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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perceive
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ And - because this is not the same thing - which aspects of life do we perceive as zero or nonzero sum?
▪ Capitalism may be perceived as unfair, and needing reform, but it is also perceived as incapable of fundamental transformation.
▪ Presumably, it is because businesses are perceived as active and affluent while families are perceived as passive and poor.
▪ A threat to any one of these is therefore perceived as threatening the others.
▪ Of course, moving on to the internet is perceived as risky.
often
▪ However, managerial approaches are often perceived to be less effective than physical action.
▪ The department or group that masterminds the change is often perceived to be the only one who can cope with it.
widely
▪ A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article.
▪ But the reverse is true when an attorney represents a person who is obviously guilty or whose guilt is widely perceived.
▪ A second important barrier is that factoring is widely perceived to be expensive.
▪ The President was widely perceived, by this time, as having gone from blunder to blunder.
▪ Both Mrs Thatcher and Mr Kinnock are widely perceived to be liabilities to their parties.
■ NOUN
need
▪ There was still a perceived need for a head of trading.
▪ It was based not on existing capabilities and resources, but rather on the perceived need for quick financial profit.
▪ But he had long perceived the need to shift focus at will, from one scale or type of history to another.
object
▪ Dominating such studies has been a tendency to perceive objects as being reflective in a relatively passive sense.
people
▪ Only the people perceived him for what he was-the occupant of the authentic center.
▪ Many older disabled people may also perceive themselves as ageing more rapidly than their non-disabled contemporaries.
▪ To what extent do the people in these countries perceive government as having an effect on them as individuals?
▪ I dated Courtney Love for a while and that was another education on how people perceive.
▪ Her interest in them as people was quickly perceived and reciprocated.
▪ Some people perceive moving together solely as a method for guides and their parties, and ignore it completely.
▪ We were concerned with whether people perceived government as having an effect on them, their families, and their communities.
problem
▪ Tawney perceived the same problem throughout his career of commentary on the education system.
▪ Teachers perceived that these problems had been cut roughly in half among ninth-graders.
▪ Rational techniques were introduced to try to solve what were perceived to be problems at the time.
▪ The user group perceives a problem, which is analysed, and potential solutions scrutinized.
▪ Sufferers constantly compare themselves with others, check their appearance, use clothing to conceal perceived problem and may resort to surgery.
▪ Signs of the disorder include picking at the skin, frequently touching the perceived problem area, excessive dieting or exercise.
▪ While most participants perceived the problem they differed somewhat over the matter of its resolution.
threat
▪ This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine.
▪ They damned the no-nonsense, authoritarian government, which peremptorily squashed even the smallest perceived threat to social peace.
▪ Events and situations that you perceive as threats or challenges are called stressors.
▪ And like all perceived threats, the dangers are inflated.
▪ The children targeted were a public eyesore, nuisance, or perceived threat.
world
▪ This exchange of energy explains how we perceive the world.
▪ And perceive his world, select what to recall from memory, then decide how to act?
▪ These relationships depend on how they see or perceive the world outside their inner world.
▪ People perceive the world as though it were guiding and constraining them.
▪ In the traditional view a person perceives the world around him and acts upon it to make it known to him.
▪ Men still define and control how people should perceive the world.
▪ She experimented with her new optic, shifting her patch to her right eye and perceiving the world through heat patterns.
▪ We have no mental conception of what it is like to perceive the world through antennae.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Although Jane thought her father seemed anxious and uneasy, Susan did not perceive any change in his looks or ways.
▪ Emma had perceived a certain bitterness in his tone.
▪ If they perceive that a military challenge threatens their country's interests, they will not hesitate to fight.
▪ The human eye is capable of perceiving thousands of insignificant details.
▪ The prime minister will only resign if he perceives there is no other way out of the crisis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the reverse is true when an attorney represents a person who is obviously guilty or whose guilt is widely perceived.
▪ Empirical research indicates that young people perceive non-drinkers lacking in these qualities.
▪ However, Labour's urban policy can not be perceived as anything other than meagre.
▪ However, the role of facilitator can only be successful if others perceive training as important.
▪ Is it sufficient that he perceives a suspicion of bias, or must he perceive the higher hurdle of likelihood?
▪ So the primafacie plausible assumption that any creature able to perceive convexity would also be aware of connectedness is false.
▪ Some preventive strategies and vaccines are not used because of a perceived lack of cost-effectiveness.
▪ The commercial photograph is therefore not perceived as primarily documenting real life.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perceive

Perceive \Per*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perceived; p. pr. & vb. n. Perceiving.] [OF. percevoir, perceveir, L. percipere, perceptum; per (see Per-) + capere to take, receive. See Capacious, and cf. Perception.]

  1. To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord.
    --Reid.

  2. To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand.

    Jesus perceived their wickedness.
    --Matt. xxii. 18.

    You may, fair lady, Perceive I speak sincerely.
    --Shak.

    Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understandings, we are still in the dark.
    --Locke.

  3. To be affected of influented by. [R.]

    The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air here below.
    --Bacon.

    Syn: To discern; distinguish; observe; see; feel; know; understand.

    Usage: To Perceive, Discern. To perceive a thing is to apprehend it as presented to the senses or the intellect; to discern is to mark differences, or to see a thing as distinguished from others around it. We may perceive two persons afar off without being able to discern whether they are men or women. Hence, discern is often used of an act of the senses or the mind involving close, discriminating, analytical attention. We perceive that which is clear or obvious; we discern that which requires much attention to get an idea of it. ``We perceive light, darkness, colors, or the truth or falsehood of anything. We discern characters, motives, the tendency and consequences of actions, etc.''
    --Crabb.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perceive

c.1300, via Anglo-French parceif, Old North French *perceivre (Old French perçoivre) "perceive, notice, see; recognize, understand," from Latin percipere "obtain, gather, seize entirely, take possession of," also, figuratively, "to grasp with the mind, learn, comprehend," literally "to take entirely," from per "thoroughly" (see per) + capere "to grasp, take" (see capable).\n

\nReplaced Old English ongietan. Both the Latin senses were in Old French, though the primary sense of Modern French percevoir is literal, "to receive, collect" (rents, taxes, etc.), while English uses the word almost always in the metaphorical sense. Related: Perceived; perceiving.

Wiktionary
perceive

vb. To see, to be aware of, to understand.

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WordNet
perceive

  1. v. to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" [syn: comprehend]

  2. become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest"

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Usage examples of "perceive".

It was useless to take them to task, to inform them that this behaviour instead of easing their plight only brought out the worst in their superiors and made them the butt of every perceived mistake aboard ship.

Are we to think that a being knowing itself must contain diversity, that self-knowledge can be affirmed only when some one phase of the self perceives other phases, and that therefore an absolutely simplex entity would be equally incapable of introversion and of self-awareness?

Often, the leaders and practitioners of absolutist religions were unable to perceive any middle ground or recognize that the truth might draw upon and embrace apparently contradictory doctrines.

I perceived that those who have confirmed themselves in favor of nature and of human prudence would not make the acknowledgment because the natural light flowing in from below would immediately extinguish the spiritual light flowing in from above.

He is not acoward for perceiving the true extent of the forces arrayed against us.

If the victim acquiesces, the sadistic offender may perceive her as an active participant in the assault.

For all who knew and loved him then perceived That there was drawn an adamantine veil Between his heart and mind,--both unrelieved Wrought in his brain and bosom separate strife.

It was also granted me to perceive that there issued from this enjoyment as from their fountainhead the enjoyments of evils of all kinds, such as adultery, revenge, fraud, slander, and evil-doing in general.

They know and perceive, therefore, that murder, adultery, theft and false witness are sins and accordingly shun them on that account.

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If the assemblage point aligns emanations inside the cocoon in a position different from its normal one, the human senses perceive in inconceivable ways.

These factors, however unconsciously perceived by the child, allect important developmental decisions.

From what he remembered of his past, he contemplated how his howlie senses would perceive his ancestral homeworld.

I was listening without answering one word, but, after all, I was listening, and De la Haye, perceiving his advantage, would not leave me, and ordered dinner.

In applying this reasoning to the earth, we perceive that a certain influence is due to the difference of temperature of the ethereal medium surrounding the earth, at perihelion and aphelion, being least at the former, and greatest at the latter.