What's the difference between feel and sensible?

Feel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.
  • (v. t.) To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
  • (v. t.) To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.
  • (v. t.) To perceive; to observe.
  • (v. i.) To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.
  • (v. i.) To have the sensibilities moved or affected.
  • (v. i.) To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.
  • (v. i.) To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.
  • (v. i.) To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.
  • (n.) Feeling; perception.
  • (n.) A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (3) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
  • (4) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (7) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
  • (8) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
  • (9) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (10) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (11) The role of the therapist's own depressive feelings when working with this type of families is considered.
  • (12) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (13) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
  • (14) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
  • (15) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
  • (16) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
  • (17) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
  • (18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (19) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (20) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.

Sensible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.
  • (a.) Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.
  • (a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
  • (a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
  • (a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
  • (a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
  • (n.) Sensation; sensibility.
  • (n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.
  • (n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (2) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
  • (3) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
  • (4) "Do I think it would be sensible for Liberal Democrats to bail out of a five-year plan at the very hardest point after a year?
  • (5) For tactile modalities, a lesion of the spinothalamic complex causes minimal or no defects and a lesion of the posterior columns causes only slight defects, whereas a lesion of both pathways gives rise to total loss of tactile and pressure sensibility in the part of the body served by both pathways.
  • (6) These include persisting HSVI of only the distal sensible or vegetative neurones and recurrence of infection with further destruction of ganglia-cells.
  • (7) Finally, any sensible person must be aware that Labour will find it impossible to govern if it attempts to ignore the national demand for a referendum.
  • (8) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
  • (9) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
  • (10) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
  • (11) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
  • (12) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
  • (13) You cannot hold up a picture of someone being electronically spied on; even worse, you cannot illustrate the psychic damage and cowed sensibilities that come with the fear of being spied on.
  • (14) I'm concerned, because it opens the door to all sorts of people with opinions that aren't sensible.
  • (15) More prosaically, but sensibly, the publishing division, which includes all of the company's newspaper titles, will retain the News Corp name when the company's separation occurs in July.
  • (16) Although there are some circumstances in which it is sensible to privatise, there are many good reasons why wholesale privatisation should be shunned .
  • (17) I would suggest that the effect on living standards which is so reasonably desired, and which might be expected to reduce the number of small-for-dates babies, is more likely to be accomplished by a sensible sterilization campaign rather than the potentially damaging short-term solution of termination of pregnancy in young women.
  • (18) Multiple immediate tendon transfers and primary nerve grafting provided for finger flexion and extension plus functional sensibility in this first reported case of an elective cross-hand microvascular transfer.
  • (19) Within a year, protective sensibility was restored in the replanted hand, but intrinsic muscles were paralysed.
  • (20) Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, told Sky’s Murnaghan programme that it would be sensible for Corbyn to let MPs vote freely.