| sense | |
| 1. n. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. | |
| 2. n. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. | |
| a sense of security | |
| 3. n. Sound practical or moral judgment. | |
| It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven. | |
| 4. n. The meaning, reason, or value of something. | |
| You don’t make any sense. | |
| the true sense of words or phrases | |
| 5. n. A natural appreciation or ability. | |
| A keen musical sense | |
| 6. n. (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented. | |
| 7. n. (semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary. | |
| 8. n. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity. | |
| 9. n. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise. | |
| 10. n. (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product. | |
| 11. v. To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel. | |
| 12. v. To instinctively be aware. | |
| She immediately sensed her disdain. | |
| 13. v. To comprehend. | |
