different between perceive vs signalize
perceive
English
Alternative forms
- perceave (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English perceiven, borrowed from Old French percevoir, perceveir, from Latin percipi?, past participle perceptus (“take hold of, obtain, receive, observe”), from per (“by, through”) + capi? (“to take”); see capable. Compare conceive, deceive, receive.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??si?v/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??siv/
- Rhymes: -i?v
- Hyphenation: per?ceive
Verb
perceive (third-person singular simple present perceives, present participle perceiving, simple past and past participle perceived)
- (transitive) To become aware of, through the physical senses or by thinking; to see; to understand.
Synonyms
- ken
Related terms
- perception
- percept
Translations
References
- perceive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
perceive From the web:
- what perceive means
- what perceives the messages taken in by the eye
- what perceives color
- what perceived
- what is meant by perceive
signalize
English
Etymology
From signal +? -ize.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s??n?la?z/
Verb
signalize (third-person singular simple present signalizes, present participle signalizing, simple past and past participle signalized)
- (transitive, now rare) To distinguish, to make noteworthy. [from 17th c.]
- 1789, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin 1990, p. 121:
- [T]he reign of the Tudors was often signalized by the valour of our soldiers and sailors […] .
- 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
- It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.
- 1789, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin 1990, p. 121:
- (transitive, now rare) To display or make known (a quality, attribute etc.); to call attention to. [from 17th c.]
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 68:
- He likewise pretended to ridicule the use of fire-arms, which confounded all the distinctions of skill and address, and deprived a combatant of the opportunity of signalizing his personal prowess.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 68:
- (transitive, now rare) To point out; to take special note of. [from 17th c.]
- 1956, Winston Churchill, History of the English-Speaking Peoples, I.5:
- This expression rex Anglorum is rightly signalised by historians as a milestone in our history.
- 1956, Winston Churchill, History of the English-Speaking Peoples, I.5:
- (transitive, chiefly nautical) To communicate with by means of a signal. [from 19th c.]
- a ship signalizes its consort
- (transitive) To indicate; to be a sign of. [from 19th c.]
- 1957, Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
- And yet... looking here at this bottle which by its number signalized the day when Colonel Freeleigh had stumbled and fallen six feet into the earth, Douglas could not find so much as a gram of dark sediment […]
- 1957, Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To furnish (a traffic intersection) with a traffic signal. [from 20th c.]
Derived terms
- signalization
signalize From the web:
- what is signalized intersection
- what does signalized intersections mean
- what does signalized mean
- what does signalized
- signalize meaning
- what is a signalized crosswalk
- types of signalized intersections
- signalized intersection definition
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