different between sense vs recognition
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.
sense From the web:
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recognition
English
Etymology
From Latin recognitionem (accusative of recognitio), from stem recognit, past participle of recognoscere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k???n???n/
Noun
recognition (usually uncountable, plural recognitions)
- The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).
- He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.
- Acceptance as valid or true.
- The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
- Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
- Honour, favourable note, or attention.
- The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
- (immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
- (Scotland, law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.
Derived terms
Related terms
- recognitive
- recognitory
Translations
See also
- recognition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- identification
- type approval
recognition From the web:
- what recognition means
- what recognition day is today
- what recognition month is may
- what recognition month is april
- what recognition month is june
- what recognition month is july
- what recognition means to you
- what recognition means to me
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