"sensory" meaning in English

See sensory in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sensory.wav
Rhymes: -ɛnsəɹi Etymology: From sense + -ory. Etymology templates: {{af|en|sense|-ory}} sense + -ory Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} sensory (not comparable)
  1. Of the physical senses or sensation. Tags: not-comparable Translations (of the senses or sensation): sensories (Afrikaans), حِسِّيّ (ḥissiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), حِسِّيَّة (ḥissiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), сетивен (setiven) (Bulgarian), sensorial (Catalan), sensori (Catalan), 感覺的 (Chinese Mandarin), 感觉的 (gǎnjuéde) (Chinese Mandarin), smyslový [masculine] (Czech), aisti- (Finnish), aistimuksellinen (Finnish), aistinvarainen (Finnish), sensorinen (Finnish), sensoriel (French), Sinnes- (German), sensorisch (German), αισθητήριος (aisthitírios) [masculine] (Greek), sensala (Ido), céadfach (Irish), céadfaíoch (Irish), sensoriale (Italian), sansemessig (Norwegian Bokmål), sensorisk (Norwegian Bokmål), sansemessig (Norwegian Nynorsk), sensorisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), sensorial (Portuguese), senzorial (Romanian), sensorial (Spanish), sensorio (Spanish), duyusal (Turkish), duyumsal (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-sensory-en-adj-Ow32BbJd Disambiguation of 'of the senses or sensation': 86 14
  2. (neuroanatomy) Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Neuroanatomy Synonyms: afferent
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sensely, sensible, sensory, sensual, sensuous, sensatory, sensorial, sensoric Hyponyms: auditory, gustatory, haptic, ocular, olfactory, visual Related terms: sensible, sensual, sensuous

Noun

IPA: /ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sensory.wav Forms: sensories [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛnsəɹi Etymology: From sense + -ory. Etymology templates: {{af|en|sense|-ory}} sense + -ory Head templates: {{en-noun}} sensory (plural sensories)
  1. (biology, dated) The sensorium. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Biology
    Sense id: en-sensory-en-noun-SgsivvGh Topics: biology, natural-sciences
  2. (obsolete) An organ or faculty of sense. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-sensory-en-noun-aJvowrFR
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sensoric Derived forms: sensorial

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1665, Thomas Bartholin, chapter VI, in anonymous translator, Bartholinus Anatomy, London: Nich. Culpeper and Abdiah Cole, translation of Anatomia (in New Latin), page 142:",
          "text": "The Species of things are perceived rather there whereto they are carried. But every ſenſory Nerve each in its place carries the Species to the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow, and therefore each in their place are judged and received by the Soul, in the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow.",
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          "ref": "1873, Alpheus Spring Packard, “Hints on the Ancestry of Insects”, in Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, Salem: Naturalists’ Agency, page 174:",
          "text": "It is evident that in the ancestor of these two groups the first pair of appendages became early adapted for purely sensory purposes, and were naturally projected far in advance of the mouth, forming the antennæ.",
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          "ref": "1991, Tetsuo Matsui, Susumu Kato, Susan E. Smith, “Biology and Potential Use of Pacific Grenadier, Coryphaenoides acrolepis, off California”, in Marine Fisheries Review, volume 52, number 3, →ISSN, page 13:",
          "text": "Findings of the sensory analysis panel at NWFSC [the Northwest Fisheries Science Center], which tested and classified flesh characteristics of both Pacific and giant grenadier, are averaged and summarized in Table 10.",
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        "(neuroanatomy) Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers."
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      ],
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        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "sensorium",
          "sensorium"
        ],
        [
          "Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary",
          "w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909"
        ],
        [
          "G. & C. Merriam",
          "w:Merriam-Webster"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology, dated) The sensorium."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
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        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "a. 1626, Francis Bacon, “Consent of Visibles, and Audibles”, in Sylva Sylvarvm: Or, A Naturall Historie, 3rd edition, London: William Rawley, published 1631, page 68:",
          "text": "BOth of them ſpread themſelues in Round, and fill a whole Floare or Orbe, vnto certaine Limits : and are carried a great way : And doe languiſh and leſſen by degrees, according to the Diſtance of the Obiects from the Senſories.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1689–90, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, Memoirs of John Evelyn, new edition, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, published 1827, page 292:",
          "text": "Dr. Burnet, late Bishop of Sarum, on 4 Heb. v. 13, anatomically describing the texture of the eye[…]so God who made this sensorie, did with the greatest ease and at once see all that was don thro’ the vast universe, even to the very thought as well as action.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An organ or faculty of sense."
      ],
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        [
          "organ",
          "organ"
        ],
        [
          "faculty",
          "faculty"
        ],
        [
          "sense",
          "sense"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) An organ or faculty of sense."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "rhymes": "-ɛnsəɹi"
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  ],
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    {
      "word": "sensoric"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sensory"
}

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