percale | (noun) a fine closely woven cotton fabric | - |
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perceivable | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: apprehensible, graspable, intelligible, understandable |
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(adjective) capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing | - |
perceive | (verb) become conscious of | - |
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(verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: comprehend |
perceived | (adjective) detected by means of the senses | - |
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(adjective) detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | Synonyms: sensed |
perceiver | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, percipient |
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percent | (noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percentage |
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percentage | (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, portion, share |
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(noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percent |
percentile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: centile |
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percept | (noun) the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept | Synonyms: perception, perceptual experience |
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perceptibility | (noun) the property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses | - |
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perceptible | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the mind or senses | - |
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(adjective) easily seen or detected | Synonyms: detectable |
perceptibly | (adverb) in a noticeable manner | Synonyms: noticeably, observably |
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perception | (noun) becoming aware of something via the senses | Synonyms: sensing |
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(noun) the process of perceiving | - |
(noun) the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept | Synonyms: percept, perceptual experience |
(noun) a way of conceiving something | - |
(noun) knowledge gained by perceiving | - |
perceptive | (adjective) having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to perception | - |
perceptively | (adverb) in a perceptive manner | - |
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perceptiveness | (noun) the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding | - |
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(noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, taste |
(noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: discernment |
(noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: insight, perceptivity |
perceptivity | (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: insight, perceptiveness |
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perceptual | (adjective) of or relating to the act of perceiving | - |
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perceptuality | (noun) The quality of being related to the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information. | - |
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perceptually | (adverb) with regard to perception | - |
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perch | (noun) spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes | - |
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(noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes | - |
(noun) support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) | - |
(noun) any of numerous fishes of America and Europe | - |
(noun) an elevated place serving as a seat | - |
(noun) a linear measure of 16.5 feet | Synonyms: pole, rod |
(noun) a square rod of land | Synonyms: pole, rod |
(verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
(verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
(verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
perchance | (adverb) through chance | Synonyms: by chance |
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(adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perhaps, possibly |
percher | (noun) a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists | Synonyms: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird |
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(noun) a person situated on a perch | - |
perchlorate | (noun) a salt of perchloric acid | - |
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perchloride | (noun) a chloride containing an unusually high proportion of chlorine | - |
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perchloromethane | (noun) a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined | Synonyms: carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloromethane |
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percipient | (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: clear |
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(noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
percoid | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid fish, percoidean |
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percoidean | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid, percoid fish |
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percolate | (noun) the product of percolation | - |
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(verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, perk, perk up, pick up |
(verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, permeate, sink in |
(verb) cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent | - |
(verb) prepare in a percolator | - |
(verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: leach |
(verb) spread gradually | - |
percolation | (noun) the act of making coffee in a percolator | - |
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(noun) the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification | - |
(noun) the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium | Synonyms: infiltration |
percolator | (noun) a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans | - |
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percuss | (verb) strike or tap firmly | - |
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percussion | (noun) the act of exploding a percussion cap | - |
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(noun) the act of playing a percussion instrument | - |
(noun) tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: pleximetry |
(noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments | Synonyms: percussion section, rhythm section |
percussionist | (noun) a musician who plays percussion instruments | - |
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percussive | (adjective) involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments | - |
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percussor | (noun) (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes | Synonyms: plessor, plexor |
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percutaneous | (adjective) through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches) | Synonyms: transcutaneous, transdermal, transdermic |
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