sense
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4.1
- noun
- /sɛns/
:
sentido
- OK, So that made perfect sense to me.
- make sense
- in a broad sense
- sense of the word
Those questions don't make any sense right now.
- Those questions don't make any sense right now.
- Well, there there's a sense in which I.
- Which one of these would make the most sense in the story?
- fair enough in some limited sense, which and that's
- They find it in some sense meaningful.
- Well, it is nothing in the sense that it is no thing.
- And then that reduction makes sense in a graduated way.
- Or is that in a certain sense a lie?
- We're not really making sense, so stop talking.
- How are we going to make sense of that sensible world?
- Like it doesn't make sense that there should be some.
Examples
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Edx is, in the very best sense, a work in progress.
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There was no longer real space for making sense of the changes happening so rapidly in the country.
Academic text (2011) -
Which one of these would make the most sense in the story?
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Who helps us understand, make sense out of reality?
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So really in a sense, this is her fault.
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And so truth in that sense becomes very useful.
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OK, does that make sense if I were to do this?
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"We are trying to think about how we can give her the sense of choice," she says.
Academic text (2011) -
When we talk about technology in the broadest sense, that is what we are talking about.
Academic text (1999) -
When learning new vocabulary, understanding the different senses of words is important.
Synonyms
890
1.0
An idea a word or sign shows
871
1.1
The ability to know what something means
400
4.2
A way of understanding or judging something
314
4.4
An explanation of what something means
2
7.7
The meaning that a word, sign, or symbol expresses
One meaning of a word in a certain context
The idea a word gives about someone, something, or an action
The idea that a word or sign shows
Idioms
Compounds
17
7.6
A natural feeling that tells you things without using sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste
12
3.0
A proud, satisfied feeling you get after finishing something difficult
7
3.8
An understanding of what is right and wrong that guides a person's actions
- Specialized
1
9.9
A simple immediate experience from seeing, hearing, or touching before the mind interprets it
- Specialized
A sense that tells you where your head is and how it moves from the inner ear
- Specialized
Ability to feel where your body parts are and how they move without looking
- Specialized
Parts of the inner ear that tell you your head position and keep you balanced
- Specialized
A sensor on a machine that detects light, sound, distance or temperature
- Specialized
The ability to feel touch, pain, temperature, body position, and internal organs
- Specialized
Parts of the inner ear that tell your body about balance and movement
How Clear
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word sense comes from the Latin sentire, 'to feel'. That idea of 'feeling' moved into language as 'meaning', so a sense of a word is the way it is understood.