Word Confusion: Sense versus Since

Plural for the noun: senses
Gerund: sensing

Third person present verb: senses
Past tense or past participle: sensed
Present participle: sensing

• One of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch

These faculties all together

A feeling that something is the case

• An awareness or feeling that one is in a specified state
• [sense of] A keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something

A sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems

• A reasonable or comprehensible rationale

A more or less vague perception or impression

A way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted

• A meaning
• The gist of something

[Chiefly Mathematics & Physics] A property, e.g., direction of motion distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other

• [Genetics; as modifier] Relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence
• The meaning of a word or phrase in a specific context, especially as isolated in a dictionary or glossary
• The semantic element in a word or group of words

A faculty or function of the mind analogous to sensation

Any special capacity for perception, estimation, appreciation, etc.

[Usually senses] Clear and sound mental faculties

• Sanity

A mental discernment, realization, or recognition; acuteness

The recognition of something as incumbent or fitting

Sound practical intelligence

The value or worth of something

• Merit

An opinion or judgment formed or held, especially by an assemblage or body of persons

Verb, transitive:
Perceive by a sense or senses

• Be aware of
• [With clause] Be aware that something is the case without being able to define exactly how one knows

[Mechanical devices] To detect physical phenomena, as light, temperature, radioactivity, etc., mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically

[Computers] To read (punched holes, tape, data, etc.) mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically

To grasp the meaning of

• Understand

Between a particular past time and the present

• Subsequently

Ago

• Before now

Conjunction:
In the period following the time when

Continuously from or counting from the time when

Because

• Inasmuch as

Preposition:
Continuously from or counting from

Between a past time or event and the present

What do your senses tell you?

Yes, doctor, all my senses are functional.

She had the sense of being a political outsider.

You can improve your general health and sense of well-being.

She had a fine sense of comic timing.

He gives me such a sense of security.

He earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings.

I can’t see the sense in leaving all the work to you.

It is not clear which sense of the word characters is intended in this passage.

“The characteristics of a vector are the magnitude, the orientation, and the sense” (What).

“Molecular biologists call a single strand of DNA sense (or positive (+)) if an RNA version of the same sequence is translated or translatable into protein” (Sense).

In the midst of a blizzard, John turned to Mike and said, “I sense that it’s a mite cold.”

From a moral sense, that is simply wrong.

Rebecca has the greatest sense of humor.

She has an acute sense of smell.

Have you taken leave of your senses?

Penny has a sense of the worth of a vintage piece of furniture.

John has a strong sense of duty.

He has no sense.

Try to talk sense instead of shouting.

You missed the sense of his statement.

There’s no sense in worrying about the past.

I may be wrong, but I sense this is an intervention.

Verb, transitive:
With the first frost, they could sense a change in the days.

She could sense her father’s anger rising.

He could sense that he wasn’t liked.

An optical fiber senses a current flowing in a conductor.

Luke senses a disturbance in the Force.

I think I get the sense of it.

Those automatic doors are so great in how they sense someone approaching them.

Card punches detect mark sense cards and then punch the corresponding information into the card.

She at first refused, but has since consented.

It’s long since time to discuss this.

Conjunction:
He has written once since he left.

He has been busy since he came.

Since you’re already here, you might as well stay.

Preposition:
It has been warm since noon.

There have been many changes since the war.

It’s been getting colder since you came.

The verb dates from the mid-16th century.