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A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of...

Perfect Sense is a 2011 science fiction romantic drama film directed by David Mackenzie, written by Kim Fupz Aakeson and starring Eva Green and Ewan McGregor...

Stop Making Sense is an independently produced 1984 American concert film featuring a live performance by the American rock band Talking Heads. The film...

Retrieved 7 November 2014. Etymology unknown. Usually supposed to be a transferred sense of BUG n.1; but this is merely a conjecture, without actual evidence...

verb is first attested in 1809; the transferred sense of "to tidy (oneself) up" is from 1843; and the figurative sense of "to prepare a candidate" is from...

*ex-curtus. With the specialized sense of 'pebble'. With the transferred sense of 'sword-lily'. With the transferred sense of 'care (for)' and 'pay attention'...

Transferred intent (or transferred mens rea, or transferred malice, in English law) is a legal doctrine that holds that, when the intention to harm one...

"a threshold; the head-piece or foot-piece of a doorway," and in a transferred sense, "a house", "dwelling", or "abode." The Latin preposition ad means...

momento in Medieval Italy, the place the early translators lived, in a transferred sense meant both a "moment of time" and a "moment of weight" (a small amount...

Rentenaar concludes that "Duyvil" means "devil", either literally or in a transferred sense, but he could not determine what the intended meaning of "Spuyten"...

is the diminutive of the Polish word for "milk" – mleko – and in a transferred sense is used to describe any whitish, viscous liquid. People with the name...

In linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word. For example, a dictionary may have over 50 different senses of the word "play", each of...

Word-sense disambiguation is the process of identifying which sense of a word is meant in a sentence or other segment of context. In human language processing...

metal rim that holds the gem in a finger ring. The term is used in a transferred sense by horologists to denote the ring that secures the glass in a watch...

A transfer tax is a tax on the passing of title to property from one person (or entity) to another. In a narrow legal sense, a transfer tax is essentially...

name origin is uncertain. 'The hare grove', 'hoar grove' or in a transferred sense of Old English 'har', 'boundary grove' which it could potentially...

The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived. The sense of smell has many functions, including...

Proprioception (/ˌproʊpri.oʊˈsɛpʃən, -ə-/ PROH-pree-oh-SEP-shən, -⁠ə-) is the sense of self-movement, force, and body position. Proprioception is mediated by...

oxidation–reduction (redox) reaction. In the second sense, an oxidizing agent is a chemical species that transfers electronegative atoms, usually oxygen, to a...

the sense of 'looking well' often referring to a healthy plumpness. In Derby, Leicester and Nottingham, there still also exists a transferred sense of...