sense : Idioms & Phrases

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auditory sense

  • noun the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
    audition; auditory sense; auditory modality; hearing.
    • his hearing was impaired
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Common sense

  • noun sound practical judgment
    gumption; mother wit; good sense; sense; common sense.
    • Common sense is not so common
    • he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples
    • fortunately she had the good sense to run away
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  • according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) "The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions." (b) "The faculty of first principles." These two are the philosophical significations. (c) "Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish." (d) When the substantive is emphasized: "Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation."
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Counter sense

  • opposite meaning.
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cutaneous senses

  • noun the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
    touch; sense of touch; touch modality; cutaneous senses.
    • only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us
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good sense

  • noun sound practical judgment
    gumption; mother wit; good sense; sense; common sense.
    • Common sense is not so common
    • he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples
    • fortunately she had the good sense to run away
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Historical sense

  • that meaning of a passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under which it was written.
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Horse sense

  • noun sound practical judgment
    gumption; mother wit; good sense; sense; common sense.
    • Common sense is not so common
    • he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples
    • fortunately she had the good sense to run away
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  • strong common sense. Colloq. U.S.
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Illative sense

  • (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.
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labyrinthine sense

  • noun a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head
    labyrinthine sense; sense of equilibrium; sense of balance; equilibrium.
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make sense

  • verb be reasonable or logical or comprehensible
    add up.
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Moral sense

  • noun motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
    conscience; scruples; moral sense.
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  • the power of moral judgment and feeling; the capacity to perceive what is right or wrong in moral conduct, and to approve or disapprove, independently of education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law.
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muscle sense

  • noun the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
    kinaesthesia; kinesthesis; kinaesthesis; muscle sense; kinesthesia; kinesthetics.
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Muscular sense

  • (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offering by external objects.
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road sense

  • noun good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road
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Sense capsule

  • (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing.
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sense datum

  • noun an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
    sense experience; sensation; esthesis; aesthesis; sense datum.
    • a sensation of touch
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sense experience

  • noun an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
    sense experience; sensation; esthesis; aesthesis; sense datum.
    • a sensation of touch
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sense impression

  • noun an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
    sense experience; sensation; esthesis; aesthesis; sense datum.
    • a sensation of touch
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sense modality

  • noun a particular sense
    sensory system; modality.
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sense of balance

  • noun a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head
    labyrinthine sense; sense of equilibrium; sense of balance; equilibrium.
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sense of direction

  • noun an awareness of your orientation in space
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sense of duty

  • noun a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
    sense of duty.
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sense of equilibrium

  • noun a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head
    labyrinthine sense; sense of equilibrium; sense of balance; equilibrium.
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sense of hearing

  • noun the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
    audition; auditory sense; auditory modality; hearing.
    • his hearing was impaired
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sense of humor

  • noun the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
    sense of humor; humor; humour.
    • she didn't appreciate my humor
    • you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor
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sense of humour

  • noun the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
    sense of humor; humor; humour.
    • she didn't appreciate my humor
    • you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor
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sense of movement

  • noun the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
    kinaesthesia; kinesthesis; kinaesthesis; muscle sense; kinesthesia; kinesthetics.
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sense of purpose

  • noun the quality of having a definite purpose
    purposefulness.
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sense of responsibility

  • noun an awareness of your obligations
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sense of right and wrong

  • noun motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
    conscience; scruples; moral sense.
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sense of shame

  • noun a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
    sense of duty.
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sense of smell

  • noun the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
    smell; olfaction; olfactory modality.
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sense of taste

  • noun the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
    taste; gustation; gustatory modality.
    • his cold deprived him of his sense of taste
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sense of the meeting

  • noun general agreement reached by an assembled group
    • no vote was taken, but after each discussion the chair summed up the sense of the meeting
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sense of touch

  • noun the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
    touch; sense of touch; touch modality; cutaneous senses.
    • only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us
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Sense organ

  • noun an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
    receptor; sensory receptor.
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  • (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc.
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Sense organule

  • (Anat.), one of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate.
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sense tagger

  • noun a tagging program whose labels indicate the meanings of words or expressions
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sensing element

  • noun any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
    detector; sensor.
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sixth sense

  • noun grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
    insight.
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skin senses

  • noun the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
    touch; sense of touch; touch modality; cutaneous senses.
    • only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us
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somatic sense

  • noun the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
    somatic sensory system; somesthesis; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somesthesia; somatosensory system; somaesthesia.
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Spirit of sense

  • the utmost refinement of sensation. Obs. Shak.
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Temperature sense

  • (Physiol.), the faculty of perceiving cold and warmth, and so of perceiving differences of temperature in external objects. H. N. Martin.
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The historic sense

  • the capacity to conceive and represent the unity and significance of a past era or age.
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The inner, ∨ internal, sense

  • capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. "This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense." Locke.
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vestibular sense

  • noun a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head
    labyrinthine sense; sense of equilibrium; sense of balance; equilibrium.
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visual sense

  • noun the ability to see; the visual faculty
    visual modality; vision; sight.
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word sense

  • noun the accepted meaning of a word
    word meaning; acceptation.
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