sensible : Idioms & Phrases

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Sensible horizon

  • noun the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
    visible horizon; skyline; horizon; apparent horizon.
WordNet
  • . See Horizon, n., 2. (a).
Webster 1913

Sensible note ∨ tone

  • (Mus.), the major seventh note of any scale; so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound. Called also the leading tone.
Webster 1913