Definitions for perceive
pərˈsivper·ceive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 4 votes

1. perceive, comprehendverb

   to become aware of through the senses

   "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon"

2. perceiveverb

   become conscious of

   "She finally perceived the futility of her protest"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.8 / 4 votes

1. perceiveverb

   To see, to be aware of, to understand.

2. Etymology: From perceiven, from percevoir, perceveir, from percipere, past participle perceptus, from per + capere; see capable. Compare conceive, deceive, receive.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To PERCEIVEverb

   Etymology: percipio, Lat.

   1. To discover by some sensible effects.

   Consider,
   When you above perceive me like a crow,
   That it is place which lessens and sets off. William Shakespeare.

   2. To know; to observe.

   Jesus perceived in his spirit, that they so reasoned within themselves. Mark ii. 8.

   His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not. Job xiv. 21.

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

   How do they come to know that themselves think; when they themselves do not perceive it. John Locke.

   3. To be affected by.

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

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. perceive

   Perception (from Latin perceptio 'gathering, receiving') is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. Vision involves light striking the retina of the eye; smell is mediated by odor molecules; and hearing involves pressure waves. Perception is not only the passive receipt of these signals, but it is also shaped by the recipient's learning, memory, expectation, and attention. Sensory input is a process that transforms this low-level information to higher-level information (e.g., extracts shapes for object recognition). The process that follows connects a person's concepts and expectations (or knowledge), restorative and selective mechanisms (such as attention) that influence perception. Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness. Since the rise of experimental psychology in the 19th century, psychology's understanding of perception has progressed by combining a variety of techniques. Psychophysics quantitatively describes the relationships between the physical qualities of the sensory input and perception. Sensory neuroscience studies the neural mechanisms underlying perception. Perceptual systems can also be studied computationally, in terms of the information they process. Perceptual issues in philosophy include the extent to which sensory qualities such as sound, smell or color exist in objective reality rather than in the mind of the perceiver.Although people traditionally viewed the senses as passive receptors, the study of illusions and ambiguous images has demonstrated that the brain's perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously attempt to make sense of their input. There is still active debate about the extent to which perception is an active process of hypothesis testing, analogous to science, or whether realistic sensory information is rich enough to make this process unnecessary.The perceptual systems of the brain enable individuals to see the world around them as stable, even though the sensory information is typically incomplete and rapidly varying. Human and other animal brains are structured in a modular way, with different areas processing different kinds of sensory information. Some of these modules take the form of sensory maps, mapping some aspect of the world across part of the brain's surface. These different modules are interconnected and influence each other. For instance, taste is strongly influenced by smell.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Perceiveverb

   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

2. Perceiveverb

   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

3. Perceiveverb

   to be affected of influented by

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Perceive

   per-sēv′, v.t. to become aware of through the senses: to get knowledge of by the mind: to see: to understand: to discern.—adj. Perceiv′able (same as Perceptible).—adv. Perceiv′ably (same as Perceptibly).—ns. Perceiv′er; Perceiv′ing (Bacon), perception. [O. Fr. percever—L. percipĕre, perceptum—per, perfectly, capĕre, to take.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. perceive

   To be aware of through the senses.

   He did perceive her intention accurately as they were so loving towards each other.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 12, 2020  

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British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'perceive' in Verbs Frequency: #573

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of perceive in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of perceive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of perceive in a Sentence

1. Joe Yazhuo Kong:

   Nostalgia is a predominately positive emotion that people easily perceive in their lives, for instance, people can feel happy and peaceful when browsing their pictures grouped with family or friends.

2. Christopher Chang:

   What we do is expose the value proposition to them such that it outweighs what they perceive as the risks, it’s no different from you getting up in the morning and getting in a car, bus or subway and going to work and understanding that there is an innate risk in doing so. It’s not our job to basically tell you what you think is risky or not.

3. Paul Levin:

   From the Turkish perspective they are saying : Look, Sweden,( if) you want to join a military alliance where we are one of the members then you have to respect our national security perspective, we perceive of these groups as national security threats. They( Turkey) make the same demands over other NATO member states but they don't have the same leverage as they do now that Sweden is waiting to come in.

4. Cardinal John Newman:

   Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

5. Aristotle:

   To perceive is to suffer.

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