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perceive English

Meaning perceive meaning

What does perceive mean?
Definitions in simple English

perceive Verb

— If you perceive something, you notice it through one of your senses (you see it, touch it, smell it, hear it, or taste it); to be aware of something. He was unable to perceive any difference at all in the room after the changes. — If you perceive something, you believe it or understand it. Education is widely perceived as a powerful way to improve the quality of life.

perceive

— verb to become aware of through the senses I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon — verb become conscious of She finally perceived the futility of her protest

Synonyms perceive synonyms

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perceive English » English

see notice understand observe feel sense behold know discern realize comprehend view detect look at grasp find realise descry apprehend recognize recognise note espy discover catch spot experience touch remark learn get become aware of spy sight make out look hear find out catch sight of become aware appreciate apperceive watch taste take notice see through register meet with glimpse foresee

Topics perceive topics

What do people use perceive to talk about?
Person

Sense, perceive
Person Sense, perceive

See
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Notice
Language and thought Think

Learn
Language and thought Think

Understand

Conjugation perceive conjugation

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perceive · verb

Examples perceive examples

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Simple sentences

I perceive myself as my own god.
There are wavelengths of light that the human eye cannot perceive.
We tend to perceive what we expect to perceive.
I have antennae for other people, and perceive how they feel.
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
Men sometimes perceive expressing emotions as a sign of weakness.
There is an opportunity everywhere, you just have to perceive it.
I perceive by your face that you have good news.
There is no such thing as true objectivity. We all perceive the world subjectively, through the prism of our experiences and beliefs.

Movie subtitles

For God doth know, so shall the world perceive that I have turned away my former self, so shall I those that kept me company.
Didst perceive the act of the poisoning? - I did very well note.
I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no truth in your report.
Now, my lord, what shall we do. if we perceive that the Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?
I do perceive I have done some offense. which seems disgracious in the city's eye. and that you come to reprehend my ignorance.
We cannot move until we perceive Miki's design.
This, I perceive, is Sir Hugo Baskerville, the man who started all the trouble.
So now, as i unwrap, i want you to keep your eyes open, and i want you to describe to me the various shadings of light as you perceive it.
If you look deep into the stone. you will perceive the tiniest discoloration.
Didst perceive? Very well, my lord.
It took you a long time to perceive that I am no longer human.
My word, sir, I perceive we are travelling at a goodish rate.
Now I perceive thou art a reverend father.
And I perceive that you are both approximately the same size.
I perceive somebody's been talking behind my back. telling the truth.
A man, I perceive, of remarkable shrewdness.
I perceive that you have a water bag on your shoulder.
Didst perceive the act of the poisoning?
I might look into a mirror and perceive my soul. and supposing it was as hideous as yours?
Mr. Schmidt, as we will soon perceive, has a vested interest in the ruins of a concentration camp, for once, some 17 years ago, his name was gunther lutze.
Mr. Radin is rich, eccentric and single-minded- how rich, we can already perceive.
Yes. I have walked with kings and tycoons, as you perceive, mrs. Langsford.
If you look deep into the stone, you will perceive the tiniest discolouration.
And despite my failure with these bright baubles, I perceive you cannot be bribed.
I perceive now how difficult it is to do a good deed in this dirty world.
From your mother you've inherited a dangerous inability to perceive reality.
Do you perceive in all this noble company where most you owe obedience?
If more thou dost perceive, let me know more.
Yet if you please to hold him off awhile you shall by that perceive him and his means.
Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?
As I caress your body, I perceive constant variations.
He is, as you will perceive, fit and well-nourished.
Therefore I shall refuse to perceive you.
And can we not perceive what we lose unceasingly with the years?

News and current affairs

The central reason is despairingly simple: women's lives are not valued, and even women themselves perceive their suffering as being unavoidable.
Despite the success and popularity of programs like ERASMUS, citizens don't perceive the EU's contribution to superior education or training.
Credit default swaps (CDS) of major southern European banks trade slightly lower than the CDS of their sovereign states, indicating that the market does not perceive the latter as able to support the former.
Even non-economically-minded voters perceive the striking difference with the US, where productivity growth has skyrocketed since the mid-1990s and unemployment is far lower.
To acquire an insight into how people from other cultures perceive the world, what is required is knowledge of how they live and experience life.
For the grievances and harm suffered daily by millions of victims and refugees remain as gruesome as ever, notwithstanding the fatigue from the prolonged conflict that some may perceive.
Chinese cynicism and spontaneous selfishness, however, is now tempered by what they perceive as growing recognition of their unique status.
That resentment remains, sustained in part by historical grievances, but the Japanese have now come to perceive themselves as Asians, helped by their realization that the economic miracle that they initiated in the region has gone well beyond them.
This form of political racketeering may win elections, but it sabotages any opportunity to experience, or to perceive, politics as a process that can contribute to global development.
There is no more room for amateur central banks trying to exploit what they perceive as a residual domestic money illusion.
At the same time, they watch, perceive, and experience the freedom of Apollonian or Platonic spirituality of the game going on in the field.
This suggests that a majority of Germans still do not yet perceive economic weakness as more important than other, more short-term issues.
We see the menace of this tendency constantly nowadays, but we perceive it in such a seemingly unthreatening way that we may well become accustomed to it rather than arresting it.
Meltdown fears, even if remote, directly raise the premium that savers are willing to pay for bonds that they perceive as the most reliable, much as the premium for gold rises.
At the same time, they perceive their country to be marginalized, discriminated against, and the target of aggressive international condemnation.
In addition, international financial markets perceive Colombia's economy as being fundamentally sound.
Thus, by focusing on the (arbitrary) date of 2015, we fail to perceive the fundamental change that the MDGs represent.
How can a country perceive itself, and be perceived by others, as a key regional actor if it finds itself marginalized at the critical moment?
According to most experts, linguistic processes shape the way people perceive the world, how they live their lives, and, ultimately, their mindset.
Asked not about their motivations, but about their identities, the students from the College - with the exception of the Germans - do not naturally and spontaneously perceive themselves as Europeans first.
For Greeks, Italians, and many French, evading taxes is a kind of national pastime, which some even perceive as a moral duty.
The way voters respond reflects the way they perceive recent history and what they want for themselves and their families in the future.
The nature of illusion is that we mistake what we perceive for reality.

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