| 单词 | external sense |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexternal sense a. Originally: any of the faculties of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch; any of the five senses; †an organ of sense (obsolete); (in plural sometimes) these faculties collectively as opposed to the intellect, spirit, etc. In later use more generally: any of the faculties by which external or internal stimuli are perceived, involving the transmission of nerve impulses from specialized neurons (receptors) to the brain. Occasionally with preceding modifying adjective, as outward sense, external sense. Also with of-phrase specifying the faculty, as sense of hearing.In addition to the traditional five senses, the faculties perceiving temperature, pressure, body position and movement, and pain are now usually regarded as senses. Certain animals possess senses absent in humans, such as the faculty of perceiving electromagnetic fields or water pressure.special sense: see special adj., adv., and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > [noun] windowc1230 organala1500 sense?1504 sensator1615 sensory1624 sensitory1649 sensatory1673 sense organ1826 sensoriolum1843 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > faculty of sensation > a sense witOE sensibility?a1425 sense?1504 sensation1657 ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. lix. sig. Pii He wyl also apere forth warde and haue the syght and experiens of many thynges by his outwarde senses. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bviiv Wyssheth that he neuer had hadde eyes to se..nother eares to here..ne other senses to haue knowen [etc.]. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 33 To the hede wyth the yes yerys & other sensys therin. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) iv. ii. 158 Mine Eyes, mine Eares, or any Sence. 1647 A. Cowley Mistresse 14 My Reason strait did to my Senses shew, That they might be mistaken too. 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle i. 5 I must have the evidence of more senses than one to confirm me of its truth. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. ii. 56 The only defect of our senses is, that they give us disproportion'd images of things. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 62 My sense of hearing is painfully acute. 1808 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 72 Farmers..have the external senses in sufficient perfection to perceive the advantages of a comfortable habitation. 1841 R. W. Emerson Prudence in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 224 The world of the senses is a world of shows. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. vi. 206 A return towards the life of the senses and the understanding. 1875 Old & New Feb. 227/1 She lost her senses by scarlet-fever so early, that she has no recollections of any exercise of them. 1904 Sci. Amer. 9 Jan. 31/3 The snail has a good sense of smell. 1933 R. C. Hutchinson Unforgotten Prisoner vii. 168 He stood with all his senses keyed to catch the slightest sound or motion. 1986 New Scientist 15 May 70/2 Everyone at the scene experienced the same sensation of incredulity: a strong urge to deny the evidence of their senses. 2002 Guardian 26 Aug. i. 8/8 Sharks have natural electrodetectors on their heads to provide an extra sense. < as lemmas |
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