bunk vs sense

bunk

adj
  • Defective, broken, not functioning properly. 

noun
  • A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. 

  • A cot. 

  • Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense. 

  • A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient. 

  • A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. 

  • A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other. 

  • One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers. 

verb
  • To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). 

  • To occupy a bunk. 

  • To provide a bunk. 

  • To depart; scram. 

sense

noun
  • Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. 

  • One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity. 

  • A natural appreciation or ability. 

  • The way that a referent is presented. 

  • The meaning, reason, or value of something. 

  • A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary. 

  • Sound practical or moral judgment. 

  • Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. 

  • referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product. 

  • One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise. 

  • Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings. 

verb
  • To instinctively be aware. 

  • To comprehend. 

  • To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel. 

How often have the words bunk and sense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )