Definition of perceive in English:

perceive

verb pəˈsiːvpərˈsiv

[with object]

1Become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand.
认识到，意识到；理解
his mouth fell open as he perceived the truth
当他意识到真相时，他吃惊得张大了嘴巴。
with clause he was quick to perceive that there was little future in such arguments
他很快意识到这样的争论不会有什么结果。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her ability to understand, to perceive the nature of the truth was what was being tested.
- Patients initially perceive a benefit while being treated, but this benefit disappears by one year.
- There is evidence to suggest that students do perceive benefit from ethics courses.
- Congress was a long way from conceiving itself to have this power or perceiving a need to exercise it.
- Although instructors are trained, variation in assessments between groups are still perceived by students.
- Spatial intelligence, the power to perceive form and give visual shape to ideas, is equally important.
- I find it funny how people always forget to put into perspective what was perceived at the time.
- You could say that we perceive the world with the eye of the intellect, or the eye of the emotive self, but that's not the eye that perceives divine reality.
- The respondents perceived few barriers in relation to themselves.
- People admire that quiet charm, perceiving great depth and understanding behind that gentle manner.
- I was perceiving in terms of the topography and the topographical maps I had seen.
- Furthermore, faculty also perceived a lack of access to equipment and facilities.
- We actually learn to perceive sounds and words from the continuous stream of speech.
- For some, this discovery led them to perceive a lack in Australian society of shared moral values and of encouragement to live well.
- The intuition perceives patterns and rhythms.
- The patient perceives a distorted reality but is usually unaware that he is ill.
- Consequently, people within the same community may not perceive risk in the same way as their neighbours.
- Judging and perceiving characteristics may be the hardest to understand.
- Smokers clearly perceive benefits from smoking, otherwise they would not pay to do it.
- A person who is conscious selectively perceives sensations, attending to some while filtering out others.
Synonyms
discern, recognize, become cognizant of, become aware of, become conscious of, get/come to know, tell, distinguish, grasp, understand, take in, make out, find, identify, hit on, comprehend, apprehend, figure out, deduce, conclude, see, discover, learn, appreciate, realize, ascertain, sense, divine, intuit
informal catch on to, have an aha moment
British informal twig
rare cognize
1. 1.1 Become aware of (something) by the use of one of the senses, especially that of sight.
  察觉，感觉；看出
  he perceived the faintest of flushes creeping up her neck
  他察觉到她的脖子上冒出了一丝红晕。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Temperature, tannins and the effervescence of sparkling wines are perceived through the sense of touch in the mouth.
  No two persons can ever, in this sense, perceive the same item: nothing at all is publicly perceptible.
  English speakers understand that in perceiving tomatoes, grapes, etc one is acquainted with sensuous features.
  As humans, our five senses are basic ways through which we perceive the world.
  Sweet and bitter mingled together for there were no senses to perceive them.
  We perceive our environment via our senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing, sight.
  Thus, there may be benefits to learning to perceive signals against particular backgrounds.
  This means that if we make an effort when we perceive orange, we sense a variety of shades.
  This is described as naturalism - the artist paints with an untrained mind, and portrays things in the way that he understands and perceives them.
  In its broadest sense, aesthetics refers to the ability to perceive through the senses.
  Our eyes perceive different wavelengths of light as color, but this sense isn't very refined.
  You're actually perceiving it through your senses and through an exploration of what the idea might be perceived through your senses.
  The robe that Euripides's Medea sends as a gift glues together the flesh and the bones of her rival; but the sense that perceives the progress of this deadly confusion is sight.
  The basic idea is that when you perceive the world then you take information in through your senses and of course this is exactly what we believe today.
  It is true that we can perceive things even though we are not conscious of perceiving them.
  The properties perceived by other senses are also conveyed by contact of some kind.
  Emotional experiencing is generally considered to be synonymous with feeling, which can be understood as having or perceiving a physical sensation or a state of mind.
  The first appeared for just 15 milliseconds - too quick to be consciously perceived by the viewer.
  Scientists still do not know exactly how we hear and perceive sounds.
  Synonyms
  see, make out, pick out, discern, detect, catch sight of, spot, observe, glimpse, notice, recognize, identify
  hear, smell, sniff (out), scent, nose out, feel, taste, sense
2Interpret or regard (someone or something) in a particular way.
把（人，物）看作，认为
if Guy does not perceive himself as disabled, nobody else should
如果盖伊不把自己看作残疾人，别人就谁也不该这么看。
with object and infinitive some geographers perceive hydrology to be a separate field of scientific enquiry
有些地理学家将水文学看作科学探索的一个独立领域。
Example sentencesExamples
- He said people often perceived vehicles to be going faster than they really were.
- Additionally, the respondents perceived lack of personal resources and lack of interest among perioperative nurses to be possible barriers.
- People often perceive that these illnesses only happen to older people, however this clearly isn't the case.
- Students generally perceive accounting as boring and dull.
- To come out to boos is one of the most strident messages you can receive about the way you are perceived as a person.
- It would annoy me if that was what people perceived me to be here for.
- I think people would perceive him a little differently from how they did in the '70s.
- People perceive me as a different character to what I actually am.
- In 2002, pop music is widely perceived to be manufactured, bland and glossy.
- Some asthmatic patients perceive the severity of their disease rather poorly.
- I believe that the name given to you by your parents can have a great bearing on your life, an influence on the person you become and the way in which people perceive you.
- Also, the survival of this fortified native centre implies they were not perceived as a threat to Rome.
- Nevertheless, some school clubs still perceived a need for the condition.
- The silence could have been perceived in two different ways, I think.
- I still find myself wondering how people perceive me as I move through this world.
- No wonder: the genuinely erotic is often perceived as a threat by the status quo, even in France.
- The atmosphere of that period had been perceived at the time as posing a threat to their existence.
- For whatever reason, they seem to have a chip on their shoulders about how they are perceived by outsiders.
- And besides, Smith says she's stopped worrying about how people perceive her.
- However, for us our own branding has been an issue as people perceive us as a data company, so we have to work hard to get out the message about our voice and converged abilities.
Synonyms
look on, view, regard, consider, think of, judge, deem, appraise, assess, adjudge, figure (out), size up, value, rate, suppose, think, sum up, weigh up

Derivatives

perceivable

adjective pəˈsiːvəb(ə)lpərˈsivəb(ə)l

It translates these purported interactions into a mode perceivable and tangible to man.
Example sentencesExamples
- The monarch butterfly can discern tastes 12,0000 times more subtle than those perceivable by human taste buds.
- Hence we see things in the dark: our brains fill in what is most likely there, what might be there, or what we fear could be there, based on small clues from what actually is perceivable there.
- According to Descartes, the mind is one sort of substance, and body another, because it is possible to form a conception of the mind and a conception of body by way of totally separate sets of clearly and distinctly perceivable attributes.
- Science is that branch of knowledge which deals with the material world, the world and natural phenomena that are observable, measurable and perceivable by the senses.

perceiver

noun

I actually think in that moment we became, in some ways, different people, different journalists, different perceivers of the world.
Example sentencesExamples
- Somehow it does not seem appropriate to speak of the first four cases listed here as involving the unconscious mind, even though the perceivers are not aware of what they are perceiving.
- In other words, knowledge is always of a reality that exists independently of knowers and perceivers.
- Aesthetics and the theory of beauty are not the same, because the theory of beauty may be concentrated on objects and appearances but aesthetics is concerned with perceptions and perceivers.
- The survey did, however, conclude that there were massive differences in perceptions of age according to how old the perceiver was.

Origin

Middle English: from a variant of Old French perçoivre, from Latin percipere 'seize, understand', from per- 'entirely' + capere 'take'.

capable from mid 16th century:
The first recorded sense of this was ‘able to take in’, physically or mentally. It comes from Latin capere ‘take or hold’ which is found in many other English words including: accept (Late Middle English) from ad- ‘to’ and capere; anticipation (Late Middle English) ‘acting or taking in advance’; capacity (Late Middle English) ‘ability to hold’; caption (Late Middle English) originally an act of capture; captive (Late Middle English); catch (Middle English); chase (Middle English); conceive (Middle English) literally ‘take together’; except (Late Middle English) ‘take out of’; incapacity (early 17th century) inability to hold; intercept (Late Middle English) to take between; perceive (Middle English) to hold entirely; prince; receive (Middle English) ‘take back’; susceptible (early 17th century) literally ‘that can be taken from below’.

Rhymes

achieve, believe, breve, cleave, conceive, deceive, eve, greave, grieve, heave, interleave, interweave, khedive, leave, misconceive, naive, Neve, peeve, reave, receive, reive, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, sheave, sleeve, steeve, Steve, Tananarive, Tel Aviv, thieve, underachieve, upheave, weave, we've, Yves

Definition of perceive in US English:

perceive

verbpərˈsivpərˈsēv

[with object]

1Become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand.
认识到，意识到；理解
his mouth fell open as he perceived the truth
当他意识到真相时，他吃惊得张大了嘴巴。
with clause he was quick to perceive that there was little future in such arguments
他很快意识到这样的争论不会有什么结果。
Example sentencesExamples
- Furthermore, faculty also perceived a lack of access to equipment and facilities.
- People admire that quiet charm, perceiving great depth and understanding behind that gentle manner.
- I was perceiving in terms of the topography and the topographical maps I had seen.
- The respondents perceived few barriers in relation to themselves.
- Judging and perceiving characteristics may be the hardest to understand.
- For some, this discovery led them to perceive a lack in Australian society of shared moral values and of encouragement to live well.
- Consequently, people within the same community may not perceive risk in the same way as their neighbours.
- We actually learn to perceive sounds and words from the continuous stream of speech.
- The patient perceives a distorted reality but is usually unaware that he is ill.
- You could say that we perceive the world with the eye of the intellect, or the eye of the emotive self, but that's not the eye that perceives divine reality.
- Her ability to understand, to perceive the nature of the truth was what was being tested.
- Congress was a long way from conceiving itself to have this power or perceiving a need to exercise it.
- I find it funny how people always forget to put into perspective what was perceived at the time.
- Smokers clearly perceive benefits from smoking, otherwise they would not pay to do it.
- Patients initially perceive a benefit while being treated, but this benefit disappears by one year.
- There is evidence to suggest that students do perceive benefit from ethics courses.
- Although instructors are trained, variation in assessments between groups are still perceived by students.
- Spatial intelligence, the power to perceive form and give visual shape to ideas, is equally important.
- The intuition perceives patterns and rhythms.
- A person who is conscious selectively perceives sensations, attending to some while filtering out others.
Synonyms
discern, recognize, become cognizant of, become aware of, become conscious of, come to know, get to know, tell, distinguish, grasp, understand, take in, make out, find, identify, hit on, comprehend, apprehend, figure out, deduce, conclude, see, discover, learn, appreciate, realize, ascertain, sense, divine, intuit
1. 1.1 Become aware of (something) by the use of one of the senses, especially that of sight.
  察觉，感觉；看出
  he perceived the faintest of flushes creeping up her neck
  他察觉到她的脖子上冒出了一丝红晕。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our eyes perceive different wavelengths of light as color, but this sense isn't very refined.
  The properties perceived by other senses are also conveyed by contact of some kind.
  It is true that we can perceive things even though we are not conscious of perceiving them.
  Scientists still do not know exactly how we hear and perceive sounds.
  This means that if we make an effort when we perceive orange, we sense a variety of shades.
  In its broadest sense, aesthetics refers to the ability to perceive through the senses.
  Temperature, tannins and the effervescence of sparkling wines are perceived through the sense of touch in the mouth.
  The first appeared for just 15 milliseconds - too quick to be consciously perceived by the viewer.
  No two persons can ever, in this sense, perceive the same item: nothing at all is publicly perceptible.
  The robe that Euripides's Medea sends as a gift glues together the flesh and the bones of her rival; but the sense that perceives the progress of this deadly confusion is sight.
  The basic idea is that when you perceive the world then you take information in through your senses and of course this is exactly what we believe today.
  Thus, there may be benefits to learning to perceive signals against particular backgrounds.
  As humans, our five senses are basic ways through which we perceive the world.
  We perceive our environment via our senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing, sight.
  English speakers understand that in perceiving tomatoes, grapes, etc one is acquainted with sensuous features.
  This is described as naturalism - the artist paints with an untrained mind, and portrays things in the way that he understands and perceives them.
  Emotional experiencing is generally considered to be synonymous with feeling, which can be understood as having or perceiving a physical sensation or a state of mind.
  You're actually perceiving it through your senses and through an exploration of what the idea might be perceived through your senses.
  Sweet and bitter mingled together for there were no senses to perceive them.
  Synonyms
  see, make out, pick out, discern, detect, catch sight of, spot, observe, glimpse, notice, recognize, identify
2Interpret or look on (someone or something) in a particular way; regard as.
把（人，物）看作，认为
if Guy does not perceive himself as disabled, nobody else should
如果盖伊不把自己看作残疾人，别人就谁也不该这么看。
with object and infinitive some geographers perceive hydrology to be a separate field of scientific inquiry
有些地理学家将水文学看作科学探索的一个独立领域。
Example sentencesExamples
- People perceive me as a different character to what I actually am.
- Also, the survival of this fortified native centre implies they were not perceived as a threat to Rome.
- However, for us our own branding has been an issue as people perceive us as a data company, so we have to work hard to get out the message about our voice and converged abilities.
- For whatever reason, they seem to have a chip on their shoulders about how they are perceived by outsiders.
- I believe that the name given to you by your parents can have a great bearing on your life, an influence on the person you become and the way in which people perceive you.
- And besides, Smith says she's stopped worrying about how people perceive her.
- People often perceive that these illnesses only happen to older people, however this clearly isn't the case.
- Nevertheless, some school clubs still perceived a need for the condition.
- In 2002, pop music is widely perceived to be manufactured, bland and glossy.
- Some asthmatic patients perceive the severity of their disease rather poorly.
- Additionally, the respondents perceived lack of personal resources and lack of interest among perioperative nurses to be possible barriers.
- No wonder: the genuinely erotic is often perceived as a threat by the status quo, even in France.
- The silence could have been perceived in two different ways, I think.
- He said people often perceived vehicles to be going faster than they really were.
- I think people would perceive him a little differently from how they did in the '70s.
- It would annoy me if that was what people perceived me to be here for.
- To come out to boos is one of the most strident messages you can receive about the way you are perceived as a person.
- Students generally perceive accounting as boring and dull.
- The atmosphere of that period had been perceived at the time as posing a threat to their existence.
- I still find myself wondering how people perceive me as I move through this world.
Synonyms
look on, view, regard, consider, think of, judge, deem, appraise, assess, adjudge, figure, figure out, size up, value, rate, suppose, think, sum up, weigh up

Origin

Middle English: from a variant of Old French perçoivre, from Latin percipere ‘seize, understand’, from per- ‘entirely’ + capere ‘take’.

单词	perceive
释义	Definition of perceive in English: perceive verb pəˈsiːvpərˈsiv [with object] 1Become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand. 认识到，意识到；理解 his mouth fell open as he perceived the truth 当他意识到真相时，他吃惊得张大了嘴巴。 with clause he was quick to perceive that there was little future in such arguments 他很快意识到这样的争论不会有什么结果。 Example sentencesExamples Her ability to understand, to perceive the nature of the truth was what was being tested. Patients initially perceive a benefit while being treated, but this benefit disappears by one year. There is evidence to suggest that students do perceive benefit from ethics courses. Congress was a long way from conceiving itself to have this power or perceiving a need to exercise it. Although instructors are trained, variation in assessments between groups are still perceived by students. Spatial intelligence, the power to perceive form and give visual shape to ideas, is equally important. I find it funny how people always forget to put into perspective what was perceived at the time. You could say that we perceive the world with the eye of the intellect, or the eye of the emotive self, but that's not the eye that perceives divine reality. The respondents perceived few barriers in relation to themselves. People admire that quiet charm, perceiving great depth and understanding behind that gentle manner. I was perceiving in terms of the topography and the topographical maps I had seen. Furthermore, faculty also perceived a lack of access to equipment and facilities. We actually learn to perceive sounds and words from the continuous stream of speech. For some, this discovery led them to perceive a lack in Australian society of shared moral values and of encouragement to live well. The intuition perceives patterns and rhythms. The patient perceives a distorted reality but is usually unaware that he is ill. Consequently, people within the same community may not perceive risk in the same way as their neighbours. Judging and perceiving characteristics may be the hardest to understand. Smokers clearly perceive benefits from smoking, otherwise they would not pay to do it. A person who is conscious selectively perceives sensations, attending to some while filtering out others. Synonyms discern, recognize, become cognizant of, become aware of, become conscious of, get/come to know, tell, distinguish, grasp, understand, take in, make out, find, identify, hit on, comprehend, apprehend, figure out, deduce, conclude, see, discover, learn, appreciate, realize, ascertain, sense, divine, intuit informal catch on to, have an aha moment British informal twig rare cognize 1.1 Become aware of (something) by the use of one of the senses, especially that of sight. 察觉，感觉；看出 he perceived the faintest of flushes creeping up her neck 他察觉到她的脖子上冒出了一丝红晕。 Example sentencesExamples Temperature, tannins and the effervescence of sparkling wines are perceived through the sense of touch in the mouth. No two persons can ever, in this sense, perceive the same item: nothing at all is publicly perceptible. English speakers understand that in perceiving tomatoes, grapes, etc one is acquainted with sensuous features. As humans, our five senses are basic ways through which we perceive the world. Sweet and bitter mingled together for there were no senses to perceive them. We perceive our environment via our senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing, sight. Thus, there may be benefits to learning to perceive signals against particular backgrounds. This means that if we make an effort when we perceive orange, we sense a variety of shades. This is described as naturalism - the artist paints with an untrained mind, and portrays things in the way that he understands and perceives them. In its broadest sense, aesthetics refers to the ability to perceive through the senses. Our eyes perceive different wavelengths of light as color, but this sense isn't very refined. You're actually perceiving it through your senses and through an exploration of what the idea might be perceived through your senses. The robe that Euripides's Medea sends as a gift glues together the flesh and the bones of her rival; but the sense that perceives the progress of this deadly confusion is sight. The basic idea is that when you perceive the world then you take information in through your senses and of course this is exactly what we believe today. It is true that we can perceive things even though we are not conscious of perceiving them. The properties perceived by other senses are also conveyed by contact of some kind. Emotional experiencing is generally considered to be synonymous with feeling, which can be understood as having or perceiving a physical sensation or a state of mind. The first appeared for just 15 milliseconds - too quick to be consciously perceived by the viewer. Scientists still do not know exactly how we hear and perceive sounds. Synonyms see, make out, pick out, discern, detect, catch sight of, spot, observe, glimpse, notice, recognize, identify hear, smell, sniff (out), scent, nose out, feel, taste, sense 2Interpret or regard (someone or something) in a particular way. 把（人，物）看作，认为 if Guy does not perceive himself as disabled, nobody else should 如果盖伊不把自己看作残疾人，别人就谁也不该这么看。 with object and infinitive some geographers perceive hydrology to be a separate field of scientific enquiry 有些地理学家将水文学看作科学探索的一个独立领域。 Example sentencesExamples He said people often perceived vehicles to be going faster than they really were. Additionally, the respondents perceived lack of personal resources and lack of interest among perioperative nurses to be possible barriers. People often perceive that these illnesses only happen to older people, however this clearly isn't the case. Students generally perceive accounting as boring and dull. To come out to boos is one of the most strident messages you can receive about the way you are perceived as a person. It would annoy me if that was what people perceived me to be here for. I think people would perceive him a little differently from how they did in the '70s. People perceive me as a different character to what I actually am. In 2002, pop music is widely perceived to be manufactured, bland and glossy. Some asthmatic patients perceive the severity of their disease rather poorly. I believe that the name given to you by your parents can have a great bearing on your life, an influence on the person you become and the way in which people perceive you. Also, the survival of this fortified native centre implies they were not perceived as a threat to Rome. Nevertheless, some school clubs still perceived a need for the condition. The silence could have been perceived in two different ways, I think. I still find myself wondering how people perceive me as I move through this world. No wonder: the genuinely erotic is often perceived as a threat by the status quo, even in France. The atmosphere of that period had been perceived at the time as posing a threat to their existence. For whatever reason, they seem to have a chip on their shoulders about how they are perceived by outsiders. And besides, Smith says she's stopped worrying about how people perceive her. However, for us our own branding has been an issue as people perceive us as a data company, so we have to work hard to get out the message about our voice and converged abilities. Synonyms look on, view, regard, consider, think of, judge, deem, appraise, assess, adjudge, figure (out), size up, value, rate, suppose, think, sum up, weigh up Derivatives perceivable adjective pəˈsiːvəb(ə)lpərˈsivəb(ə)l It translates these purported interactions into a mode perceivable and tangible to man. Example sentencesExamples The monarch butterfly can discern tastes 12,0000 times more subtle than those perceivable by human taste buds. Hence we see things in the dark: our brains fill in what is most likely there, what might be there, or what we fear could be there, based on small clues from what actually is perceivable there. According to Descartes, the mind is one sort of substance, and body another, because it is possible to form a conception of the mind and a conception of body by way of totally separate sets of clearly and distinctly perceivable attributes. Science is that branch of knowledge which deals with the material world, the world and natural phenomena that are observable, measurable and perceivable by the senses. perceiver noun I actually think in that moment we became, in some ways, different people, different journalists, different perceivers of the world. Example sentencesExamples Somehow it does not seem appropriate to speak of the first four cases listed here as involving the unconscious mind, even though the perceivers are not aware of what they are perceiving. In other words, knowledge is always of a reality that exists independently of knowers and perceivers. Aesthetics and the theory of beauty are not the same, because the theory of beauty may be concentrated on objects and appearances but aesthetics is concerned with perceptions and perceivers. The survey did, however, conclude that there were massive differences in perceptions of age according to how old the perceiver was. Origin Middle English: from a variant of Old French perçoivre, from Latin percipere 'seize, understand', from per- 'entirely' + capere 'take'. capable from mid 16th century: The first recorded sense of this was ‘able to take in’, physically or mentally. It comes from Latin capere ‘take or hold’ which is found in many other English words including: accept (Late Middle English) from ad- ‘to’ and capere; anticipation (Late Middle English) ‘acting or taking in advance’; capacity (Late Middle English) ‘ability to hold’; caption (Late Middle English) originally an act of capture; captive (Late Middle English); catch (Middle English); chase (Middle English); conceive (Middle English) literally ‘take together’; except (Late Middle English) ‘take out of’; incapacity (early 17th century) inability to hold; intercept (Late Middle English) to take between; perceive (Middle English) to hold entirely; prince; receive (Middle English) ‘take back’; susceptible (early 17th century) literally ‘that can be taken from below’. Rhymes achieve, believe, breve, cleave, conceive, deceive, eve, greave, grieve, heave, interleave, interweave, khedive, leave, misconceive, naive, Neve, peeve, reave, receive, reive, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, sheave, sleeve, steeve, Steve, Tananarive, Tel Aviv, thieve, underachieve, upheave, weave, we've, Yves Definition of perceive in US English: perceive verbpərˈsivpərˈsēv [with object] 1Become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand. 认识到，意识到；理解 his mouth fell open as he perceived the truth 当他意识到真相时，他吃惊得张大了嘴巴。 with clause he was quick to perceive that there was little future in such arguments 他很快意识到这样的争论不会有什么结果。 Example sentencesExamples Furthermore, faculty also perceived a lack of access to equipment and facilities. People admire that quiet charm, perceiving great depth and understanding behind that gentle manner. I was perceiving in terms of the topography and the topographical maps I had seen. The respondents perceived few barriers in relation to themselves. Judging and perceiving characteristics may be the hardest to understand. For some, this discovery led them to perceive a lack in Australian society of shared moral values and of encouragement to live well. Consequently, people within the same community may not perceive risk in the same way as their neighbours. We actually learn to perceive sounds and words from the continuous stream of speech. The patient perceives a distorted reality but is usually unaware that he is ill. You could say that we perceive the world with the eye of the intellect, or the eye of the emotive self, but that's not the eye that perceives divine reality. Her ability to understand, to perceive the nature of the truth was what was being tested. Congress was a long way from conceiving itself to have this power or perceiving a need to exercise it. I find it funny how people always forget to put into perspective what was perceived at the time. Smokers clearly perceive benefits from smoking, otherwise they would not pay to do it. Patients initially perceive a benefit while being treated, but this benefit disappears by one year. There is evidence to suggest that students do perceive benefit from ethics courses. Although instructors are trained, variation in assessments between groups are still perceived by students. Spatial intelligence, the power to perceive form and give visual shape to ideas, is equally important. The intuition perceives patterns and rhythms. A person who is conscious selectively perceives sensations, attending to some while filtering out others. Synonyms discern, recognize, become cognizant of, become aware of, become conscious of, come to know, get to know, tell, distinguish, grasp, understand, take in, make out, find, identify, hit on, comprehend, apprehend, figure out, deduce, conclude, see, discover, learn, appreciate, realize, ascertain, sense, divine, intuit 1.1 Become aware of (something) by the use of one of the senses, especially that of sight. 察觉，感觉；看出 he perceived the faintest of flushes creeping up her neck 他察觉到她的脖子上冒出了一丝红晕。 Example sentencesExamples Our eyes perceive different wavelengths of light as color, but this sense isn't very refined. The properties perceived by other senses are also conveyed by contact of some kind. It is true that we can perceive things even though we are not conscious of perceiving them. Scientists still do not know exactly how we hear and perceive sounds. This means that if we make an effort when we perceive orange, we sense a variety of shades. In its broadest sense, aesthetics refers to the ability to perceive through the senses. Temperature, tannins and the effervescence of sparkling wines are perceived through the sense of touch in the mouth. The first appeared for just 15 milliseconds - too quick to be consciously perceived by the viewer. No two persons can ever, in this sense, perceive the same item: nothing at all is publicly perceptible. The robe that Euripides's Medea sends as a gift glues together the flesh and the bones of her rival; but the sense that perceives the progress of this deadly confusion is sight. The basic idea is that when you perceive the world then you take information in through your senses and of course this is exactly what we believe today. Thus, there may be benefits to learning to perceive signals against particular backgrounds. As humans, our five senses are basic ways through which we perceive the world. We perceive our environment via our senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing, sight. English speakers understand that in perceiving tomatoes, grapes, etc one is acquainted with sensuous features. This is described as naturalism - the artist paints with an untrained mind, and portrays things in the way that he understands and perceives them. Emotional experiencing is generally considered to be synonymous with feeling, which can be understood as having or perceiving a physical sensation or a state of mind. You're actually perceiving it through your senses and through an exploration of what the idea might be perceived through your senses. Sweet and bitter mingled together for there were no senses to perceive them. Synonyms see, make out, pick out, discern, detect, catch sight of, spot, observe, glimpse, notice, recognize, identify 2Interpret or look on (someone or something) in a particular way; regard as. 把（人，物）看作，认为 if Guy does not perceive himself as disabled, nobody else should 如果盖伊不把自己看作残疾人，别人就谁也不该这么看。 with object and infinitive some geographers perceive hydrology to be a separate field of scientific inquiry 有些地理学家将水文学看作科学探索的一个独立领域。 Example sentencesExamples People perceive me as a different character to what I actually am. Also, the survival of this fortified native centre implies they were not perceived as a threat to Rome. However, for us our own branding has been an issue as people perceive us as a data company, so we have to work hard to get out the message about our voice and converged abilities. For whatever reason, they seem to have a chip on their shoulders about how they are perceived by outsiders. I believe that the name given to you by your parents can have a great bearing on your life, an influence on the person you become and the way in which people perceive you. And besides, Smith says she's stopped worrying about how people perceive her. People often perceive that these illnesses only happen to older people, however this clearly isn't the case. Nevertheless, some school clubs still perceived a need for the condition. In 2002, pop music is widely perceived to be manufactured, bland and glossy. Some asthmatic patients perceive the severity of their disease rather poorly. Additionally, the respondents perceived lack of personal resources and lack of interest among perioperative nurses to be possible barriers. No wonder: the genuinely erotic is often perceived as a threat by the status quo, even in France. The silence could have been perceived in two different ways, I think. He said people often perceived vehicles to be going faster than they really were. I think people would perceive him a little differently from how they did in the '70s. It would annoy me if that was what people perceived me to be here for. To come out to boos is one of the most strident messages you can receive about the way you are perceived as a person. Students generally perceive accounting as boring and dull. The atmosphere of that period had been perceived at the time as posing a threat to their existence. I still find myself wondering how people perceive me as I move through this world. Synonyms look on, view, regard, consider, think of, judge, deem, appraise, assess, adjudge, figure, figure out, size up, value, rate, suppose, think, sum up, weigh up Origin Middle English: from a variant of Old French perçoivre, from Latin percipere ‘seize, understand’, from per- ‘entirely’ + capere ‘take’.
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