The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.-
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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is perceived. vb. (present participle of perceive English)
Usage examples of "perceiving".
Camilla, perceiving him, bent her head, and began gathering some flowers.
Eugenia still in her room, who, perceiving her increased emotion, tenderly enquired, if there were any new cause.
Sir Sedley Clarendel, who, as if now first perceiving them, said to Mrs.
Arlbery, perceiving a point gained, determined to enforce the blow, and then leave her to her reflections.
Indiana to Miss Margland, and perceiving that Edgar was conversing with Dr.
And flew frantic about the room, looking for any means of escape, yet perceiving only the window, whence she must be dashed to destruction.
The harmonic cortical map has the job of perceiving these relationships.
Our perception of music depends in obvious ways on our systems for perceiving and processing sound.
The procedure for calculating musicality would be a simulation of the operation of those parts of the brain that play a role in perceiving music.
The main result of perceiving speech is understanding the semantics of what is being said.
The benefits of perceiving this information have provided the selective pressure that has driven the evolution of the ability to perceive musicality.
Special perception of repetition is required in a system that is designed to work when perceiving information that is not repetitive.
The characteristics of a perceptual system that enable it to automatically recognise repetitive sub-sequences also cause that system to fail when it is perceiving sequences that contain non-freely repeating subsequences.
Yet the brain is fully capable of perceiving non-zero musicality in music that has no melody at all.
Neural activity when perceiving the speech is more spread out, and the activity is not restricted to any portion of the cortical map.