Meanings
- not comparableGenerally recognized to be true.
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore
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In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6 - not comparableAs seen or understood by someone.
Anger is a natural response in humans to perceived or actual threat or provocation.
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In product design, where one deals with real, physical objects, there can be both real and perceived affordances, and the two need not be the same.
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of perceive
The alert officer perceived a dim shape in the distance.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivedetected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues
adjectivedetected by means of the senses
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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