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单词 sixth sense
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sense /sens/

noun
  1. Faculty of receiving sensation, general or particular
  2. Subjective consciousness
  3. Inward feeling
  4. Impression
  5. Opinion
  6. Mental attitude
  7. Discernment
  8. Understanding
  9. Appreciation
  10. Feeling for what is appropriate
  11. Discerning feeling for things of some particular kind
  12. (usu in pl) one's wits or reason
  13. Soundness of judgement
  14. Reasonableness
  15. Sensible or reasonable discourse
  16. That which is reasonable
  17. Plain matter of fact
  18. The realm of sensation and sensual appetite
  19. A sense-organ (Shakespeare)
  20. A meaning, esp any of a range of meanings that a word or phrase may convey
  21. Interpretation
  22. Purport
  23. Gist
  24. Direction (esp in geometry, after Fr sens)
adjective

Relating to a sense or senses

transitive verb
  1. To have a sensation, feeling, or appreciation of
  2. To appreciate, grasp, comprehend
  3. To become aware (that)
  4. (of computers) to detect (eg a hole, constituting a symbol, in punched card or tape)
ORIGIN: L sensus, from sentīre to feel

sensed adjective

Having meaning of a specified kind, etc

senseˈful adjective

  1. Significant
  2. Full of good sense

senseˈless adjective

  1. Unconscious
  2. Without good sense
  3. Meaningless

senseˈlessly adverb

senseˈlessness noun

senˈsing noun and adjective

senˈsism noun (philosophy)

Sensationalism

senˈsist noun

sense datum noun

What is received immediately through the stimulation of a sense organ (also called sensum /senˈsəm/; pl senˈsa)

sense organ noun

A structure specially adapted for the reception of stimuli, such as eye, ear and nose

sense perception noun

Perception by the senses

bring someone to his or her senses

  1. To make someone recognize the facts
  2. To let someone understand that his or her behaviour must be mended

come to one's senses

  1. To regain consciousness
  2. To start behaving sensibly (again)

common sense see under common

five senses

The senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch

in a sense

  1. In a sense other than the obvious one
  2. In a way
  3. After a fashion

in or out of one's (right) senses

In or out of one's normal rational condition

make sense

To be understandable, sensible or rational

make sense of

  1. To understand
  2. To see the purpose in, or explanation of

sixth sense

An ability to perceive what lies beyond the powers of the five senses

take leave of one's senses

To go mad, start behaving unreasonably or irrationally

six /siks/

noun
  1. The cardinal number next above five
  2. A symbol representing that number (6, vi, etc)
  3. A set of six things or people (syllables, leaves, rowers, etc)
  4. A score of six points, strokes, tricks, etc
  5. An article of a size denoted by 6
  6. A playing card with six pips
  7. A six-cylinder engine or car
  8. A division of a Brownie Guide or Cub Scout pack
  9. The sixth hour after midnight or midday
  10. The age of six years
adjective
  1. Of the number six
  2. Six years old
ORIGIN: OE siex; Ger sechs; Gaelic sè; L sex, Gr hex, Sans ṣaṣ

sixˈer noun

  1. Anything counting for six or indicated by six
  2. The leader of a Brownie Guide or Cub Scout six

sixˈfold adjective and adverb

  1. In six divisions
  2. Six times as much

sixth adjective

  1. Last of six
  2. Next after the fifth
  3. Equal to one of six equal parts
noun
  1. A sixth part
  2. A person or thing in sixth position
  3. An interval of five (conventionally called six) diatonic degrees (music)
  4. A combination of two tones separated by such an interval (music)

sixthˈly adverb

In the sixth place

sixˈ-day adjective

Of or for six days (ie usu excluding Sunday)

sixˈ-foot adjective

Measuring six feet

sixˈ-footˈer noun

A person six feet tall

sixˈ-gun noun

A six-shooter

Six Nations plural noun

A more recent grouping of N American peoples, comprising the Five Nations (qv) and the Tuscaroras

sixˈ-pack noun

  1. A pack which comprises six items sold as one unit, esp a pack of six cans of beer
  2. A set of well-defined abdominal muscles (informal)

sixˈpence noun

  1. A coin worth six old pence
  2. Its value

sixˈpenny adjective

  1. Costing or worth sixpence
  2. Cheap
  3. Worthless

noun

Formerly, a sixpenny book

sixˈscore noun and adjective

sixˈ-shooter noun

A six-chambered revolver

sixth form noun

(the classes studying in) the (usu) two years of preparation for A-level examinations in England or, in Scotland, the one year of preparation for higher level examinations and sixth-year studies

sixthˈ-form college noun

A school which provides the sixth-form education for the pupils of an area

sixthˈ-former noun

sixth sense see sense

at sixes and sevens

In disorder

hit or knock for six

  1. To overcome completely
  2. To take by surprise

long or short sixes

Candles weighing six to the pound, about 8 or 4 inches long respectively

six (of one) and half a dozen (of the other)

  1. Equal, attributable to both parties equally
  2. Having alternatives which are considered equivalent, equally acceptable, etc

six of the best (informal)

  1. Six strokes of the cane as a punishment, or a beating generally
  2. Also in extended reference to a choice of six things

the Six Counties

Northern Ireland
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