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Definitions for perceive
pərˈsivper·ceive
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Princeton's WordNet
perceive, comprehendverb
to become aware of through the senses
"I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon"
perceiveverb
become conscious of
"She finally perceived the futility of her protest"
Wiktionary
perceiveverb
To see, to be aware of, to understand.
Etymology: From perceiven, from percevoir, perceveir, from percipere, past participle perceptus, from per + capere; see capable. Compare conceive, deceive, receive.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To PERCEIVEverb
Etymology: percipio, Lat.
Consider,
When you above perceive me like a crow,
That it is place which lessens and sets off. William Shakespeare.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.
The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air here below. Francis Bacon.
Wikipedia
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.
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perceive
To perceive means to become aware or conscious of something through the senses such as sight, sound, touch, smell, or taste. It also refers to the interpretation or understanding of information or circumstances, based on one's own mental and emotional processing.
Webster Dictionary
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
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
Perceiveverb
to be affected of influented by
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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 Contribution
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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The numerical value of perceive in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
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The numerical value of perceive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of perceive in a Sentence
We know that benzodiazepines and opioids can suppress your breathing, on the other hand, we have all these physicians who have been prescribing opioids and benzos together for years to tens of millions of patients... [ and ] maybe don't perceive this to be as big a risk.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
One : those who' pass' may think that they are without evidence of eye disease though they may be' false negative' and might delay in seeking care with the development of symptoms, thinking that they had already had an eye exam, and, two, those under the care of an eye doctor may perceive a different situation than their doctor has described.
Unless there is a suitable faulty developed in the audience's mind, the speaker will not be understood. So the teacher/speaker should not get irritated when her student/audience takes long time to understand or perceive reality.
REALITY has no meaning of its own. YOU give it meaning by what you perceive and define it to be. CHANGE your mind and everything changes.
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- تصورArabic
- percebreCatalan, Valencian
- vnímatCzech
- begribeDanish
- wahrnehmenGerman
- αντιλαμβάνομαιGreek
- sentiEsperanto
- entender, percibirSpanish
- درک کردنPersian
- havaita, oivaltaa, hahmottaa, huomata, tajutaFinnish
- percevoirFrench
- समझनाHindi
- felfogHungarian
- perciperInterlingua
- melihatIndonesian
- percepireItalian
- לִתְפּוֹסHebrew
- 知覚, 気付く, 認めるJapanese
- 감지하다Korean
- videoLatin
- mauMāori
- waarnemenDutch
- perceberPortuguese
- pricepe, realiza, înțelegeRomanian
- воспринима́ть, воспринятьRussian
- begripaSwedish
- உணரTamil
- เข้าใจThai
- محسوس کرناUrdu
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