{
    "term": "perceive",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "perceive",
            "heSheIt": "perceives"
        },
        "pastSimple": "perceived",
        "pastParticiple": "perceived",
        "ingForm": "perceiving"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to understand or think of somebody/something in a particular way",
            "sensetop": "perceive somebody/something/yourself (as something)perceive somebody/something to be/have something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This discovery was perceived as a major breakthrough.",
                    "contextForm": "perceive somebody/something/yourself (as something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I do not perceive myself as an expert."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A science degree and artistic interests are often perceived as incompatible."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were widely perceived to have been unlucky.",
                    "contextForm": "perceive somebody/something to be/have something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is widely perceived as a women's health problem, but it does also affect men."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The General's words were perceived as a threat by countries in the region."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The remedy for the problem was only dimly perceived by scientists until recently."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Risks are perceived differently by different people."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "see",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["clearly", "distinctly", "dimly"],
                "verb + perceive": ["be able to", "can", "be unable to"],
                "preposition": ["as"],
                "phrases": [
                    "commonly perceived",
                    "generally perceived",
                    "typically perceived"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to notice or become aware of something",
            "sensetop": "perceive somethingperceive that…perceive somebody/something to be/have something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I perceived a change in his behaviour.",
                    "contextForm": "perceive something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She perceived that all was not well.",
                    "contextForm": "perceive that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The patient was perceived to have difficulty in breathing.",
                    "contextForm": "perceive somebody/something to be/have something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the world of directly perceived objects"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She perceived that all was not well within the organization."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The industrial bias of canal building can be readily perceived by looking at Figure 7.3."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["clearly", "distinctly", "dimly"],
                "verb + perceive": ["be able to", "can", "be unable to"],
                "preposition": ["as"],
                "phrases": [
                    "commonly perceived",
                    "generally perceived",
                    "typically perceived"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəˈsiːv/",
                "audio": "pe/perceive/perceive__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəˈsiːvz/",
                "audio": "pe/perceive/perceives__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəˈsiːvd/",
                "audio": "pe/perceive/perceived__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəˈsiːvɪŋ/",
                "audio": "pe/perceive/perceiving__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pərˈsiːv/",
                "audio": "pe/perceive/perceive__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pərˈsiːvz/",
                "audio": "pe/perceive/perceives__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pərˈsiːvd/",
                "audio": "pe/perceive/perceived__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pərˈsiːvɪŋ/",
                "audio": "pe/perceive/perceiving__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from a variant of Old French perçoivre, from Latin percipere ‘seize, understand’, from per- ‘entirely’ + capere ‘take’."
}