Difference between Signified and Sense

What is the difference between Signified and Sense?

Signified as a verb is to create a sign out of something. while Sense as a verb is to use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.

Signified

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To create a sign out of something.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The concept or idea evoked by a sign.

Sense

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.To instinctively be aware.To comprehend.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One of the methods for a living being to gather data about the world; sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.A general conscious awareness.Sound practical judgment, as in common senseThe meaning, reason, or value of something.A natural appreciation or abilityThe way that a referent is presented.A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.

Example sentence: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

We hope you now know whether to use Signified or Sense in your sentence.

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