum of two more observed in other organisms.

A broadly acceptable definition of a sense would be "a system that consists of a sensory cell type (or group of cell types) that responds to a specific kind of physical phenomenon, and that correspond to a defined region (or group of regions) within the brain where the signals are received and interpreted." Where disputes as to the number of senses arise is with regard to the exact classification of the various cell types and their mapping to regions of the brain.

Five classical senses

Sight

Sight or vision describes the ability of the brain and eye detecting electromagnetic waves within the visible range (light) interpreting the image as "sight." There is disagreement as to whether this constitutes one, two or even three distinct senses. Neuroanatomists generally regard it as two senses, given that different receptors are responsible for the perception of colour (the frequency of photons of light) and brightness (amplitude/intensity - number of photons of light). Some argue that stereopsis, the perception of depth, also constitutes a sense, but it is generally regarded that this is really a cognitive (that is, post-sensory) function of brain to interpret sensory input to derive new information. The inability to see is called blindness.

Hearing

Hearing or audition is the sense of sound perception and results from tiny hair fibres in the inner ear detecting the motion of a membrane which vibrates in response to changes in the pressure exerted by atmospheric particles within (at best) a range of 9 to 22000 Hz, however this changes for each individual. Sound can also be detected as vibrations conducted through the body by tactition. Lower and higher frequencies than can be heard are detected this way only. The inability to hear is called deafness.

Taste

Taste or gustation is one of the two main "chemical" senses. It is well-known that there are at least four types of taste "bud" (receptor) on the tongue and hence there are anatomists who argue that these in fact constitute four or more different senses, given that each receptor conveys information to a slightly different region of the brain. The inability to taste is called ageusia.

The four well-known receptors detect sweet, salt, sour, and bitter, although the receptors for sweet and bitter have not been conclusively identified. A fifth receptor, for a sensation called umami, was first theorised in 1908 and its existence confirmed in 2000[1]. The umami receptor detects the amino acid glutamate, a flavor commonly found in meat and in artificial flavourings such as monosodium glutamate.

Smell

Smell or olfaction is the other "chemical" sense. Unlike taste, there are hundreds of olfactory receptors, each binding to a particular molecular feature. Odor molecules possess a variety of features and thus excite specific receptors more or less strongly. This combination of excitatory signals from different receptors makes up what we perceive as the molecule's smell. In the brain, olfaction is processed by the olfactory system. Olfactory receptor neurons in the nose differ from most other neurons in that they die and regenerate on a regular basis. The inability to smell is called anosmia.

Touch

Touch, also called tactition or mechanoreception, is the sense of pressure perception, generally in the skin. There are a variety of pressure receptors that respond to variations in pressure (firm, brushing, sustained, etc).
The inability to feel anything or almost anything is called anesthesia. Paresthesia is a sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness of a person's skin with no apparent long term physical effect.

Other senses

Temperature

Thermoception is the sense of heat and the absence of heat (cold), also by the skin and including internal skin passages. There is some disagreement about how many senses this actually represents - the thermoceptors in the skin are quite different from the homeostatic thermoceptors in the brain (hypothalamus) which provide feedback on internal body temperature.

Pain

Nociception (physiological pain) is the nonconscious perception of near-damage or damage to tissue. It can be classified as from one to three senses, depending on the classification method. The three types of pain receptors are cutaneous (skin), somatic (joints and bones) and visceral (body organs). For a considerable time, it was believed that pain was simply the overloading of pressure receptors, but research in the first half of the 20th century indicated that pain is a distinct phenomenon that intertwines with all other senses, including touch. Pain was once considered a wholly subjective experience, but recent studies show that pain is registered in the anterior cingulate gyrus of the brain.

Balance and Acceleration

Equilibrioception, the vestibular sense, is the perception of balance or acceleration and is related to cavities containing fluid in the inner ear. There is some disagreement as to whether this also includes the sense of "direction" or orientation. However, as with depth perception earlier, it is generally regarded that "direction" is a post-sensory cognitive awareness.

Body awareness

Proprioception, the kinesthetic sense, is the perception of body awareness and is a sense that people are frequently not aware of, but rely on enormously. More easily demonstrated than explained, proprioception is the "unconscious" awareness of where the various regions of the body are located at any one time. (This can be demonstrated by anyone's closing the eyes and waving the hand around. Assuming proper proprioceptive function, at no time will the person lose awareness of where the hand actually is, even though it is not being detected by any of the other senses). It can be used in reaction time. Proprioception and touch are related in subtle ways, and their impairment results in surprising and deep deficits in perception and action (Robles-De-La-Torre 2006). In contrast, an octopus has no or limited proprioception due to the complicated shapes their tentacles can form.

Other internal senses

An internal sense is "any sense that is normally stimulated from within the body."[2]

  • epigastric sense is a "weak, sinking or anxious feeling localized in the stomach", as in nausea.[4]
  • time sense is "the ability to appreciate time intervals, especially in sound and in music".[5]
  • vascular sense is "the sensation felt when there is a change in vascular tone, as in blushing".[6]
  • gagging is accompanied by a sensation felt when a foreign object such as food enters the windpipe.
  • excretory senses are sensations felt in the urinary bladder or rectum.

Non-human senses

Analogous to human senses

Other living organisms have receptors to sense the world around them, including many of the senses listed above for humans. However, the mechanisms and capabilities vary widely.

Smell

Among non-human species, dogs have a much keener sense of smell than humans, although the mechanism is similar. Insects have olfactory receptors on their antennae.

Vision

Pit vipers and some boas have organs that allow them to detect infrared light, such that these snakes are able to sense the body heat of their prey. The common vampire bat may also have an infrared sensor on its nose[7] Infrared senses are, however, just sight in a different light frequency range. It has been found that birds and some other animals are tetrachromats and have the ability to see in the ultraviolet down to 300 nanometers. Bees are also able to see in the ultraviolet.

Balance

Ctenophores have a balance receptor (a statocyst) that works very differently from the mammalian semi-circular canals.

Not analogous to human senses

In addition, some animals have senses that humans do not, including the following:

  • Electroception (or "electroreception"), the most significant of the non-human senses, is the ability to detect electric fields. Several species of fish, sharks and rays have evolved the capacity to sense changes in electric fields in their immediate vicinity. Some fish passively sense changing nearby electric fields; some generate their own weak electric fields, and sense the pattern of field potentials over their body surface; and some use these electric field generating and sensing capacities for social communication. The mechanisms by which electroceptive fishes construct a spatial representation from very small differences in field potentials involve comparisons of spike latencies from different parts of the fish's body.
The only order of mammals that is known to demonstrate electroception is the monotreme order. Among these mammals, the platypus[8] has the most acute sense of electroception.
Body modification enthusiasts have experimented with magnetic implants to attempt to replicate this sense,[9] however in general humans (and probably other mammals) can detect electric fields only indirectly by detecting the effect they have on hairs. An electrically charged balloon, for instance, will exert a force on human arm hairs, which can be felt through tactition and identified as coming from a static charge (and not from wind or the like). This is however not electroception as it is a post-sensory cognitive action.
  • Echolocation is the ability to determine orientation to other objects through interpretation of reflected sound (like sonar). Bats and cetaceans are noted for this ability, though some other animals use it, as well. It is most often used to navigate through poor lighting conditions or to identify and track prey. There is currently an uncertainty whether this is simply an extremely developed post-sensory interpretation of auditory perceptions or it actually constitutes a separate sense. Resolution of the issue will require brain scans of animals while they actually perform echolocation, a task that has proven difficult in practice. Blind people report they are able to navigate by interpreting reflected sounds (esp. their own footsteps), a phenomenon which is known as Human echolocation.
  • Magnetoception (or "magnetoreception") is the ability to detect fluctuations in magnetic fields and is most commonly observed in birds, though it has also been observed in insects such as bees. Although there is no dispute that this sense exists in many avians (it is essential to the navigational abilities of migratory birds), it is not a well-understood phenomenon[10]. There is experimental and physical evidence to suggest this sense exists in a weak form in humans.
Magnetotactic bacteria build miniature magnets inside themselves and use them to determine their orientation relative to the Earth's magnetic field.
  • Pressure detection uses the lateral line, which is a pressure-sensing system of hairs found in fish and some aquatic amphibians. It is used primarily for navigation, hunting, and schooling. Humans have a basic relative-pressure detection ability when eustachian tube(s) are blocked, as demonstrated in the ear's response to changes in altitude.
  • Polarized light direction / detection is used by bees to orient themselves, especially on cloudy days.

See also

Research Centers

References

  1. ^ http://www.nature.com/neuro/press_release/nn0200.html
  2. ^ Dorland's Medical Dictionary 26th edition, under sense
  3. ^ Dorland's Medical Dictionary 26th edition, under sense
  4. ^ Dorland's Medical Dictionary 26th edition, under sensation
  5. ^ Dorland's Medical Dictionary 26th edition, under sense
  6. ^ Dorland's Medical Dictionary 26th edition, under sensation
  7. ^ www.pitt.edu/AFShome/s/l/slavic/public/html/courses/vampires/images/bats/vambat.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-25.
  8. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/19981206164009/http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/bionb420.07/anelson/platypus.html
  9. ^ Implant gives artist the sense of "magnetic vision". Retrieved on 2007-05-25.
  10. ^ http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/magsense/ms.html

External links

Nervous system: Sensory systems/sense
Special senses Visual system/Visual perception • Auditory system/Hearing • Chemoreception (Olfactory system/Olfaction • Gustatory system/Taste)
Somatosensory system Nociception • Thermoreception • Vestibular system • Mechanoreception (Pressure, Vibration, Proprioception)
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Misspellings: sense

Common misspelling(s) of sense

  • sence

 
Translations: Translations for: Sense

Dansk (Danish)
n. - mening, sund fornuft, forstand, sans, fornemmelse, følelse, betydning, retning
v. tr. - mærke, føle, fornemme

idioms:

  • bring someone to their senses    tale til fornuft
  • come to one's senses    komme til fornuft
  • in a sense    på en måde
  • make sense    lyde fornuftigt
  • make sense of    forstå, begribe
  • out of one's senses    være fra forstanden, fejle noget
  • sense of direction    retningssans
  • sense organ    sanseorgan
  • take leave of one's senses    blive gal

Nederlands (Dutch)
voelen, ervaren, bespeuren, lucht krijgen van, voorvoelen, zintuig, zin, gevoel, betekenis, verstand, zenuw

Français (French)
n. - (gén, Ling) sens, (fig) sens de, sentiment, bon sens, sensibilité, intuition, raison de (faire qch), idée, opinion (générale) (sout), raison (npl), esprits (npl)
v. tr. - deviner, détecter, percevoir, flairer, pressentir, (Comput) détecter, lire (des données)

idioms:

  • bring someone to their senses    raisonner une personne
  • come to one's senses    revenir à la raison
  • in a sense    en un sens, en quelque sorte
  • in one's senses    (revenir) à la raison
  • make sense    être logique, avoir un sens
  • make sense of    expliquer logiquement qch
  • out of one's senses    (avoir) perdu la raison
  • sense of direction    sens de l'orientation
  • sense organ    organe sensoriel
  • take leave of one's senses    perdre la raison/l'esprit

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sinn, Bedeutung, Verstand, Gefühl
v. - wahrnehmen, spüren, wittern

idioms:

  • bring someone to their senses    jmdn. zur Vernunft od. Besinnung bringen
  • come to one's senses    zur Vernunft kommen
  • in a sense    in gewissem Sinne
  • in one's senses    bei Sinnen oder Verstand
  • make sense    Sinn ergeben, Sinn haben
  • make sense of    verstehen
  • out of one's senses    nicht bei Sinnen
  • sense of direction    Orientierungssinn
  • sense organ    Sinnesorgan
  • take leave of one's senses    verrückt werden

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αίσθηση, αίσθημα, αισθητήριο, συναίσθηση, έννοια, σημασία, λογική, κατεύθυνση
v. - αισθάνομαι, διαισθάνομαι, αντιλαμβάνομαι, κατανοώ, (τεχνολ.) εντοπίζω

idioms:

  • bring someone to their senses    συνετίζω, βάζω μυαλό σε
  • come to one's senses    έρχομαι στα λογικά/συγκαλά μου, συνέρχομαι
  • in a sense    κατά κάποια έννοια
  • make sense    έχω (λογικό) ειρμό ή νόημα
  • make sense of    αντιλαμβάνομαι τη λογική του
  • out of one's senses    παραλογιζόμενος
  • sense of direction    αισθητήριο/ικανότητα προσανατολισμού
  • sense organ    (φυσιολ.) αισθητήριο όργανο
  • take leave of one's senses    παραλογίζομαι

Italiano (Italian)
sentire, percepire, fiutare, presentire, senso, sentimento, significato, sensazione

idioms:

  • bring a person to his/her senses    far rinsavire qualcuno
  • come to one's senses    rinsavire
  • in a sense    in un certo senso
  • make sense    avere senso
  • make sense of    capire
  • out of one's senses    fuori di sè
  • sense of direction    senso dell'orientamento
  • sense organ    organi sensoriali
  • take leave of one's senses    perdere la testa

Português (Portuguese)
n. - senso (m), sentido (m), sentimento (m)
v. - sentir

idioms:

  • bring a person to his/her senses    trazer uma pessoa à razão
  • come to one's senses    recobrar o juízo
  • in a sense    em um sentido
  • make sense    fazer sentido
  • make sense of    fazer sentido de
  • out of one's senses    ter perdido o juízo
  • sense of direction    senso de direção
  • sense organ    órgão sensorial
  • take leave of one's senses    começar a comportar-se de forma tola

Русский (Russian)
чувство, ощущение, разум, здравый смысл, значение, общее настроение, чувствовать, понимать

idioms:

  • bring a person to his/her senses    образумить
  • come to one's senses    образумиться, прийти в себя
  • in a sense    до некоторой степени
  • make sense    иметь смысл, быть понятым
  • make sense of    понимать смысл, разобраться в чем-л.
  • out of one's senses    рехнуться, спятить
  • sense of direction    чувство направления
  • sense organ    орган чувства
  • take leave of one's senses    сойти с ума, рехнуться

Español (Spanish)
n. - sentido, sentimiento, significado, acepción, comprensión, entendimiento, intuición
v. tr. - sentir, experimentar, observar, reparar en, oler, percibir, comprender, intuir, presentir

idioms:

  • bring someone to their senses    hacer reaccionar a alguien
  • come to one's senses    recobrar el juicio
  • in a sense    en cierto sentido, hasta cierto punto
  • in one's senses    totalmente consciente, en su sano juicio
  • make sense    tener sentido
  • make sense of    comprender el sentido de algo
  • out of one's senses    perder la razón
  • sense of direction    sentido de la orientación
  • sense organ    órgano sensorial
  • take leave of one's senses    perder el juicio, volverse loco

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sinne, känsla, vett, förstånd, förnuft, mening, betydelse, stämning
v. - känna, ha på känn, märka, uppfatta, förstå, fatta, känna av

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
感官, 感觉, 官能, 意识, 感到, 认识, 理解

idioms:

  • bring someone to their senses    使某人醒悟过来
  • come to one's senses    苏醒过来, 醒悟
  • in a sense    在某种意义上
  • make sense    有意义
  • make sense of    搞清...的意思
  • out of one's senses    失去理性
  • sense of direction    方向感
  • sense organ    感觉器官
  • take leave of one's senses    发疯

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 感官, 感覺, 官能, 意識
v. tr. - 感到, 認識, 理解

idioms:

  • bring someone to their senses    使某人醒悟過來
  • come to one's senses    甦醒過來, 醒悟
  • in a sense    在某種意義上
  • make sense    有意義
  • make sense of    搞清...的意思
  • out of one's senses    失去理性
  • sense of direction    方向感
  • sense organ    感覺器官
  • take leave of one's senses    發瘋

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 감각, 느낌, 사려
v. tr. - 느껴 알다, 알아채다, (기계가) 탐지하다

idioms:

  • bring someone to their senses    아무를 제정신이 들게 하다, 미혹에서 깨우쳐 주다
  • come to one's senses    의식을 되찾다, 피어나다, 본심으로 되돌아오다
  • in a sense    어떤 점에서, 어느 정도까지
  • make sense    도리에 맞다, 뜻을 이루다, 이해되다
  • make sense of    ~의 뜻을 이해하다
  • take leave of one's senses    제정신을 잃다, 미치다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 感覚, 五感の一つ, 感じ, 分別, 良識, 理解する感覚, センス, 意義, 正常な精神状態, 気持ち, 認識
v. - 感づく, 感知する, 理解する, 感じる, 探知する

idioms:

  • come to one's senses    正気に返る, 迷いが覚める
  • in a sense    ある点で
  • make sense    意味をなす, 意味を了解する
  • make sense of    意味をとる
  • out of one's senses    正気を失って
  • sense of direction    方向感覚
  • sense of humour    ユーモアがわかる心
  • sense of proportion    平衡感覚
  • sense organ    感覚器官

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) وعي, أحساس, , حاسه, أدراك (فعل) يفهم, يدرك, يحس‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חוש, הרגשה, תחושה, הכרה, תבונה, חוכמה, משמעות, מובן‬
v. tr. - ‮חש, הרגיש, גילה‬

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