单词 | perceive |
释义 | perceive (once / 61 pages) v When we perceive something, we become aware of or notice it. Sometimes we perceive things by using our senses of sight, hearing, and smell. Or we can use our mind to perceive things, which means that we are able to recognize or understand them. We can also perceive a person or thing as having certain qualities: Do you perceive yourself as a good student? The Latin root percipere means "to receive, understand," from the prefix per- "thoroughly" plus capere "to seize, take." WORD FAMILYperceive: misperceive, perceivable, perceived, perceiveed, perceiver, perceives, perceiving, perceptible, perception, perceptive, percipient+/imperceptible: imperceptibility, imperceptibly/misperceive: misperceived, misperceives/perceivable: perceivably, unperceivable/perceived: unperceived/perceiver: perceivers/perceiving: unperceiving/perceptibility: perceptibilities/perceptible: imperceptible, perceptibility, perceptibly/perception: perceptions/perceptive: perceptively, perceptiveness, perceptivity, unperceptive/percipient: percipients/unperceivable: unperceivably/unperceiving: unperceivingly/unperceptive: unperceptively, unperceptiveness USAGE EXAMPLESSecondarily, they reflect a mind-set that perceives oral health as an optional milestone to strive for. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) China will react as China always does to perceived – or real – slights. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Several areas of the brain act in collaboration in order to receive, process, prioritise and implement real-time data perceived during driving. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1v to become aware of through the senses I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon Syn|Hypo comprehend feel, sense perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles apperceiveperceive in terms of a past experience pick up, receiveregister (perceptual input) divineperceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers hallucinateperceive what is not there; have illusions misperceiveperceive incorrectly catch, pick upperceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily dreamexperience while sleeping ache, hurt, sufferfeel physical pain smellinhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense touchperceive via the tactile sense seeperceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight sight, spycatch sight of; to perceive with the eyes hearperceive (sound) via the auditory sense listenhear with intention tasteperceive by the sense of taste findperceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place see throughperceive the true nature of hearreceive a communication from someone chiromancedivine by reading someone's palms catch, getsuffer from the receipt of glimpsecatch a glimpse of or see briefly twingefeel a sudden sharp, local pain prick, sting, twingecause a stinging pain sniff, whiffperceive by inhaling through the nose nose, scent, windcatch the scent of; get wind of snuff, snufflesniff or smell inquiringly get a noseful, get a whiffsmell strongly and intensely seesee and understand, have a good eye catch a glimpse, catch sight, get a looksee something for a brief time behold, lay eyes onsee with attention see doublesee things as if they were there twice descry, espy, spot, spycatch sight of detect, discover, find, notice, observediscover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of hear outlisten to every detail and give a full hearing to listen inlisten quietly, without contributing to the conversation advert, attend, give ear, hang, pay heedgive heed (to) catch, overhear, take inhear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers catch, getperceive by hearing hark, harken, hearkenlisten; used mostly in the imperative eavesdrop, listen inlisten without the speaker's knowledge savor, savourtaste appreciatively killbe the source of great pain for 2v become conscious of She finally perceived the futility of her protest Hypo|Hyper sense, smell, smell out become aware of not through the senses but instinctively realise, realize, see, understand perceive (an idea or situation) mentally |
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