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Definition: Sense Of Smell |
Sense Of SmellNoun1. The faculty of smell. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Sense Of SmellSynonyms: olfaction (n), olfactory modality (n), smell (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sense Of Smell |
| English words defined with "sense of smell": anosmatic, anosmia, anosmic ♦ betray ♦ dysomia, dysosmia ♦ fail ♦ Nasute, nose ♦ ofactory impairment, olfactory brain ♦ parosamia, possibility, possibleness ♦ rhinencephalon ♦ scented, scentless, Smeller, smelling bottle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sense of smell": Attractant ♦ counselor, orientation and mobility ♦ instructor of blind ♦ Nose ♦ ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY THERAPIST FOR THE BLIND, orientation therapist for blind, orientor ♦ therapist for blin. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well spiders have a highly developed sense of smell the perfume might confuse them. (Eight Legged Freaks; writing credit: Ellory Elkayem; Randy Kornfield) | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes | Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. |
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Health | Flavors are recognized mainly through the sense of smell. (references) | |
The most common chemosensory complaints are a loss of the sense of smell and the sense of taste. (references) | ||
Scientists have developed an easily administered "scratch and sniff" test to evaluate the sense of smell. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout: "No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!" So the lawyers applied For injunction. "Denied," Said the Judge: "the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction." Arpad Singiny |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "sense of smell": have a sense of smell. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sense of smell | 61 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sense of smell"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حاسة الشم (nose, scent, smell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 臭 (smell bad, smelly, stench, stink, to smell), 嗅 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reukzintuig (olfactory sense, organ of smell), reukzin (smell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hajuaisti (olfaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | odorat (olfactory sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Geruchssinn (scent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αισθητήριο όσφρησης (olfactory sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חוש "ריח (scent, smell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szimat (flair, nose, scent, vent), szaglóérzék, szaglás (nose, scent, smell, smelling, vent), szagérzék. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penciuman (kissing, sniffing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | olfatto (olfaction, smell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 臭覚 (the sense of smell), 嗅覚 (the sense of smell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅうかく (crop, game, harvest, ingathering, result, the sense of smell), きゅうかく (the sense of smell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soaral (odorous, pong, scent, scented, smell, smelling, whiff), soar (aroma, bouquet, breath, odour, pong, scent, smell, sniff), keeall soaral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensesay ofay ellsmay sentido do olfacto (olfactory sense), olfacto (olfaction, olfactory sense). (various references) f ileadh (savour; sense of smell, smell). (various references) sentido olfativo (olfactory sense), olfato (flair, nose, scent, smell). (various references) luktsinne (olfaction). (various references) koklama duyusu (olfaction). (various references) arogliad (smelling), arogledd (fragrance, odor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-l-l-m-n-o-s-s-s" | |
-2 letters: fellnesses. | |
-3 letters: menseless. | |
-4 letters: fellness, lensless, noseless, selfless, selfness, soleless, soleness. | |
-5 letters: feeless, felloes, flenses, flosses, lessees, lessens, lessons, loesses, nemeses, oneself, sonless. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-f-l-l-m-n-o-s-s-s" | |
+5 letters: mellifluousnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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