burden vs sense

burden

noun
  • A responsibility, onus. 

  • A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad. 

  • The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. 

  • The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry. 

  • The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. 

  • A fixed quantity of certain commodities. 

  • Theme, core idea. 

  • The drone of a bagpipe. 

  • A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. 

  • The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism. 

  • A heavy load. 

verb
  • To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). 

  • To encumber with a literal or figurative burden. 

sense

noun
  • Sound practical or moral judgment. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 burden and sense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )