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senses
senses The faculties that enable animals to perceive information about their external environment or about the state of their bodies in relation to this environment (see
sense organ;
vision;
hearing;
balance;
olfaction;
taste;
touch). Specific
receptors are sensitive to pain, temperature, chemicals, etc.
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The senses.
Magazine article from: Science Weekly; 2/14/2007; 700+ words
; ...celled animals have simple senses. They can sense if their environment becomes...important? 4. Do animals have senses? 5. Which sense do you think is most important...students that each of the five senses has a sense organ to go with it--eyes...
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Senses Of Tradition: Continuity And Development In Catholic Faith. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...just as there are "senses of Scripture." The...identifies as the four senses of tradition. T. begins with the literal sense of tradition, which...book. With these two senses, "Dramatic Development...Dramatic Development" as a sense of tradition refers to...
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The senses -- windows or snares? (Metaphors in Action).
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...noses. Normally we speak of five senses, but the list sometimes gets longer...including an interior "proprioceptive" sense, the mind as a sense organ, and perhaps telepathic or precognitive senses as well. In the Western view, our...
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The senses windows or snares?
Magazine article from: et Cetera; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...noses. Normally we speak of five senses, but the list sometimes gets longer...including an interior "proprioceptive" sense, the mind as a sense organ, and perhaps telepathic or precognitive senses as well. In the Western view, our...
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Six Senses developing Evason property and Six Senses Spa at Ma'in Hot Springs Jordan
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 4/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...Evason property being developed by Six Senses Resorts & Spas. Set like an oasis in...This includes a new free-standing Six Senses Spa complex that will focus on the therapeutic...also feature an a la carte menu of Six Senses signature treatments including the renowned...
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SENSES PROMOTES EQUITY.(CAPITALAND RPT)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/25/2001; 700+ words
; ...Emergency Network for Social and Economic Security, or SENSES. Now 20 years old, SENSES strives to promote both economic equity and economic...Deutsch, who has served as executive director of SENSES for three years. ``These are people with real...
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Six Senses developing Evason property and Six Senses Spa at Ma'in Hot Springs Jordan.
News Wire article from: Albawaba.com; 4/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...Evason property being developed by Six Senses Resorts & Spas. Set like an oasis...This includes a new free-standing Six Senses Spa complex that will focus on the therapeutic...also feature an a la carte menu of Six Senses signature treatments including the renowned...
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SENSE Holdings, Inc. Reports Record Six Month Period; SENSE Holdings, Inc. Announces 400% Increase in Revenues and Narrows Loss.
PR Newswire; 8/20/2003; 700+ words
; SENSE HOLDINGS, INC. (BULLETIN BOARD: SEHO) (SENSE), a leading provider of biometrically secured authentication...2003. For the six month period ending June 30th, 2003, Sense reported record revenue of slightly greater than $ 271...
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SENSE Holdings, Inc. And LG Electronics To Show Iris Recognition, Time And Attendance And Access Control At Govsec 2003 In Washington D.C. SENSE Holdings, Inc. Exhibits With LG To Offer Custom Integrated Solutions To The Government Market.
PR Newswire; 7/21/2003; 700+ words
; SENSE HOLDINGS, INC. (BULLETIN BOARD: SEHO) (SENSE), a leading provider of biometrically secured authentication...Conference in Washington D.C July 23 and 24, 2003. The Sense BioClock(TM) will be showcased demonstrating the integration...
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Mediaspeak sense and sensibility. (fair comment).
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 2/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...he voiced the same sentiments today, odds are he'd no longer feel the emotion. He'd sense it as in: "I sense your pain." In mediaspeak, "sense" has edged out "clearly" as the overworked word of choice, although pols and pundits still...
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sense
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...x2022; v. [ tr. ] perceive by a sense or senses: with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days. ∎...words; sane: would any man in his senses invent so absurd a story? make sense be intelligible, justifiable...
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sense organs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
sense organs Our sensory...But the five main senses — sight...structures known as sense organs (the skin being...other animals have sense organs that can detect...confines of the human senses. Our wonderful vision...
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The Special Senses
Book article from: U*X*L Complete Health Resource
...DESIGN: PARTS OF THE SPECIAL SENSES The abilities to see, to hear...them. The receptors for the sense of sight are photoreceptors...light. The receptors for the sense of hearing are mechanoreceptors...vibrations. The receptors for the senses of smell and taste are chemoreceptors...
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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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