<B>sensitive brier,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a perennial American plant of the pea family, having rose-colored flowers and many leaflets that fold together when touched. It is closely related to the sensitive plant. </DL>
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<B>sensitive fern,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a North American fern in which the segments of the fronds tend to fold together after being detached. </DL>
<A NAME="sensitivepea">
<B>sensitive pea,</B> =partridge pea.</DL>
<A NAME="sensitiveplant">
<B>sensitive plant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tropical American mimosa often grown in greenhouses, whose leaflets fold together at the slightest touch. It belongs to the pea family. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various other plants sensitive to touch. </DL>
<A NAME="sensitivity">
<B>sensitivity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition or quality of being sensitive. <BR> <I>Ex. Sentimentality and sensitivity, not in the maudlin but in the highest sense, are perhaps the greatest and most important qualities in a good mother (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>the capacity of an organism or part to respond to stimuli; irritability. <DD><B> b. </B>the degree of this. <DD><B> 3. </B>the degree of responsiveness of an electrical or electronic device, as to a signal. </DL>
<A NAME="sensitivitygroup">
<B>sensitivity group,</B> =encounter group.</DL>
<A NAME="sensitivitytraining">
<B>sensitivity training,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> training by a group of people, under the guidance of a leader, to develop self-awareness and sensitivity to the feelings of others, as in an encounter group or T-group. </DL>
<A NAME="sensitization">
<B>sensitization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act, process, or result of sensitizing or making sensitive. </DL>
<A NAME="sensitize">
<B>sensitize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-tized,</B> <B>-tizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make sensitive. Camera films have been sensitized to light. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Immunology.) to make unusually sensitive to a protein or other substance by repeated injections. </DL>
<A NAME="sensitizer">
<B>sensitizer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that sensitizes. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Photography.) the chemical agent or bath by which films or substances are made sensitive to light. </DL>
<A NAME="sensitometer">
<B>sensitometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device or apparatus for determining degree of sensitiveness, especially to light, of the eye, or of photographic plates or films. </DL>
<A NAME="sensitometric">
<B>sensitometric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with sensitometry. </DL>
<A NAME="sensitometry">
<B>sensitometry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the determination of the degree of sensitivity of photographic materials. </DL>
<A NAME="sensor">
<B>sensor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various devices that react to changes in temperature, radiation, motion, or the like, by generating or transmitting signals that may be used to measure an output or control an automatic operation. <BR> <I>Ex. Feedback in automation depends on sensors to transmit data to the controlling computer.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any sensing device, such as a radar system, photoelectric cell, or remote sensor. <DD><B> 3. </B>an instrument for recording and transmitting data about physiological changes; biosensor. <BR> <I>Ex. Scientists on the ground received electrocardiograms direct from sensors attached to the spacemen's bodies (Time).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>any sensory structure; sense organ. <BR> <I>Ex. the sensors of an insect.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sensorial">
<B>sensorial, </B>adjective. =sensory.</DL>
<A NAME="sensorimotor">
<B>sensorimotor, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with both sensory and motor activity in the body. </DL>
<A NAME="sensorium">
<B>sensorium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-soriums,</B> <B>-soria.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the supposed seat of sensation in the brain, usually taken as the cortex or gray matter. <DD><B> 2. </B>the whole sensory apparatus of the body. <DD><B> 3. </B>the brain or mind (an unscientific use of the word). </DL>
<A NAME="sensory">
<B>sensory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with sensation or the senses. The eyes and ears are sensory organs. <DD><B> 2. </B>conveying an impulse from the sense organs to a nerve center. <BR> <I>Ex. sensory nerves, sensory ganglia. Thus we see that some of the nerves are sensory and pick up sensations from sense organs to carry them to the main cords and brain, while others are motor and carry impulses from the brain and main nerves to the muscles in order to produce the proper response to the stimulation (A. M. Winchester).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sensoryperception">
<B>sensory perception,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> perception by the senses; sense perception. </DL>
<A NAME="sensual">
<B>sensual, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of, having to do with, or appealing to the bodily senses rather than the mind or soul. <BR> <I>Ex. Gluttons derive sensual pleasure from eating.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>liking the pleasures of the senses; indifferent to intellectual and moral interests. <BR> <I>Ex. The average sensual man ... whose ideal is the free, gay, pleasurable life of Paris (Matthew Arnold).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>lustful; lewd; unchaste; indulging too much in the pleasures of the senses. (SYN) wanton, lecherous. <DD><B> 4. </B>indicative of a sensual disposition. <BR> <I>Ex. sensual lips.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>of or having to do with the senses or sensation; sensory. <BR> <I>Ex. Of music Doctor Johnson used to say that it was the only sensual pleasure without vice (William Seward).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>having to do with the doctrine of sensationalism. adv. <B>sensually.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sensualism">
<B>sensualism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=sensuality.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>the ethical doctrine that gratification of the senses is the main object of life. </DL>
<A NAME="sensualist">
<B>sensualist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who likes, pursues, or indulges too much in the pleasures of the senses. <DD><B> 2. </B>a believer in the ethical doctrine of sensualism. </DL>
<A NAME="sensualistic">
<B>sensualistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with sensualism. </DL>
<A NAME="sensuality">
<B>sensuality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>sensual nature. <BR> <I>Ex. Claude's agonizing longing for purity struggles against a sensuality that is wholly animal (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a liking for the pleasures of the senses. <DD><B> 3. </B>excessive indulgence in the pleasures of the senses. <DD><B> 4. </B>lewdness; lasciviousness. </DL>
<A NAME="sensualize">
<B>sensualize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make sensual. noun <B>sensualization.</B> </DL>
<B>sensuous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or derived from the senses; having an effect on the senses; perceived by the senses. <BR> <I>Ex. the sensuous thrill of a warm bath, a sensuous love of color. The sensuous joy from all things fair his strenuous bent of soul repressed (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>enjoying the pleasures of the senses. adv. <B>sensuously.</B> noun <B>sensuousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sent">
<B>sent, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense and past participle of <B>send.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. They sent the trunks last week. She was sent on an errand.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sent">
<B>sent.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> sentence. </DL>
<A NAME="sentence">
<B>sentence, </B>noun, verb, <B>-tenced,</B> <B>-tencing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a group of words (or sometimes a single word) that is grammatically complete and expresses a statement, request, command, question, or exclamation. A sentence normally contains a subject and predicate. "Boys and girls" is not a sentence. "The boys are here" is a sentence. (Examples:) <BR> <I>Ex. He is good (declarative sentence); Is he good? (interrogative sentence); Be good! (imperative sentence); Good boy! (exclamatory sentence).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Mathematics.) a group of symbols that expresses a complete idea or a requirement. (Examples:) 4 + 2 = 6 is a closed sentence expressing a complete idea; x + 2 = 6 is an open sentence expressing a requirement. <DD><B> 3. </B>an opinion pronounced on some particular question; decision. <BR> <I>Ex. My sentence is for open war (Milton).</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>a decision by a judge or court, especially on the punishment of a criminal. <DD><B> b. </B>the punishment itself. <BR> <I>Ex. The remaining two months of his sentence slipped by ... rapidly (Samuel Butler).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Music.) a phrase or (sometimes) a period. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Archaic.) a short, wise saying; proverb. <BR> <I>Ex. Who fears a sentence or an old man's saw shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to pronounce punishment on. <BR> <I>Ex. The judge sentenced the thief to five years in prison.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sentencer">
<B>sentencer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who pronounces sentence; judge. </DL>
<A NAME="sentencestress">
<B>sentence stress</B> or <B>accent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the varying emphasis given to words that affects the meaning of a sentence. (Example:) <BR> <I>Ex. "He killed the dog, not his brother," as compared with, "He killed the dog, not his brother."</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sententia">
<B>sententia, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tiae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pithy or pointed statement; aphorism or epigram. </DL>
<A NAME="sentential">
<B>sentential, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with or of the nature of a judicial sentence or decree. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with a grammatical sentence. </DL>
<B>sentential function,</B> <B>=propositional function </B>(def. 2).</DL>
<A NAME="sententious">
<B>sententious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>full of meaning; saying much in few words. <BR> <I>Ex. grave reflections and sententious maxims.</I> (SYN) pithy. <DD><B> 2. </B>speaking as if one were a judge settling a question. <DD><B> 3. </B>inclined to make wise sayings; abounding in proverbs. <BR> <I>Ex. a long, sententious letter, full of Latin quotations (Charles Kingsley).</I> (SYN) epigrammatic. adv. <B>sententiously.</B> noun <B>sententiousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sentience">
<B>sentience, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>capacity for feeling. <BR> <I>Ex. Some people believe in the sentience of flowers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>mere responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensory capacity, as of the skin to pain. </DL>
