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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
sensitive adj 1: responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light" [ant: insensitive] 2: being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others; "sensitive to the local community and its needs" [ant: insensitive] 3: able to feel or perceive; "even amoeba are sensible creatures"; "the more sensible parts of the skin" [syn: sensible, sensitive] [ant: insensible] 4: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive, sore, raw, tender] 5: of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security n 1: someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums" [syn: medium, spiritualist, sensitive] | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Sensitive \Sen"si*tive\, a. [F. sensitif. See Sense.] 1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. [1913 Webster] 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected. [1913 Webster] She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. (a) (Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales. (b) (Chem. & Photog.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays. [1913 Webster] 4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [R.] [1913 Webster] A sensitive love of some sensitive objects. --Hammond. [1913 Webster] 5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation. --E. Darwin. [1913 Webster] Sensitive fern (Bot.), an American fern (Onoclea sensibilis), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a slight tendency to fold together. Sensitive flame (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch. Sensitive joint vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb (Aeschynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage. Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpose by being rendered sensitive to the effect of light. Sensitive plant. (Bot.) (a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica, or Mimosa sensitiva, and other allied species), the leaves of which close at the slightest touch. (b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the sensitive brier (Schrankia) of the Southern States, two common American species of Cassia (Cassia nictitans, and Cassia Chamaecrista), a kind of sorrel (Oxalis sensitiva), etc. [1913 Webster] -- Sen"si*tive*ly, adv. -- Sen"si*tive*ness, n. [1913 Webster] | ||
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
classified \classified\ adj. 1. arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified. Syn: categorized. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] 2. assigned to a class of documents withheld from general circulation; -- of information or documents. Opposite of unclassified. Note: [Narrower terms: eyes-only; confidential; restricted; secret; sensitive; top-secret] [WordNet 1.5] | ||
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