Tra từ sensation - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

sen‧sa‧tion/senˈseɪʃən/ noun
[date : 1600-1700; Language : Medieval Latin; Origin : sensatio, from Late Latin sensatus 'having sense', from Latin sensus; ⇨ sense¹]
1. [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
a feeling that you get from one of your five senses, especially the sense of touch
burning/prickling/tingling etc sensation
　 ▪ One sign of a heart attack is a tingling sensation in the left arm.
sensation of
　 ▪ a sensation of heat

2. [COUNTABLE]
a feeling that is difficult to describe, caused by a particular event, experience, or memory
sensation that
　 ▪ Caroline had the sensation that she was being watched.
strange/curious/odd sensation
　 ▪ It was a strange sensation – I felt I’d been there before.

3. [UNCOUNTABLE]
the ability to feel things, especially through your sense of touch:
　 ▪ Jerry realized that he had no sensation in his legs.

4. [COUNTABLE USUALLY SINGULAR]
extreme excitement or interest, or someone or something that causes this
cause/create a sensation
　 ▪ The sex scenes in the film caused a sensation.
pop/fashion/media etc sensation
　 ▪ the latest pop sensation from England
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COLLOCATIONS (for Meanings 1 & 2)
adjectives
▪pleasant
　 ▪ She was enjoying the pleasant sensation of being in the warm water.
▪unpleasant
　 ▪ I felt a rather unpleasant sensation in my chest.
▪strange/odd
　 ▪ As we looked at each other I had a strange sensation.
▪a physical sensation
　 ▪ Babies soon learn to recognize the physical sensation of hunger.
▪a burning sensation
　 ▪ These chemicals can cause a burning sensation or rash.
▪a prickling sensation (=a feeling that your skin is stinging)
　 ▪ He felt a prickling sensation on the back of his neck.
▪a tingling sensation (=a feeling that your skin is stinging slightly)
　 ▪ She felt a tingling sensation, like a mild electric shock.
▪a choking sensation (=a feeling that you cannot breathe)
　 ▪ A choking sensation filled my throat.
verbs
▪feel/have/experience a sensation
　 ▪ He felt a tingling sensation down his left side.
▪cause/produce a sensation
　 ▪ The drug can produce strange sensations in some patients.

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tactile sensations
▪ tactile sensations
tingling feeling/sensation
▪ Graham felt a tingling sensation in his hand.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
bodily
▪ We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation.
▪ I shall now try to make explicit these other lines of thought about the location of bodily sensations.
burning
▪ But the thick, hardened layers of dead skin sometimes press on the nerve, causing a burning sensation when you walk.
▪ If there is any pain or a burning sensation, tell the doctor, just in case you have a urinary infection.
▪ There was a burning sensation somewhere near the pit of his stomach.
▪ When it started again there was a new pain a sharp burning sensation in her crotch.
▪ She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek, and jerked her hand away from her face.
curious
▪ Helen now had a curious pricking sensation up and down her spine.
▪ Later I experienced a curious burning sensation during micturition.
▪ Once again Sabine had the curious sensation that time had stopped and run back.
▪ You may feel a curious pulling-away sensation or friction.
different
▪ Natural foodstuffs contain a range of flavours that create a subtly different sensation.
▪ We need to look at how a child reacts to and processes different sensations and motor patterns.
▪ It's a different sensation in your muscles than just hard weight.
new
▪ Stepping off the concrete path on to gravel was a new sensation and he felt himself slide and stumble.
▪ Not new sensations but rather so-called discoveries.
▪ This use of new spatial sensations was to become an increasingly important feature of Braque's work.
▪ It was a new sensation for her.
▪ It is probably true to say that these new sensations were at first quite undetected, as such, by himself.
▪ Sunday morning brings to this trip a new sensation: Melancholy.
▪ She felt an odd, new sensation.
▪ The solipsist admits no community to ground his belief that it is objectively true that this new sensation is a pain.
odd
▪ At first there is the odd sensation of panic, the feel of coming to an alien city.
▪ Sam Fong experienced an odd sensation on seeing some one he had always thought to be his enemy.
▪ Yet when he lowered his arm Meredith had the odd sensation that she'd lost.
▪ She felt an odd, new sensation.
▪ So it produces an odd sensation to learn, again from Anna, that this superstition was in fact Dostoevsky's.
overnight
▪ Admirable stirring stuff but, as overnight sensations always discover, the dawn has a cruel and wicked light.
▪ Alomar is 31, a little old to be an overnight sensation.
▪ Hiney reminds us that Philip Marlowe was anything but an overnight sensation.
▪ How did the Metropolitan Grill became an unmitigated overnight sensation?
▪ Snapple became an overnight sensation among health buffs in the Northeast and on the West Coast.
physical
▪ It offers a character great combat skill in return for being able to share the physical and mental sensations of combat.
▪ Because when you attach the physical sensations to the visualization, it has more impact.
▪ It is true that many of these creatures are aware of ordinary physical sensations beyond our human thresholds.
▪ Lydecker says she can tune in to animals' mental images and feel their emotional and physical sensations.
▪ The important thing to remember is to have implicit faith in the instrument indications, ignoring any contrary physical sensations.
▪ You both lose awareness of self-consciousness, of anything but the current overwhelming physical and emotional sensations.
▪ But I possessed that night an almost total recall of physical sensations.
pleasant
▪ It really was a rather pleasant sensation.
▪ The electrical chair produced a pleasant tingly sensation.
▪ Sanity was very quickly returning to her, and it wasn't a pleasant sensation.
rectal
▪ In this study we classified rectal sensations elicited by isobaric distensions according to the segmental steady state values obtained.
▪ Previous results have shown a higher threshold of rectal sensation in men than in women.
strange
▪ It was a strange sensation to have them on - more intimate than sleeping with his widow.
▪ The strangest sensation of all was the motion of the room.
▪ In spite of her sore butt and the strange sensation between her legs, she wasn't unduly stressed.
▪ I feel a little curl of strange sensation working its way down from the bottom of my spine.
▪ And all at once a strange sensation came over him.
▪ He was aware of strange thoughts and sensations swimming through his mind, but he could not cope with the pain.
▪ She was gripped by something else, a truly strange sensation.
▪ It is a strange sensation, but many sense it from time to time: a consuming desire to part with money.
tactile
▪ The disobedient youth has been injected with an experimental drug, though of course his tactile sensations aren't blunted.
▪ My comment that I enjoy the tactile sensation of playing with the dough met with a supercilious, adult-type snicker.
tingling
▪ She felt him draw her closer up against his body - and suddenly a tingling sensation started somewhere inside her.
▪ Eventually, when the pitch is low and the voice is forward, you will feel the tingling sensation on your lips.
▪ He explains how he felt a tingling sensation down his left-hand side but did not immediately call for help.
▪ Graham immediately felt a tingling sensation in his hand which quickly spread up his arm and into his chest.
▪ The lingering tingling sensations caused by the whip glowed all over her body.
visual
▪ From the start Bergman's narrative was for me an assemblage of visual and sound sensations.
NOUN
media
▪ This true-life horror story coming out of Los Angeles a few years back became an instant media sensation.
VERB
become
▪ Overnight, she became a sensation.
▪ How did the Metropolitan Grill became an unmitigated overnight sensation?
▪ Snapple became an overnight sensation among health buffs in the Northeast and on the West Coast.
▪ This true-life horror story coming out of Los Angeles a few years back became an instant media sensation.
burn
▪ Later I experienced a curious burning sensation during micturition.
▪ When this happens the esophagus becomes irritated and inflamed, causing a burning sensation that has the potential to awaken a sleeper.
cause
▪ This is a show that would cause a sensation in London or New York.
▪ This caused a sensation in Western countries where the threat of serious infectious disease had come to be considered remote.
▪ But the thick, hardened layers of dead skin sometimes press on the nerve, causing a burning sensation when you walk.
▪ When this happens the esophagus becomes irritated and inflamed, causing a burning sensation that has the potential to awaken a sleeper.
▪ The see-through trouser suit she had designed herself had caused a sensation at Rachel Ansorge's party.
▪ The advantage of this approach is that pain relief may be obtained without causing disturbance of sensation over the face and cornea.
▪ It also, vitally, causes the moment of sensation to be prolonged.
▪ Many neurologic disorders affecting the brain stem, cerebellum, and spinal cord posterior column may cause dizzy sensations.
create
▪ He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go.
▪ For some people this creates an overload of sensation that is too much to bear.
▪ This Fireside Listening tape uses words to create the sensation of skiing.
▪ In I 779 he created a sensation with a pocket chronometer, called No. 36.
▪ Natural foodstuffs contain a range of flavours that create a subtly different sensation.
enjoy
▪ Ask yourself how it makes you feel, what memories it arouses within you and whether you enjoy the sensation.
▪ My comment that I enjoy the tactile sensation of playing with the dough met with a supercilious, adult-type snicker.
▪ But only drink it if you enjoy the taste and sensation.
▪ I enjoy the sensation of eating.
▪ I felt ashamed because I was enjoying this sensation.
▪ I drank some of my beer, enjoying the sensation of bubbles on my tongue after the stickiness of the peanuts.
▪ She concentrated on enjoying the sensation of air entering and leaving her lungs.
experience
▪ A year ago I experienced a sensation of flashing lights and couldn't see for about 20 minutes.
▪ Later I experienced a curious burning sensation during micturition.
▪ Because I was experiencing shooting sensations around my hips, the doctor was convinced I had a back problem.
▪ An involuntary action is set up which causes him to withdraw his hand even before he experiences any sensation of pain.
▪ Never had Theda experienced such a sensation.
▪ Sam Fong experienced an odd sensation on seeing some one he had always thought to be his enemy.
▪ We went down into the station shelter and I experienced the familiar claustrophobic sensation of waiting for something to happen.
▪ Be sure to hear the sounds, smell the smells, experience the sensations.
feel
▪ She felt a giddy sensation of ground shifting under her feet.
▪ It was a perverse jealousy I felt, envying him sensations no one should have to suffer.
▪ I also think you can feel such sensations in places where great acts of religious worship have taken place.
▪ If the individual can not feel the tiny pricking sensation, it is a sign of faulty nerve function in the feet.
▪ Her cream shoes were far from waterproof, and already she could feel an unpleasant sensation around her toes.
▪ Your mind and body feel great sensations and it happens so quickly.
▪ Eventually, when the pitch is low and the voice is forward, you will feel the tingling sensation on your lips.
▪ He explains how he felt a tingling sensation down his left-hand side but did not immediately call for help.
give
▪ He strove with words as he strove with brush, pen, or etching needle to give the public equal sensations.
▪ The texture of Les Majeurs is so light and natural that it gives a sensation of comfort and a sensational finish.
▪ Claudia closed her eyes and gave herself up to sheer sensation.
▪ To visit Venice gives the sensation of viewing an ancient and famous movie, with each bit player a star name.
produce
▪ They are not there apart from an observer, they are rather the tendency of objects to produce certain sensations in one.
▪ The electrical chair produced a pleasant tingly sensation.
▪ So it produces an odd sensation to learn, again from Anna, that this superstition was in fact Dostoevsky's.
tingle
▪ Suspense in fiction, that tingling sensation that makes us keep turning the pages, seems to arise in two ways.
▪ The next few days I felt a curious tingling, itching sensation on my face.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A cold sensation suddenly ran down my spine.
▪ A common sign of brain tumours is a tingly, numb sensation in the toes and fingertips.
▪ She felt a cold sensation as the icy water dripped down her back.
▪ The drug helps to improve muscle function and sensation after an accident.
▪ The fear of pain can be worse than the sensation of pain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An involuntary action is set up which causes him to withdraw his hand even before he experiences any sensation of pain.
▪ Eventually, when the pitch is low and the voice is forward, you will feel the tingling sensation on your lips.
▪ It really was a rather pleasant sensation.
▪ She was not in the least embarrassed and felt something of an opposite sensation, which had no name.
▪ The sensation is a thrilling one, and I enjoy it immensely.
▪ The real sensation came, however, during the fourth number.
▪ They were a sensation, a stirring, something she could not have sworn came from outside herself.
▪ This is the heady sensation that most travelers relish, the freedom that comes from feeling unaccounted for and unaccountable.