Perceive vs Behold - What's the difference?
perceive | behold |
To see, to be aware of, to understand.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=Colin Allen
, title=Do I See What You See?
, volume=100, issue=2, page=168
, magazine=(American Scientist)
To see, or to look at.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
As verbs the difference between perceive and behold
is that perceive is to see, to be aware of, to understand while behold is to see, or to look at.perceive
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
citation, passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}