sense vs smell

sense

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

  • To instinctively be aware. 

  • To comprehend. 

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. 

smell

verb
  • To sense a smell or smells. 

  • To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour. 

  • To smell bad; to stink. 

  • To detect or perceive; often with out. 

  • Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. 

  • To smell of; to have a smell of 

noun
  • A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate. 

  • A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. 

  • The sense that detects odours. 

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