English > perceive: 2 senses > verb 1, perception| Meaning | To become aware of through the senses. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Example | "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" |
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| Synonym | comprehend |
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| Entailed by | discover | see for the first time |
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| experience, receive, have, get | go through (mental or physical states or experiences) |
| note, take note, observe | observe with care or pay close attention to |
| notice, mark, note | Notice or perceive |
| record, register | Be aware of |
| spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart | detect with the senses |
| Narrower | apperceive | perceive in terms of a past experience |
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| catch, pick up | perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily |
| divine | perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers |
| dream | Experience while sleeping |
| feel, sense | perceive by a physical sensation / sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles |
| find | perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place |
| hallucinate | perceive what is not there |
| hear | perceive (sound) via the auditory sense |
| hurt, ache, suffer | Feel physical pain |
| listen | hear with intention |
| misperceive | perceive incorrectly |
| pick up, receive | register (perceptual input) |
| see | perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight |
| see through | perceive the true nature of |
| smell | inhale the odor of |
| spy, sight | catch sight of |
| taste | perceive by the sense of taste |
| touch | perceive via the tactile sense |
| Spanish | apreciar, comprender, entender, percibir, sentir, ver |
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| Catalan | apreciar, percebre, sentir |
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| Adjectives | perceptible | easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind |
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| perceptive | of or relating to perception |
| Nouns | perceiver | a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses |
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| perception | becoming aware of something via the senses |
