Usually means: Perception or awareness through stimuli.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sense: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sense: Merriam-Webster
  3. sense, sense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sense: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sense: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sense, sense: Wordnik
  8. sense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sense: Wiktionary
  10. sense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sense: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sense: Dictionary.com
  14. sense (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sense (Mr. Children album), Sense (The Lightning Seeds album), Sense (band), Sense (disambiguation), Sense (electronics), Sense (molecular biology), Sense (programming), Sense (river), Sense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sense: Rhymezone
  20. sense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SENSE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. sense: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sense: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. sense: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sense: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Sense: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sense: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sense: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. sense: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sense: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sense: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Sense (molecular biology), sense: Medical dictionary
  6. Sense: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SENSE: Acronym Finder
  3. sense: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sense: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. sense, sense: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sensed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
noun:  Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
noun:  Sound practical or moral judgment.
noun:  The meaning, reason, or value of something.
noun:  Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
noun:  (semantics, lexicography) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.
noun:  A natural appreciation or ability.
noun:  (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
noun:  (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
noun:  (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
noun:  (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
noun:  A word sense, one of the meanings of a word.
verb:  To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
verb:  To instinctively be aware.
verb:  To comprehend.

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