Noun

(en noun)

One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Stephen Ledoux, volume=100, issue=1, page=60, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Behaviorism at 100 , passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists' have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural ' scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Karen McVeigh

, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= US rules human genes can't be patented , passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}

Noun

(en noun)

(senseid) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)

What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.

(senseid)Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

a sense of security

* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Philip Sidney)

this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)

high disdain from sense of injured merit

(senseid)Sound practical or moral judgment.

It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (w, L'Estrange)

Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.

(senseid)The meaning, reason, or value of something.

You don’t make any sense .

the true sense of words or phrases

* Bible, Neh. viii. 8

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense .

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)

I think 'twas in another sense .

(senseid)A natural appreciation or ability.

A keen musical sense

(senseid)(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.

(senseid)(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.

(senseid) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.