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sensed
We have found lemma(root) word of sensed : sense.
Definitions
[sɛns], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch
(e.g: the bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk)
- a feeling that something is the case
(e.g: she had the sense of being a political outsider)
- a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems
(e.g: he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings)
- a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning
(e.g: it is not clear which sense of the word ‘characters’ is intended in this passage)
- a property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other
(e.g: the cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite sense)
Phrases:
- bring someone to their senses
- come to one's senses
- in a sense
- in every sense of the word
- in one's senses
- make sense
- make sense of
- out of one's senses
- take leave of one's senses
Origin
:
late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘meaning’): from Latin sensus ‘faculty of feeling, thought, meaning’, from sentire ‘feel’. The verb dates from the mid 16th century
[sɛns], (Verb)
Definitions:
- perceive by a sense or senses
(e.g: with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days)
- (of a machine or similar device) detect
(e.g: an optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor)
Phrases:
- bring someone to their senses
- come to one's senses
- in a sense
- in every sense of the word
- in one's senses
- make sense
- make sense of
- out of one's senses
- take leave of one's senses
Origin
:
late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘meaning’): from Latin sensus ‘faculty of feeling, thought, meaning’, from sentire ‘feel’. The verb dates from the mid 16th century
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