sense

名词 n. 动词 v.
发音 sĕns

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. countable,uncountable
    — Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
  2. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. countable,uncountable
    — a sense of security
    The New Arcadia
  3. Sound practical or moral judgment. countable,uncountable
    — It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
  4. The meaning, reason, or value of something. countable,uncountable
    — You don’t make any sense.
  5. The meaning, reason, or value of something.; A meaning of a term (word or expression), among its various meanings. countable,uncountable
    — the various senses of the word “car” (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)
  6. The meaning, reason, or value of something.; A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary. countable,uncountable
  7. A natural appreciation or ability. countable,uncountable
    — A keen musical sense
  8. The way that a referent is presented. countable,uncountable
  9. One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity. countable,uncountable
  10. One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise. countable,uncountable
  11. referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
  2. To instinctively be aware.
    — She immediately sensed her disdain.
  3. To comprehend.

词形变化

senses plural sence alternative senses present,singular,third-person sensing participle,present sensed participle,past sensed past sence alternative

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词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
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”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
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”).
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