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sense
English
Alternative forms
- sence (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English sense, borrowed from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”); partly from Latin sensus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from senti? (“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”). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s?n(t)s/
- (General American) enPR: s?ns, IPA(key): /s?ns/
- (pen-pin merger) IPA(key): /s?n(t)s/
- Rhymes: -?ns
- Homophones: cents, scents, since (some dialects)
Noun
sense (countable and uncountable, plural senses)
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- a sense of security
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- You don’t make any sense.
- the true sense of words or phrases
- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- A keen musical sense
- (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- (semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
- The word set has various senses.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
Synonyms
- nonnonsense
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- common-sense
- good sense
- nonsense
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Afrikaans: sense
Translations
See also
Verb
sense (third-person singular simple present senses, present participle sensing, simple past and past participle sensed)
- To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
- To instinctively be aware.
- She immediately sensed her disdain.
- To comprehend.
Translations
Anagrams
- Essen, NESes, SE SNe, enses, esnes, seens, senes, snees
Afrikaans
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English sense.
Noun
sense (uncountable)
- sense, good sense
Etymology 2
Noun
sense
- plural of sens
Catalan
Alternative forms
- sens
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin sine, possibly conflated with absentia, or more likely from sens, itself from Old Catalan sen (with an adverbial -s-), from Latin sine. Compare French sans, Occitan sens, Italian senza.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?s?n.s?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?s?n.s?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?sen.se/
Preposition
sense
- without
- Antonym: amb
Derived terms
- sensesostre
Further reading
- “sense” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sense” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “sense” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sense” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chuukese
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ?? (sensei).
Noun
sense
- teacher
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sen.se/, [?s???s??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sen.se/, [?s?ns?]
Participle
s?nse
- vocative masculine singular of s?nsus
Occitan
Alternative forms
- sens
- shens (Gascony)
Etymology
From a variant of Latin sine (“without”), influenced by abs?ns (“absent, remote”).
Preposition
sense
- without
References
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 556.
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acumen
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ac?men (“sharp point”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ækj?m?n/, /??kju?m?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /??kjum?n/, /?ækj?m?n/
- (US, rare) IPA(key): /æ?kjum?n/, /?ækj??m?n/
Noun
acumen (usually uncountable, plural acumens)
- Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
- Synonyms: sharpness, penetration, keenness, shrewdness, acuteness, acuity, wit, foxiness, intelligence, canniness
- (botany) A sharp, tapering point extending from a plant.
- (anatomy) A bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium.
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- acumen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
From acu? (“make sharp or pointed, sharpen”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix), from acus (“a needle, a pin”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a?ku?.men/, [ä?ku?m?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a?ku.men/, [??ku?m?n]
Noun
ac?men n (genitive ac?minis); third declension
- a sharpened point
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
- ac?min?rius
- ac?min?
Related terms
Descendants
- Galician: gume
- Portuguese: gume
- ? English: acumen
- ? Italian: acume
- ? Portuguese: acume, acúmen
- ? Spanish: acumen
References
- acumen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- acumen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[7], London: Macmillan and Co.
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