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SENSE
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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SENSE. A term whose meanings range from physical faculties (such as
the sense of sight) through analogous faculties of mind or spirit (
a sense of humour), intelligence (
Show some sense!), and what is logical and proper (the opposite of
nonsense) to
MEANING (
the sense of a text) and the idea that many words have submeanings (
X used in the sense of Y;
the various senses of the word ‘mark’). Although people agree that words may have different ‘senses’, there is no agreed means of establishing just how many senses many
polysemous (many-sensed) words have. The boundaries between senses are not always clear: a sense may be precise and restricted or vague and diffuse, and may be susceptible to analysis into more or less easily delineated
subsenses. Identifying a sense may depend on knowledge and experience, social and situational context, the reason for analysing a word, the policy used by compilers of a particular dictionary, the method of displaying words in that dictionary, the amount of detail to be provided, and different theories about what words are and of how they should be discussed and defined. As the accompanying table shows, dictionaries can differ considerably as to the main sense divisions of such words as
walk and
crane.
Dictionary | Number of senses of: |
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| walk | | crane | |
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| noun | verb | noun | verb |
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CoED (1986) | 15 | 11 | 4 | 3 |
LDEL (1984) | 5 | 12 | 3 | 2 |
AHD (1985) | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
ChED (1988) | 25 | 20 | 4 | 4 |
Key: CoED Collins English Dictionary, LDEL Longman Dictionary of the English Language, AHD American Heritage Dictionary, ChED Chambers English Dictionary. |
See
HOMONYM,
POLYSEMY.
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Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
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Common Sense
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
COMMON SENSE. The common-sense philosophers of the Scottish school — including Thomas...maintain propositions the reverse of the primary truths of common sense, doth not imply a contradiction, it only implies insanity" ( The...
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SENSE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...submeanings ( X used in the sense of Y ; the various senses of the word ‘...boundaries between senses are not always clear: a sense may be precise and...considerably as to the main sense divisions of such...Dictionary Number of senses of: walk crane noun...
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