Senses

Definition

sense /sens/ n ၁။ [C] အာ႐ံု(အျမင္၊ အၾကား၊ အနံ႔၊ အရသာ၊ အေတြ႕အထိ)။ the five senses ❍ lose one's sense of smell ❍ have a keen sense of hearing ❍ sense-organs (eg the nose, the eye, the ear, the tongue). ❍ SENSIBLE See also SIXTH SENSE ၂။ [U, sing] (က) နားလည္ခံယူတတ္ျခင္း။ ခံစားတတ္မႈ။ အသိ။ စိတ္။ ဉာဏ္။ a sense of the (ie the ability to know what is) absurd/ridiculous ❍ not have much sense of humour (ie not recognize and enjoy jokes, funny situations, etc) ❍ have no sense of direction (ie be unable to find one's way easily). (ခ) အသိ။ စိတ္။ ခံစားမႈ။ a sense of one's own importance/worth ❍ have no sense of shame/guilt ❍ feel a sense of security in her arms. ၃။ [U] အသိတရား။ ယုတၱိ။ have the sense to come in out of the rain ❍ There's a lot of sense in what she says. See also COMMON SENSE, HORSE SENSE ၄။ [U] ဆင္ျခင္ တံုတရား။ စဥ္းစားဉာဏ္။ အက်ဳိး။ ယုတၱိ။ What's the sense of doing that? ❍ There's no sense in going alone (ie It would be better not to). ❍ Talk sense—what you're suggesting is impossible. ၅။ senses [pl] သတိ။ ဆင္ျခင္တံု တရား။ စဥ္းစားဉာဏ္။ regain/come to one's senses ❍ Threatening to leave him should bring him to his senses. ❍ No one in their (right) senses would let a small child go out alone. ၆။ [C] (က) အဓိပၸာယ္။ အနက္။ a word with several senses ❍ The sense of the word is not clear. (ခ) သေဘာတရား။ သေဘာ။ in the strict/literal/figurative sense of the expression ❍ I am a worker only in the sense that I work; I don't get paid for what I do. ❍ What you say is true, in a sense. ၇။ [sing] the ~ of sth (fml) သေဘာထား။ The sense of the meeting was (ie Most people present thought) that he should resign. v ၁။ ခံစားရသည္။ သတိျပဳမိသည္။ sense sb's sorrow/hostility ❍ Although she didn't say anything, I sensed (that) she didn't like the idea. ၂။ အာ႐ံုခံႏိုင္သည္။ သိသည္။ an apparatus that senses the presence of toxic gases. ❏ beat, knock, drive, etc (some) sense into sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) အသိတရားရေစသည္။ She's a wild uncontrollable girl, but that new school should knock some sense into her. ❏ come to one's senses [ IDM ] သတိျပန္လည္လာသည္။ When I came to my senses, I was lying in the gutter. ❏ (have) a sense of occasion [ IDM ] အရိပ္သံုးပါး နားလည္ သည္။ ❏ make sense [ IDM ] ၁။ အဓိပၸာယ္ရိွသည္။ ယုတၱိတန္သည္။ What you say makes no sense. ❍ The words are jumbled up and don't make sense. ၂။ သင့္သည္။ It doesn't make sense to buy such an expensive dress when it'll be out of fashion next year. ❍ It would make sense to leave early. ❏ make sense of sth [ IDM ] နားလည္သည္။ သေဘာေပါက္ သည္။ Can you make sense of this poem? ❏ see sense [ IDM ] သတိတရားရသည္။ အျမင္မွန္ရလာသည္။ It's time the government saw sense and abandoned this unworkable policy.

Examples

1. [sense of] : Winning an award would give me a great sense of achievement.
2. They say they are dealing with the problem
3. but there seems to be no sense of urgency.
4. [a sense of optimism/confidence/well-being] : A little bit of praise and appreciation can give people a real sense of well-being.
5. [a sense of foreboding/unease/panic] : Beth read Jake’s letter with a mounting sense of panic.
6. [a sense of identity/belonging/community] : It’s a small village with a strong sense of local identity.
7. [sense of smell/taste/touch etc] : Dogs have a sense of smell that is five times more sensitive than that of humans.
8. You need a good sense of balance to skate well.
9. [sense of humour] : She’s got a great sense of humour.
10. [sense of direction] : I’m sure he’ll be able to find the house – he has a pretty good sense of direction.
11. [business sense] : Our father was a good designer
12. but he had no business sense.
13. He should have had the sense to park the car in the shade.
14. [talk sense] : At least they’ve got someone who can talk sense on the subject.
15. There’s no sense in going ahead until the costs have been agreed.
16. [bring someone to their senses] : What’s it going to take to bring him to his senses?
17. [come to your senses] : Portman urged the government to come to its senses and stop nuclear testing.
18. The word ‘bank’ has a number of senses.
19. We are talking about vocational training in the broadest sense.
20. [in a sense] : My family’s from this area
21. so in a sense it’s like coming home.
22. [in one sense] : In one sense
23. Robertson is a typical politician.