Since vs. Sense: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Published on January 12, 2024
Since refers to time, meaning from a certain point in the past until now. Sense relates to perception or a logical meaning.
Key Differences
Since is primarily used to indicate a starting point in time, leading up to the present. It sets a temporal boundary, implying continuity or change from that point onwards. Sense, however, denotes either one of the five faculties of perception (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch) or an understanding or awareness of something. The meanings of these words do not overlap; they belong to different lexical categories and serve unique functions in language.
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Since can also be used to explain a reason or cause, often in explanations or justifications. It answers the question of "why" something occurred from a temporal perspective. Sense is more about internal or external perception. It's used to describe the process of experiencing or understanding something, often going beyond mere facts to include subjective interpretations.
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In grammar, Since is often used as a conjunction or a preposition, linking clauses or phrases in a sentence. It requires a specific reference to time. Sense, on the other hand, is used either as a noun or a verb. As a noun, it represents the ability to perceive or feel; as a verb, it means to discern or understand something, often intuitively.
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Since is temporal and causal, while Sense is perceptive and interpretative. This fundamental difference in their meanings ensures that they are used in vastly different contexts. Since is about time and reasoning, and Sense is about experiencing and understanding.
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Since implies a duration or a change over time, focusing on the passage from a specific past moment to the present. Sense, however, concentrates on the ability to perceive or comprehend. It can be about physical sensation or an intellectual or emotional perception, highlighting the diverse ways humans interact with their environment and ideas.
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Comparison Chart
Part of Speech
Used as a preposition, conjunction, or adverb
Used as a noun and verb
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Sentence Example
"Since 2010, technology has advanced rapidly."
"He has a keen sense of humor."
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Usage in Questions
Common in questions about time duration
Often in questions about perception or judgment
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Contextual Use
Relates to time frames and causality
Concerns physical and mental perceptions
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Since and Sense Definitions
Since
Suggesting a reason or explanation.
Since you are here, we can start the meeting.
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Sense
Consciousness or recognition of something.
He has a sense of impending danger.
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Since
Linking two clauses with a time relation.
I haven’t seen him since he moved abroad.
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Sense
The significance or interpretation of something.
The sense of her words became clear later.
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Since
Used to explain why something happens.
Since it was raining, the match was postponed.
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Sense
To discern or become aware of something.
She can sense tension in a room.
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Since
From a point in the past until now.
She has been a great friend since our childhood.
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Sense
Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.
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Since
From then until now or between then and now
They left town and haven't been here since.
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Sense
A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation
A sense of fatigue and hunger.
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Sense
Senses The faculties of sensation as means of providing physical gratification and pleasure.
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Since
After some point in the past; at a subsequent time
My friend has since married and moved to California.
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Sense
An intuitive or acquired perception or ability to estimate
A sense of diplomatic timing.
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Since
During the period subsequent to the time when
He hasn't been home since he graduated.
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Sense
Recognition or perception either through the senses or through the intellect; consciousness
Has no sense of shame.
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Since
Continuously from the time when
They have been friends ever since they were in grade school.
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Sense
Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters
The boy had sense and knew just what to do when he got lost.
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Since
Inasmuch as; because
Since you're not interested, I won't tell you about it.
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Sense
Often senses The normal ability to think or reason soundly
Have you taken leave of your senses?.
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Since
From a specified time in the past.
I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.
A short/long time since
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Sense
Something sound or reasonable
There's no sense in waiting three hours.
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Since
From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.
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Sense
A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification
The sense of the criticism is that the proposal has certain risks.
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Since
Continuously during that period of time.
I have known her since last year.
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Sense
Judgment; consensus
Sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.
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Sense
Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group
I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.
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Sense
To become aware of; perceive
Organisms able to sense their surroundings.
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Sense
To grasp; understand
Sensed that the financial situation would improve.
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Since
From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since.
We since become the slaves to one man's lust.
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Since
In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago.
How many ages since has Virgil writ?
About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house.
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Sense
(Genetics) Of or relating to the portion of the strand of double-stranded DNA that serves as a template for and is transcribed into RNA.
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Since
When or that.
Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field?
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Sense
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
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Since
From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; - usually with a past event or time for the object.
The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming.
I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients.
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Sense
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
A sense of security
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Since
Seeing that; because; considering; - formerly followed by that.
Since that my penitence comes after all,Imploring pardon.
Since truth and constancy are vain,Since neither love, nor sense of pain,Nor force of reason, can persuade,Then let example be obeyed.
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Sense
Sound practical or moral judgment.
It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
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Since
Indicates the starting point of a period extending to the present.
I have been studying since morning.
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Sense
Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
Word sense disambiguation
The true sense of words or phrases
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Sense
(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
The word set has various senses.
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Sense
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
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Sense
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
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Sense
(biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
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Sense
To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
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Sense
A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
What surmounts the reachOf human sense I shall delineate.
The traitor Sense recallsThe soaring soul from rest.
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Sense
Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.
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Sense
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover.
High disdain from sense of injured merit.
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Sense
Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
He raves; his words are looseAs heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense.
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Sense
That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
I speak my private but impartial senseWith freedom.
The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens.
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Sense
Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
I think 't was in another sense.
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Sense
Moral perception or appreciation.
Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
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Sense
One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
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Sense
To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him?
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Sense
A general conscious awareness;
A sense of security
A sense of happiness
A sense of danger
A sense of self
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Sense
The meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted;
The dictionary gave several senses for the word
In the best sense charity is really a duty
The signifier is linked to the signified
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Sense
The faculty through which the external world is apprehended;
In the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
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Sense
Sound practical judgment;
I can't see the sense in doing it now
He hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples
Fortunately she had the good sense to run away
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Sense
A natural appreciation or ability;
A keen musical sense
A good sense of timing
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Sense
Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles;
He felt the wind
She felt an object brushing her arm
He felt his flesh crawl
She felt the heat when she got out of the car
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Sense
Detect some circumstance or entity automatically;
This robot can sense the presence of people in the room
Particle detectors sense ionization
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Sense
Become aware of not through the senses but instinctively;
I sense his hostility
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Sense
One of the five faculties (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch).
His sense of smell is very acute.
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Sense
Grasping or comprehending something.
She has a good sense of complex concepts.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
What does 'since' imply in a sentence?
It usually indicates a time from a past point to the present.
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What does 'sense' mean in terms of perception?
It refers to the faculties of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
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Is 'since' used only in past tense contexts?
'Since' is often used with perfect tenses but can appear in other forms too.
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How is 'since' used as a conjunction?
As a conjunction, it connects two clauses with a time-related cause.
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Can 'since' indicate reasons?
Yes, 'since' can explain reasons similar to 'because'.
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Does 'sense' always refer to physical sensations?
No, it can also refer to a mental or emotional perception.
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How is 'since' used in questions?
It’s used to ask about the duration from a past point to now.
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Can 'sense' imply intuition?
Yes, 'sense' can imply a kind of intuitive understanding or perception.
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How does 'sense' relate to logic?
It can mean a logical or reasonable understanding of something.
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Can 'sense' be used as a verb?
Yes, 'sense' can be used as a verb meaning to perceive or detect.
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Are there any synonyms for 'since'?
Synonyms include 'because', 'as', and 'from the time when'.
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Does 'sense' vary in meaning across different cultures?
Yes, the interpretation of 'sense' can vary culturally, especially in idiomatic uses.
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What is the difference in using 'sense' as a noun and verb?
As a noun, it’s about perception; as a verb, it’s the act of perceiving.
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Is 'since' ever used in future tense?
Rarely, as it primarily focuses on past to present time frames.
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What is the role of 'sense' in language?
It's used to describe perception, understanding, or meaning.
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Can 'sense' be used metaphorically?
Yes, it can be used metaphorically to imply a feeling or hunch.
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Is 'since' appropriate for formal writing?
Yes, it is commonly used in both formal and informal contexts.
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Can 'since' start a sentence?
Yes, it can start a sentence when giving a reason or time reference.
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Can 'sense' have multiple meanings in a sentence?
Yes, its meaning can vary depending on context.
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How is 'since' used in narrative texts?
It's used to show the passage of time or reasons for events.
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