PERCEIVE


Meaning of PERCEIVE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pə(r)si:v ]

( perceives, perceiving, perceived)

1.

If you perceive something, you see, notice, or realize it, especially when it is not obvious.

A key task is to get pupils to perceive for themselves the relationship between success and effort...

VERB : V n

2.

If you perceive someone or something as doing or being a particular thing, it is your opinion that they do this thing or that they are that thing.

Stress is widely perceived as contributing to coronary heart disease...

VERB : V n as n / -ing

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