(v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
(v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
(v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
(v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
(v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
(v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
(v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.
(v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
(v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
Example Sentences:
(1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(3) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(4) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(5) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
(6) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
(7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(8) The narX gene product may be involved in sensing nitrate and phosphorylating NARL.
(9) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
(10) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
(11) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(12) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(13) The anticoagulant therapy undertaken by the patient appears to be of some benefit in the sense that no recurrence of thrombotic manifestations occurred.
(14) The results showed that measles virus produced three size classes of plus-sense N-containing RNA species corresponding to monocistronic N RNA, bicistronic NP RNA, and antigenomes.
(15) In this sense synapse formation must be considered a drawn out affair.
(16) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
(17) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
(18) Stimulation threshold, sensing, and resistance measurements from both leads were comparable.
(19) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.
Tactual
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the distractor was an auditory arithmetic task, no difference emerged between the two hands for the retention of touches to the fingers; however, when the distractor was a tactual maze task executed by the right hand, asymmetry in favor of the left hand was observed.
(2) Results of the experiments indicated that aging is associated with decline in tactual discrimination ability.
(3) Errors in drawing the letters after tactual exposure and naming training showed that subjects had no accurate idea of the spatial relations or configuration of the dot patterns.
(4) A stepwise discriminant analysis procedure revealed an experimental form of the TMT (part X), Tactual Performance Test total time, and Tactual Performance Test localization to be the most sensitive measures.
(5) Experiments I and II showed no deficit in tactual perception nor in the inter-hemispheric transfer of tactual information.
(6) This paper describes a research program conducted to determine the feasibility of providing useful angular onset-motion information via a broad-area tactual seat-pan display.
(7) Comparison of tactually aided versus unaided tracking rates for two subjects with long-term experience shows continuing improvement with additional experience with the device.
(8) Significant interactional effects were observed between age, amount of alcohol consumed and sex for Tactual Performance Test total time.
(9) The tactile discrimination ability of visually deprived and normal monkeys was tested to study whether loss of vision would improve the utilization of the tactual sense.
(10) The hypothesis that letters can be matched on the basis of tactual physical features was tested in three experiments with blind Braille-reading children.
(11) In most cases with these subjects, performance on simple detection and discrimination tasks showed facilitative effects with tactual vocoders.
(12) 14 reflective and 14 impulsive boys performed tactual matching tasks in which frequency of observation of the standard was manipulated by successive or simultaneous presentation and in which stimulus features were controlled so that the amount of stimulus analysis carried out might be inferred.
(13) The goal of the current study was to demonstrate improvements to speech reception through Tadoma through the use of supplementary tactual information, thus leading to a new standard of performance in the tactual domain.
(14) were tested on their ability to learn letter names of Braille configurations presented visually or tactually and to Morse Code signals presented aurally.
(15) Thyroidectomized cats display a dissociation of the appetitive and consummatory components of grooming behavior when the body surface is tactually stimulated, an abnormal behavior that also occurs in cats with pontile or frontal neocortical lesions.
(16) The tactual ratings of all four attributes evaluated by touch and sight and touch were significantly correlated.
(17) A sample of 33 dyslexic and 33 control children were compared on tasks involving visual matching with spatial transformation (VMST), tactual serial matching (TSM), visual sequential memory (VSM), and auditory sequential memory (ASM).
(18) Although the subjects' stimulations were unaffected by looking at the gestures, the tactual stimulus elicited a tickle sensation.
(19) 40 10-month-old infants were given 2 min to explore tactually an object in a totally darkened room.
(20) Two experiments are presented which demonstrate asymmetrical transfer for tactual recognition of individual braille letters in sighted subjects, a task usually associated with right hemisphere specialization.