sense

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.

1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.

a sense of security

this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

high disdain from sense of injured merit

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

The days have vanish’d, tone and tint,
And yet perhaps the hoarding sense
Gives out at times (he knows not whence)
A little flash, a mystic hint; […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLIII, page 66:

Where a college administration does not come forward and say that gay people have a right to be here, there is a sense among students that it is acceptable to harass and intimidate lesbian and gay members of that community.

1990 December 16, Laura Briggs, quoting Robert Weinerman, “Gay Students Fight 'Little War' At Mass. School”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 15:

Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.

some People so Harden'd in Wickedness, as to have No Sense at all of the most Friendly Offices, or the Highest Benefits.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

word sense disambiguation

the various senses of the word “car” (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)

en:meaning or reason, generally
en:any particular meaning of a word

The meaning, reason, or value of something.

Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nehemiah 8:8:

I think ’twas in another sense.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

en:meaning or reason, generally
en:semantics term

(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.

You don’t make any sense.

A keen musical sense

(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.

(biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

en-noun

sense (countable and uncountable, plural senses)

enough sense to pound sand into a rathole

where there's no sense there's no feeling

→ Afrikaans: sense

sintuig

manner by which living beings perceive the physical world

From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, perception, direction”); partly from Latin sēnsus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn ("reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"; whence also Dutch zin, German Sinn, Swedish sinne, Norwegian sinn). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).


sense

To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.

She immediately sensed her disdain.

en-verb

sense (third-person singular simple present senses, present participle sensing, simple past and past participle sensed)

senses (present singular third-person)
sensing (participle present)
sensed (participle past)
sensed (past)