Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S

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Senior (n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.

Senior (n.) An aged person; an older.

Senior (n.) One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

Seniority (n.) The quality or state of being senior.

Seniorize (v. i.) To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it.

Seniory (n.) Seniority.

Senna (n.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (C. acutifolia, C. angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.

Senna (n.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies.

Sennachy (n.) See Seannachie.

Sennet (n.) A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.

Sennet (n.) The barracuda.

Sennight (n.) The space of seven nights and days; a week.

Sennit (n.) A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

Sennit (n.) Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.

Senocular (a.) Having six eyes.

Senonian (a.) In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation.

Señor (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.

Señora (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.

Señorita (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.

Sens (adv.) Since.

Sensated (imp. & p. p.) of Sensate.

Sensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sensate.

Sensate (v. t.) To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

Sensate (a.) Alt. of Sensated.

Sensated (a.) Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.

Sensation (n.) [C] [+that] 感覺，知覺；[U] 感覺能力，知覺作用 An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.

Sensation (n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.

Sensation (n.) A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.

Sensational (a.) 引起轟動的；轟動社會的；感覺的；知覺的 Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

Sensational (a.) Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.

Sensational (a.) Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.

Sensational (a.) Causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion [ant: {unsensational}].

Sensational (a.) Commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance" [syn: {arresting}, {sensational}, {stunning}].

Sensational (a.) Relating to or concerned in sensation; "the sensory cortex"; "sensory organs" [syn: {sensational}, {sensory}].

Sensationalism (n.) 追求轟動效應；官能主義；追求轟動效應的題材；嘩眾取寵 The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

Sensationalism (n.) The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.

Sensationalism (n.) Subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes.

Sensationalism (n.) The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation" [syn: {sensationalism}, {luridness}].

Sensationalism (n.) (Philosophy) The ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good [syn: {sensualism}, {sensationalism}].

Sensationalism (n.) (Philosophy) The doctrine that knowledge derives from experience [syn: {empiricism}, {empiricist philosophy}, {sensationalism}].

Sensationalist (n.) 煽情作家；追求轟動效應的人 An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

Sensationalist (n.) One who practices sensational writing or speaking.

Sensationalist (n.) Someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention [syn: {sensationalist}, {ballyhoo artist}].

Sense (n.) (Physiol.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. -- Shak.

What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. -- Milton

The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. -- Keble.

Sense (n.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.

In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole. -- Bacon.

Sense (n.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation

This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. Sir P. Sidney.

High disdain from sense of injured merit. -- Milton.

Sense (n.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. "He speaks sense." -- Shak.

He raves; his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. -- Dryden.

Sense (n.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.

I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom. -- Roscommon.

The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens. -- Macaulay.

Sense (n.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. -- Neh. viii. 8.

I think 't was in another sense. -- Shak.

Sense (n.) Moral perception or appreciation.

Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. -- L' Estrange.

Sense (n.) (Geom.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.

Common sense, according to Sir W. Hamilton: (a) "The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions."

(b) "The faculty of first principles." These two are the philosophical significations.

(d) When the substantive is emphasized: "Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation."
Moral sense. See under Moral, (a) .

The inner sense, or The internal sense, Capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. "This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense." -- Locke.

Sense capsule (Anat.), One of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing.

Sense organ (Physiol.), A specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc.

Sense organule (Anat.), One of the modified epithelial cells in or near which the fibers of the sensory nerves terminate.

Syn: Understanding; reason.

Usage: Sense, Understanding, Reason. Some philosophers have given a technical signification to these terms, which may here be stated. Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states. In the first case it is called the outer, in the second the inner, sense.

Understanding is the logical faculty, i. e., the power of apprehending under general conceptions, or the power of classifying, arranging, and making deductions. Reason is the power of apprehending those first or fundamental truths or principles which are the conditions of all real and scientific knowledge, and which control the mind in all its processes of investigation and deduction. These distinctions are given, not as established, but simply because they often occur in writers of the present day.

Sensed (imp. & p. p.) of Sense.

Sensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sense.

Sense (v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him? -- Glanvill.

Sense (n.) A general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self".

Sense (n.) The meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted; "the dictionary gave several senses for the word"; "in the best sense charity is really a duty"; "the signifier is linked to the signified" [syn: sense, signified].

Sense (n.) The faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" [syn: sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty].

Sense (n.) Sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away" [syn: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit].

Sense (n.) A natural appreciation or ability; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing".

Sense (v.) Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car" [syn: feel, sense].

Sense (v.) Detect some circumstance or entity automatically; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization".

Sense (v.) Become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption" [syn: smell, smell out, sense].

Sense (v.) Comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter".

Sense, () A meaning of a word. (2007-05-03)

Senseful (a.) Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. [R.] "Senseful speech." --Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." -- Norris.

Senseless (a.) 失去知覺的，不省人事的；無感覺的；無知的；愚蠢的，笨的 Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. -- Shak.

The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. -- Shak.

The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. -- Rowe.

They were a senseless, stupid race. -- Swift.

They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late. -- Clarendon. -- Sense"less*ly, adv. -- Sense"less*ness, n.

Senseless (a.) Not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: mindless, reasonless, senseless].

Senseless (a.) Unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless" [syn: insensible, senseless].

Senseless (a.) Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted].

Senseless (a.) (Of especially persons) Lacking sense or understanding or judgment [syn: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless].

Sensibilities (n. pl. ) of Sensibility

Sensibility (n.) 感覺（力）[U] [（+to）]；敏感，善感 [U] [（+to）]；鑑賞力；識別力 [U] (Physiol.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

Sensibility (n.) The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural. "Sensibilities so fine!" -- Cowper.
The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. -- Burke.

His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. -- Marshall.
Sensibility (n.) Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

This adds greatly to my sensibility. -- Burke.
Sensibility (n.) That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.

Syn: Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste.

Sensibility (n.) Mental responsiveness and awareness [syn: sensibility, esthesia, aesthesia] [ant: insensibility].

Sensibility (n.) Refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility".

Sensibility (n.) (Physiology) Responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain" [syn: sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility].

Sensibility (n.) (C2) [ U ] （尤指藝術或社會活動方面的）鑒賞力，感受能力 An understanding of or ability to decide about what is good or valuable, especially in connection with artistic or social activities.

// Literary/ musical/ artistic/ theatrical/ aesthetic sensibility.

// The author has applied a modern sensibility (= way of understanding things) to the social ideals of an earlier age.

Sensibilities (n. pl.) 感情 Feelings.

// In a multicultural society we need to show respect for the sensibilities of others.

Sensible (a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.

Sensible (a.) Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.

Sensible (a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.

Sensible (a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.

Sensible (a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.

Sensible (a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.

Sensible (n.) Sensation; sensibility.

Sensible (n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.

Sensible (n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

Sensible (a.) (Good judgment) (B1) 理智的；明智的 Based on or acting on good judgment and practical ideas or understanding.

// A sensible answer/ approach/ compromise/ option.

// A sensible person.

// I think the sensible thing to do is call and ask for directions.

// It would be sensible to take an umbrella.

Sensible (a.) (Good judgment) （衣服或鞋）合適的，實用的 Sensible clothes or shoes are practical and suitable for the purpose they are needed for, rather than being attractive or fashionable.

// It could be cold and wet so pack some sensible clothes.

Sensible (a.) (Aware) (Formal) 意識到的；知道的；覺察到的 Having an understanding of a situation.

// He did not appear to be sensible of the difficulties that lay ahead.

Sensibleness (n.) The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.

Sensibleness (n.) Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.

Sensibly (adv.) In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.

Sensibly (adv.) With intelligence or good sense; judiciously.

Sensifacient (a.) Converting into sensation.

Sensiferous (a.) Exciting sensation; conveying sensation.

Sensific (a.) Exciting sensation.

Sensificatory (a.) Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; as, the sensificatory part of a nervous system.

Sensigenous (a.) Causing or exciting sensation.

Sensism (n.) Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3.

Sensist (n.) One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

Sensitive (a.) Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

Sensitive (a.) Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.

Sensitive (a.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.

Sensitive (a.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.

Sensitive (a.) Serving to affect the sense; sensible.

Sensitive (a.) Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

Sensitivity (n.) 容易感受的性質，敏感性，感受性；感度；（影）感光度 The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

Sensitivity reader (n.) [C] Someone who reads a book not yet published in order to check the content for anything that may offend certain groups of people.

Sensitization (n.) 感受性（作用），起敏感作用，過敏性；（影）感光度之增強，敏化 The action or process of sensitizing.

Sensitization (n.) The quality or state of being sensitized (as to an antigen).

Sensitization (n.) (Variants: also British Sensitisation)

Sensitization (n.) The action or process of making sensitive or hypersensitive.

// Allergic sensitization of the skin.

Sensitization (n.) The process of becoming sensitive or hypersensitive (as to an antigen); also : the resulting state.

Sensitization (n.) A form of nonassociative learning characterized by an increase in responsiveness upon repeated exposure to a stimulus—compare habituation 3.

Sensitize (v. t.) To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

Sensitizer (n.) An agent that sensitizes.

Sensitory (n.) See Sensory.

Sensive (a.) Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.

Sensor (a.) Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.

Sensorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.

Sensoriums (n. pl. ) of Sensorium.

Sensoria (n. pl. ) of Sensorium.

Sensorium (n.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.

Sensori-volitional (a.) Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition.

Sensories (n. pl. ) of Sensery.

Sensery (n.) Same as Sensorium.

Sensory (a.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

Sensual (a.) 官能的；肉體上的；肉感的，性感的；喜愛感官享受的；耽於酒色的；好色的，淫蕩的 Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.
Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. -- Bacon.

Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends. -- Pope.
Sensual (a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.

These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. -- Jude 19.
The greatest part of men are such as prefer . . . that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most divine. -- Hooker.
Sensual (a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.

No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein sensual men place their felicity. -- Atterbury.
Sensual (a.) Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.

Sensual (a.) Marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice" [syn: animal(a), carnal, fleshly, sensual].

Sensual (a.) Sexually exciting or gratifying; "sensual excesses"; "a sultry look"; "a sultry dance" [syn: sensual, sultry].

Sensualism (n.) [U] 耽於酒色，肉慾主義；【哲】感覺論 The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

Sensualism (n.) (Philos.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.

Sensualism (n.) (Ethics) The regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good. --Krauth-Fleming.

Sensualism (n.) Desire for sensual pleasures [syn: sensuality, sensualness, sensualism].

Sensualism (n.) (Philosophy) The ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good [syn: sensualism, sensationalism].

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