literal sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofliteralandsense
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literal
adjective
uk/ˈlɪt.ər.əl/us/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.əl/
The literal meaning of a word is its original, ...
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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(Definition ofliteralandsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofliteral sense
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From theliteralsenseof conjecture the qualities 'hastily' and 'carelessly' appear to be carried over to the transferred sense.
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The expression ' change in grammars ' can be taken in theliteralsenseonly if the social dimension is not excluded from consideration.
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In aliteralsense, the third bar quite firmly establishes a sense of metric time.
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That is precisely what makes the music 'ambient'; its locus is not 'without', but in a supremelyliteralsensewithin.
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Being a vision in theliteralsense, the authentic waking state vision is a ' 'public' ' phenomenon.
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In aliteralsense, we take a bath into the electromagnetic ocean.
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Usually embedded in the ground, these fonts represent in the mostliteralsensea tomb or funerary chamber.
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Employed in theliteralsense, this conjunction would require a full clause following it.
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Darkness in theliteralsenseis caused by the absence of physical light, which prevents people from seeing.
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Thinking-in-movement is obviously a bodily phenomenon; the body inhabits movement in theliteralsenseof living in it.
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For begangan, the meaning ' to surround ' comes from ' to go around ' in aliteralsense.
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This volume may be fairly lightweight in aliteralsense, but as a collection it provides a valuable mass of literature on submarine slope systems.
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When one pulls strings in theliteralsense, one physically sets them (and whatever is attached to them) in motion.
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Theliteralsense(which includes historical truth) is purged but not discarded.
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But he wants the tradition's adherents to be properly understood as believers in change, not as "conservatives" in anyliteralsenseof the word.
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How easily could "but" have been substituted for the poem's second "and" without changing theliteralsenseof the lines.
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