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per·ceive

(pər-sēv′)

tr.v. per·ceived, per·ceiv·ing, per·ceives

a. To become aware of (something) directly through any of the senses, especially sight or hearing: We could perceive three figures in the fog.

b. To cause or allow the mind to become aware of (a stimulus): The ear perceives sounds.

2. To achieve understanding of; apprehend: Einstein perceived that energy and matter are equivalent. See Synonyms at see¹.

3. To regard or consider; deem: an old technology that is still perceived as useful; a politician who is perceived to be a dissembler.

[Middle English perceiven, from Old French perceivre, from Latin percipere : per-, per- + capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]

per·ceiv′a·ble adj.

per·ceiv′a·bly adv.

per·ceiv′er n.

perceived

(pəˈsiːvd)

adj

observed: the perceived threat of nuclear weapons.

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Adj.	1.	perceived - detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues; "the felt presence of an intruder"; "a sensed presence in the room raised goosebumps on her arms"; "a perceived threat" sensed detected - perceived or discerned; "the detected micrometeoritic material"
	2.	perceived - detected by means of the senses; "a perceived difference in temperature" detected - perceived or discerned; "the detected micrometeoritic material"

Translations

perceived

adj danger → empfunden; need → erkannt; failure, success → wahrnehmbar

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It was something which he felt rather than perceived, and he never voiced the feeling without subsequent regret and ample atonement.

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Here their progress was less interrupted; and the instant the guide perceived that the females could command their steeds, he moved on, at a pace between a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the sure- footed and peculiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble.

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The company, tremulous as the leaves of a tree, when all are shaking together, drew nearer, and perceived that there was an unnatural distortion in the fixedness of Colonel Pyncheon's stare; that there was blood on his ruff, and that his hoary beard was saturated with it.

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It was perceived, too, that while Hester never put forward even the humblest title to share in the world's privileges -- further than to breathe the common air and earn daily bread for little Pearl and herself by the faithful labour of her hands -- she was quick to acknowledge her sisterhood with the race of man whenever benefits were to be conferred.

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She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set of her charms.

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I perceived within half an hour that she was so glad--stout, simple, plain, clean, wholesome woman-- as to be positively on her guard against showing it too much.

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Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean.

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Wherefore, you must now have perceived that the front of the Sperm Whale's head is a dead, blind wall, without a single organ or tender prominence of any sort whatsoever.

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Master Freddie perceived that the attendants embarrassed him, and he remarked with a nod to them, "You may go.

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The mention of the thing he thought he perceived was involuntary on Sam's part at first, and his confused attempts to dissuade him he set down to a desperate lying on second thoughts, as being unwilling to implicate Liza.

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They shook their heads, raised their tails, and rushed up and down a hill, and I perceived by their horns, as well as by their activity, their relation to the deer tribe.

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When I came to myself again and began to listen, I perceived that I had lost another chapter, and that Alisande had wandered a long way off with her people.