English to English Dictionary

Semiotic

The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.

Senior master

A senior male teacher in a school who holds a position of authority or administrative responsibility, typically second-in-command to the headmaster.

Senjōzai

The state of existing or being present in a battlefield.

Sentience

The capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjective sensations independently of intellect or thought.

Sentient-being

A living entity that has the capacity for sensation, perception, and consciousness.

Sentimentalism

A literary and artistic movement that emphasizes emotional expression and the importance of feelings.

Senza

Without; used as a musical direction indicating that a specific instrument or voice should play without a previously used device or effect.

Separability

The quality of being separable or capable of being separated.

Separation-of-Powers

A doctrine in political theory that divides the responsibilities of government into separate branches to prevent any one branch from gaining too much power.

Serendipity

The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

Series-resonance

A phenomenon in an electrical circuit containing resistance, inductance, and capacitance connected in series, occurring when the applied frequency causes the inductive and capacitive reactances to be equal in magnitude but opposite in phase, resulting in minimum impedance and maximum current.

Sermonic

Relating to or characteristic of a sermon.