senses >> sɛns
Definition: [noun] a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
Example: the bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk
Definition: [noun] a feeling that something is the case.
Example: she had the sense of being a political outsider
Definition: [noun] a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
Example: he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings
Definition: [noun] a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
Example: it is not clear which sense of the word ‘characters’ is intended in this passage
Definition: [noun] 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.
Example: the cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite sense
Definition: [verb] perceive by a sense or senses.
Example: with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days
Definition: [verb] (of a machine or similar device) detect.
Example: an optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor