Sence or Sense - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between sence and sense is that sence is while sense is (senseid) any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. As a verb sense is to use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
sence
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sense
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Noun
(en noun )
(senseid) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
- Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)
- What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
(senseid)Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- a sense of security
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Philip Sidney)
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)
- high disdain from sense of injured merit
(senseid)Sound practical or moral judgment.
- It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (w , L’Estrange )
- Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
(senseid)The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- You don’t make any sense .
- the true sense of words or phrases
* Bible, Neh. viii. 8
- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense .
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)
- I think ’twas in another sense .
(senseid)A natural appreciation or ability.
- A keen musical sense
(senseid)(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
(senseid)(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
(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.
(senseid) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
Derived terms
* sense of smell (see olfaction)
* (l)
See also
* business sense
* common sense
* sixth sense
* sight / vision
* hearing / audition
* taste / gustation
* smell / olfaction
* touch / tactition
* thermoception
* nociception
* equilibrioception
* proprioception
Verb
(sens)
To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
To instinctively be aware.
- She immediately sensed her disdain.
To comprehend.
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