different between sense vs principle
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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principle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French principe, from Latin pr?ncipium (“beginning, foundation”), from pr?nceps (“first”); see prince.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??ns?p?l/, /?p??ns?p?l/
- Hyphenation: prin?ci?ple
- Homophone: principal
Noun
principle (plural principles)
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
- Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the application of __ is asleep on the floor to my dog, we can think of it as expressing the application of the concept
my dog is asleep on __
to the object
the floor
(see Frege 1919). Frege recognizes what is now a commonplace in the logical analysis of natural language. We can attribute more than one logical form to a single sentence. Let us call this the principle of multiple analyses. Frege does not claim that the principle always holds, but as we shall see, modern type theory does claim this.
- Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the application of __ is asleep on the floor to my dog, we can think of it as expressing the application of the concept
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
- (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
- I don't doubt your principles.
- You are clearly a person of principle.
- It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust.
- (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
- Bernoulli's Principle
- The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.
- The principle of the internal combustion engine
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
- 1845, William Gregory, Outlines of Chemistry
- Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.
- 1845, William Gregory, Outlines of Chemistry
- (obsolete) A beginning.
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of Being Religious
- The soul of man is an active principle.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of Being Religious
- An original faculty or endowment.
- 1828, Dugal Stewart, The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man
- those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering
- 1828, Dugal Stewart, The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man
Usage notes
- Principle ("moral rule"), as a noun, is often confused with principal, which can be an adjective ("most important") or a noun ("school principal"). A memory aid to avoid this confusion is: "The principal alphabetic principle places A before E".
Synonyms
- (moral rule or aspect): tenet
Derived terms
Related terms
- prince
- principal
- principality
Translations
Verb
principle (third-person singular simple present principles, present participle principling, simple past and past participle principled)
- (transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
- Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.
Further reading
- principle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- principle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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