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cents (SENS) (noun)
Monetary units or coins worth 1/100th. of the basic value, sometimes used in an expression equating words with money: Jaime is always ready to offer his two cents worth on any topic, whether he knows anything about it or not.
cense (SENS) (verb)
To distribute an odor or perfume by using a special container: When a priest uses a censer it is to cense the church, filling it with the odor of the incense being burned.
scents (SENS) (noun)
Particular odors or smells, typically pleasant but not necessarily: On Faye's dresser were several bottles of scents which she used depending on her mood.
sense (SENS) (noun)
Awareness of rationality or meaning; agreement: After the teacher explained the equation, it all made sense to Ada.
Natasha had a few cents in her pocket which her common sense told her that she should spend on food, but she really wanted to purchase some fresh incense which she could burn to cense her apartment and to replace some of the unpleasant scents from the restaurant kitchen downstairs.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group C; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and recognized, including hearing, seeing, smelling, touching, tasting, and balancing, all of which receive impressions through specific bodily organs and the nerves associated with them: The olfactory nerves are used in the sense of smelling, while the sense of touch is considered to be a tactile sense.
The bodily senses provide information about one's environment and about the body's internal existence, all of which are collected and transported to the central nervous system, including the brain and the spinal cord.
The faculties or senses by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and recognized by parts of the body are explained in the following:
The Five Senses Explained in Greater Detail
- Touch: The skin contains nerve endings that send messages to the brain and determine degrees of pressure, cold, warmth, and pain.
- Taste: The tongue is estimated to contain more than 10,000 taste buds which indicate chemicals in food and drink.
A baby is born with taste buds all over its mouth, but they slowly disappear. Taste buds are usually renewed on a weekly basis.
- Smell: The nose provides smells by sensing chemicals in the air.
A person can identify 2,000-4,000 different smells which are processed by the same part of the brain that deals with emotions and memories.
- Hearing: Sound vibrations trigger a chain of movements in the skull or head.
The ears can detect 1,500 different tones, 350 degrees of loudness, and they can gauge the direction of a sound within three degrees.
- Sight: Light is perceived by the eyes and focused to form images.
With normal vision, humans can see a lighted candle 1 mile (1.6 km) away.
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senso-, sens-, sensi-, sensori-, sent-
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sense (verb), senses; sensed; sensing
1. To receive information from one's surroundings through the body's nerves and other physical organs: Sitting quietly by the side of the river, Melony was able to sense the change in the wind and decided she should go home before it started to rain.
3. Etymology: from Latin sensus, "feeling, perception"; from sens-, past participle stem of sentire, "to feel".
While Mark was walking home from the bus, he sensed a movement behind him which happened to be his daughter who was trying to catch up with him after getting off a different bus.
2. To detect and to identify a change in something: The store's device at the back senses when the door is opened at night and sounds the alarm.3. Etymology: from Latin sensus, "feeling, perception"; from sens-, past participle stem of sentire, "to feel".
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senso-, sens-, sensi-, sensori-, sent-
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algesi-, alge-, alges-, algesio-, algi-, algio-, -algesia, -algesic, -algetic, -algic, -algia, -algy
(Greek: pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting)
(Greek: slow, slowness; delayed, tardy; a prefix used in the sense of being "abnormally slow")
(Greek: hollow; abdomen; hernia; used primarily in the sense of concave; pertaining to a bodily cavity)
(Greek: khorde, "gut string" [of a lyre]; used in an extended sense to mean "sinew, flexible rod-shaped organ, string, cord"; Latin: chorda, "related notes in music, string of a musical instrument, cat-gut" via Old French, corde, "rope, string, twist, cord")
(Latin: talk, speak, say; to put into quick motion, to excite, to provoke, to call urgently; to summon, to summon forth, to arouse, to stimulate; used in the sense of "stimulating")
(Greek > Latin: bars, lattice, grate; used in the sense of "lattice[d], latticelike")
(Greek: bed; slope, slant; to lean, leaning; an ecological term; in the sense of a slope or gradient)
(Greek: glue; used in the sense of "pertaining to a colloid, a gelatinous [gluelike] substance in which particle matter is suspended")
(Greek: crowlike; used in the specialized sense of "pertaining to, or connected to the coracoid, the bony process that forms part of the scapular arch [and is so named because its shape resembles that of a crow's beak"])
(Greek: ring; used in the extended sense of pertaining to the [ring-shaped] cartilage that forms the back and lower part of the laryngeal cavity)
(Greek > Latin: roller, roller-shaped figure; used in the sense of being "roller-shaped, column-shaped")
(Greek: cells, cell, hollow; used primarily in the extended sense of "animal or plant cells" [because cells were originally thought to be hollow])
(Greek > Latin: disk; round plate thrown in athletic competitions; used primarily in the extended sense of "something shaped like a round plate")
(Greek: house, household affairs [environment, habitat], home, dwelling; used in one extensive sense as, "environment")
(Latin: band, bandage; bundle, bunch; used in the extended sense of "pertaining to the fascia", a band or sheet of fibrous tissue providing a subcutaneous covering for various parts of the body)
(Latin: helmet, helmet shaped, to cover with a helmet; cap; used primarily in zoology and botany with phases of sense development that seem to have been: weasel, weasel's skin or hide, leather, and then a helmet made of leather; by extension, it also means "cat, cats" in some words)
(Latin: a round body, a ball; round, a sphere; the earth; "sphere" came from Latin globus, "round mass, sphere"; related to gleba, "clod, soil, land". Sense of "planet earth," or a three-dimensional map of it, appeared first in 1553)
(Greek: sweet; used in the specialized sense of "sweet, syrupy liquid")
(Latin: protruded viscus; rupture; in the sense of "protrusion of tissue or part of an organ through an abnormal opening in the surrounding walls")
(Greek: tissue [web]; beam or warp of a loom; hence, that which is woven; a web or tissue; used in the sense of pertaining to [body] tissue)
(Greek: even, level, smooth; used in the sense of "flat" or "plane")
(Greek: fluid [distinct from blood] that flows through the veins of the gods; by extension, "watery part of blood or milk," used in the sense of "thin, serous or sanious fluid, especially from a wound or sore")
(Greek: thin, small, fine, delicate, mild; from "peeled, husked"; used primarily in the sense of "abnormally thin, narrow, slender, or delicate")
(Greek: breast; used in the specialized sense as "of or pertaining to the breast-shaped mastoid process of the temporal bone)
(Greek: mind, intellect; the reason; common sense)
(Latin: to smell; pertaining to the sense of smell; scent; to cause to smell at)
(Greek > Latin > French: the tree Olea europaea, used in its etymological sense)
(Greek: egg or eggs; used in an extended sense as the ovum)
(Greek: to smell; pertaining to odor or to the sense of smell)
(Greek: to smell; stink; generally used in a bad sense)
(Greek: a "peak", but used by ecologists in the restricted sense of "foothill")
(Latin: marked with the palm of the hand; adorned with palm leaves; used primarily in the sense of "having five lobes that diverge from a common center" [as fingers from an open palm])
(Greek: papyros > Latin > Old French; papyrus, an Egyptian rush [a reed plant] from which material was made for writing or drawing. Used in the sense of "fibrous material on which to write or to draw"; paper)
(Latin: wall [of a house], walls; used in the extended sense of "the walls of a cavity or organ of the body")
(Latin: appearing as if, as it were, as though; somewhat like, resembling, seemingly; simulating; in a certain sense or degree)
(possibly knowing less but understanding more; utilizing common sense to an uncommon degree)
(Latin: at length; in the sense of "lengthwise, one behind the other")
(Latin: animating, enlivening; vigorous, vigor, active; to be alive, activity, to quicken; then a quickening action of growing; a specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb, or root" is first recorded in 1767; the differences between the meanings from its original links with "life, liveliness" was completed in the early twentieth century, when vegetable came to be used for an "inactive person".)
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“sense”
1. Sound and practical judgment that is separate from specialized knowledge, training, etc.: Mike had common sense when he worked as a carpenter.
2. Practical judgment derived from experience rather than just from study alone: Marie used common sense when she went hiking during the summer by always carrying a bottle of water with her.
2. Practical judgment derived from experience rather than just from study alone: Marie used common sense when she went hiking during the summer by always carrying a bottle of water with her.
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commu-, comm-
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Quotes: Wisdom
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senso-, sens-, sensi-, sensori-, sent-
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The sensation of the movements of muscles that are felt while they are contracting: While using the specialized gym equipment, Lawrence experienced the kinesthetic senses of his muscles stretching and contracting.
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aesth-, esth-, aesthe-, esthe-, aesthesio-, esthesio-, aesthesia-, -esthesia, -aesthetic, -esthetic, -aesthetical, -esthetical, -aesthetically, -esthetically
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kine-, kin-, kino-, kinesio-, kinesi-, kineto-, kinet-, -kinesia, -kinesis, -kinetic, -kinesias, -kineses, -kinetical, -kinetically
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sense of balance, sense-of-balance
A sensory system is located in the structures of the inner ears which determines the orientation of the head or a condition of the bodily balance, maintained primarily by special receptors in the inner ear.
Sensory balance is the result of a number of body systems working together; specifically, in order to achieve balance the eyes (visual system), ears (vestibular system) and the body's sense of where it is in space (proprioception or the unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself); all of which need to be intact and normally coordinated.
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libra-, liber-, libri-
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A specialized bodily structure where neurons are concentrated and which functions as a receptor: The eyes, ears, tongue, nose, and skin are well-known sense organs.
The sense organs are used to gain information about the surroundings: There are many small sense organs in the skin, including pain, temperature, and pressure sensors, that contribute to the sense of touch.
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senso-, sens-, sensi-, sensori-, sent-
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thermic sense, temperature sense
1. The network of sense organs and connecting pathways that allow differences in temperature changes.
2. The sense by which differences of temperature are distinguished by thermoreceptors or bodily sense receptors that respond to stimulations of heat and cold temperatures.
3. The capability of perceiving cold and warmth, and so being aware of the differences in the temperatures of external objects.
2. The sense by which differences of temperature are distinguished by thermoreceptors or bodily sense receptors that respond to stimulations of heat and cold temperatures.
3. The capability of perceiving cold and warmth, and so being aware of the differences in the temperatures of external objects.
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thermo-, therm-, thermi-, -thermia, -therm, -thermal, -thermic, -thermias, -thermies, -thermous, -thermy
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