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Tensed vs Sensed - What's the difference?

tensed | sensed |

As verbs the difference between tensed and sensed

is that tensed is (tense) while sensed is (sense).

tensed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tense)

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    tense

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tens (modern French temps), from (etyl) tempus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
    • The basic tenses in English are present, past and future.
    Derived terms
    * tensal

    Verb

    (tens)
  • (grammar) To apply a tense to.
    • tensing a verb

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tensus, past participle of .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
    • You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense .
  • Pulled taut, without any slack.
    • Derived terms
    * hypertense

    Verb

    (tens)
  • To make or become tense.

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    sensed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sense)

    • 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)

    Related terms

    * sensation * sensible * sensitive * sensual * sensuous * sensor

    See also

    * business sense * common sense * sixth sense * sight / vision * hearing / audition * taste / gustation * smell / olfaction * touch / tactition * thermoception * nociception * equilibrioception * proprioception

    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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