sense
- Noun. One of the methods for a living being to gather data about the world; sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- Noun. A general conscious awareness.
- Noun. Sound practical judgment, as in common sense.
- Noun. The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- Noun. A natural appreciation or ability.
- Noun. (context, pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- Noun. (context, semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
- Noun. (context, mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- Noun. (context, mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- Verb. To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
- Verb. To instinctively be aware.
- Verb. To comprehend.
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