Sense vs Understand - What's the difference?
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(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)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)
(senseid)Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Philip Sidney)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)
(senseid)Sound practical or moral judgment.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (w, L'Estrange)
(senseid)The meaning, reason, or value of something.
* Bible, Neh. viii. 8
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)
(senseid)A natural appreciation or ability.
(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.
To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
To instinctively be aware.
To comprehend.
(lb) To be aware of the meaning of.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I understand not what you mean by this.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
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:In this sense, the word is usually used in the past participle:
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*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
To stand under; to support.
:(Shakespeare)
As verbs the difference between sense and understand
is that sense is to use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel while understand is to be aware of the meaning of.As a noun sense
is (manner to perceive) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.sense
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
- What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
- a sense of security
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
- high disdain from sense of injured merit
- It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
- You don’t make any sense .
- the true sense of words or phrases
- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense .
- I think 'twas in another sense .
- A keen musical sense
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* sense of smell (see olfaction) * (l)See also
* business sense * common sense * sixth sense * sight / vision * hearing / audition * taste / gustation * smell / olfaction * touch / tactition * thermoception * nociception * equilibrioception * proprioceptionVerb
(sens)- She immediately sensed her disdain.
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* ----understand
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Alternative forms
* understaund (obsolete)Verb
Sam Leith
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citation, passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.