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Perceive vs Foreread - What's the difference?

perceive | foreread |

As verbs the difference between perceive and foreread

is that perceive is to see, to be aware of, to understand while foreread is to signify beforehand; predict.

As a noun foreread is

a foreword; preface.

perceive

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Verb

  • 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) 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    References

    *

    foreread

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To signify beforehand; predict.
  • *1904 , Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 34 :
  • She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
  • *1907 , Harper's magazine: Volume 114:
  • He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe, while England would remain supine, simply because Neweastle was a fool and Ormskirk would be dead.
  • To read beforehand or ahead of time.
  • *1989 , Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel :
  • I can readily imagine what Pushkin might have said to his trembling paraphrasts; but I also know how pleased and excited I would have been in 1935 had I been able to foreread this 1965 version.
  • (lb) To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
  • *1922 , James Branch Cabell, Gallantry :
  • He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A foreword; preface.