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  • 31sense — [sens] n. [Fr sens < L sensus < sentire, to feel, perceive: see SEND1] 1. the ability of the nerves and the brain to receive and react to stimuli, as light, sound, impact, constriction, etc.; specif., any of five faculties of receiving… …

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  • 32sense — ► NOUN 1) any of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch, by which the body perceives an external stimulus. 2) a feeling that something is the case. 3) (sense of) awareness or appreciation of or sensitivity to: a sense of… …

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  • 33sense — [n1] feeling of animate being faculty, feel, function, hearing, impression, kinesthesia, sensation, sensibility, sensitivity, sight, smell, taste, touch; concept 405 sense [n2] awareness, perception ability, appreciation, atmosphere, aura, brains …

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  • 34sense organ — n a bodily structure that receives a stimulus (as heat or sound waves) and is affected in such a manner as to initiate a wave of excitation in associated sensory nerve fibers which convey specific impulses to the central nervous system where they …

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  • 35sense perception — n. perception by sight, touch, etc …

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  • 36You and Your Sense of Touch — You (série) Pour les articles homonymes, voir You. You... (Toi...) est une série de court métrages d animation à but pédagogique, produite dans les années 1950 par les Walt Disney Productions. Cette série était présentée dans l émission de… …

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  • 37touch — 1. The sense by which slight contact with the skin or mucous membrane is appreciated. SYN: tactile sense. 2. Digital examination. [Fr. toucher] royal t. a touching of a patient by the king, which was thought to be cu …

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  • 38Sense — In biology and medicine, the faculty of sensory reception. The ability to convey specific types of external or internal stimuli to the brain and perceive them. Sensory reception occurs through a process known as transduction in which stimuli are… …

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  • 39touch — Synonyms and related words: ESP, Roman candle, ability, abut, access, adjoin, adroitness, affect, aid to navigation, alarm, alight, allegory, allude to, allusion, amber light, amount to, answer, answer to, appertain to, apply, apply to, apprehend …

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  • 40sense — /sens/, n., v., sensed, sensing. n. 1. any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body. 2. these faculties collectively. 3. their operation… …

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