Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at perceives.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Perceives.

Examples

  • Perceives connections and patterns in the world, including in the plant and animal kingdoms.

    The Answer John Assaraf 2008

  • By Ideas we sometimes understand in general all that which is the immediate Object of the Mind, whatever it Perceives; and in this large Sense it may take in all Thought, all that we are any ways capable of Discerning: So when we have no Idea of a thing, 'tis as much as to say we know nothing of the matter.

    Mary Astell Sowaal, Alice 2008

  • "Chinese images of America are positive and negative simultaneously," says David Shambaugh, who directs the China-policy program at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and wrote a 1991 book, Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972 — 1990, on this theme.

    Misfit America 2006

  • Perceives connections and patterns in the world, including in the plant and animal kingdoms.

    The Answer John Assaraf 2008

  • "Chinese images of America are positive and negative simultaneously," says David Shambaugh, who directs the China-policy program at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and wrote a 1991 book, Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972 — 1990, on this theme.

    Misfit America 2006

  • Perceives something in his path (us) just in time to avert a collision, swerves to one side.

    Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

  • Perceives, in his walks, this same cup on the altar.

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • Perceives that it waits a little while in the door—that it was fittest for its days,

    As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores 1900

  • (Perceives that Miss Lore looks fatigued, and looks at his watch.)

    Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886

  • Perceives that it waits a little while in the door -- that

    Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.