Sense vs Information - What's the difference?

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Sense is a related term of information.

As an adjective sense

is sensible, rational.

As a noun information is

information.

sense

English

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.

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* sense of smell (see olfaction) * (l)

Verb

(sens)

To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.

To instinctively be aware.

She immediately sensed her disdain.

To comprehend.

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information

English

Noun

(en-noun)

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

I need some more information about this issue.

The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

For your information , I did this because I wanted to.

(legal) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.

(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

(Christianity) Divine inspiration.

(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the .

A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.

As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data.

And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information .

(computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

Usage notes

* The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession that should be adhering to it.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/]

Derived terms

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