sense

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
2. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
3. Sound practical or moral judgment.
4. The meaning, reason, or value of something.
5. The meaning, reason, or value of something.
6. The meaning, reason, or value of something.
7. A natural appreciation or ability.
8. The way that a referent is presented.
9. One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
10. One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
11. referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

Verb

1. To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
2. To instinctively be aware.
3. To comprehend.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/sɛn(t)s/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”); partly from Latin sēnsus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“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"; whence also Dutch zin, German Sinn, Swedish sinne, Norwegian sinn). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).