| Library / English Dictionary |
PERCEIVED
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Detected by means of the senses
Example:
a perceived difference in temperature
Classified under:
Similar:
detected (perceived or discerned)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues
Example:
a perceived threat
Synonyms:
perceived; sensed
Classified under:
Similar:
detected (perceived or discerned)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb perceive
Context examples:
And then suddenly we perceived something which filled us with new hope.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He perceived that enough had been said of Everingham, and that it would be as well to talk of something else, and turned to Mansfield.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then he perceived that they were very little, and he became bolder.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
People's thoughts were enough to change the way their brain perceived sounds.
(Talking to Ourselves And Voices in Our Heads, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“Round the house, lads! Round the house!” cried the captain; and even in the hurly-burly, I perceived a change in his voice.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In such settings we also see people just rinsing their hands with water rather than using soap because this is perceived to increase the amount of water required.
(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)
In all of the experiments, the participants were shown the smiling faces of white or black people, and were asked to rate the level of happiness they perceived in the images.
(White people’s perceptions of the emotions on black people’s faces are less accurate than their perceptions among other white people, University of Granada)
She had never perceived, while the regiment was in Hertfordshire, that Lydia had any partiality for him; but she was convinced that Lydia wanted only encouragement to attach herself to anybody.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
If I do so, for the time, whose fault is that? Mine? No. Not Miss Mowcher's, I perceived.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
After a while he perceived both giants.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
