perceive

perceive (someone or something) as (something)

To regard, consider, or think of someone or something as having or exhibiting the characteristics of something. Often used in passive constructions. I know you don't perceive this issue as anything serious, but I'm warning you—it could escalate into a full-blown financial crisis! The thought of being perceived as a loser fills makes me feel worse than actually failing at something.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

perceive someone or something as something

to think of someone or something as something or as displaying certain characteristics. I perceive Randy as sort of hotheaded. We all perceive this problem as solvable.
See also: perceive
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • a walking
  • a walking (something)
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
  • accompany
  • a ghost at the feast
  • a bird in hand
  • a bird in the hand
  • all right
References in periodicals archive
In other words, preservice teachers who have high levels of TPACK would probably find it easier to use technology and would perceive using technology as a helpful teaching tool.
Consumers with high environmental concerns tend to trust a brand if they can perceive green value from the product.
When adolescents perceive their parents in conflict, their sense of belongingness to parents get threatened and they feel less secure in their own homes (Kumar, Stone, Gerard, and Pemberton, 1997).
It may be reasonable to argue that a student may have a positive attitude and eventually adopts technology if he/she perceives that it will not take much effort and also enhance performance.
Growing numbers of customers now purchase tourism products through websites and perceive that image and usefulness directly affect their purchase intentions (Chiang & Jang, 2007).
Night shift nurses perceive less support partly from their friends and family and reduce their motivation to work.
Bradberry (2007) posits that identifying one's career choice depends on one's personality traits and how one perceives a particular job.
People may decide to run the risk because they do not perceive it as too high, if compared to not hoped-for situations.
As reputation consists of mainly emotional perceptions that are related to past experiences, and is an important antecedent of perceived quality, which also includes a set of subjective components we can conclude that also in former socialist countries in Europe customers do not perceive only a rational components of offerings but are also more and more sensitive to emotional aspects of services.
This study also expands the literature on argumentativeness by focusing on how moderate argumentatives perceive serial arguing.
Sanford said the results show that people perceive a threat to their control, power and status in the relationship when they observe an increase in partner hard emotion and they perceive partner neglect when they observe an increase in partner flat emotion or a decrease in partner soft emotion.
Studies have demonstrated that people with ID tend towards an external locus of control (Espie, Gillies, & Montgomery, 1990; Gardner, Warren, & Gardner, 1977; Langdon & Talbot, 2006; Wehmeyer & Palmer, 1997), and may not perceive that they have control over their decisions (Wehmeyer & Metzler, 1995).
Accordingly to that obtained results indicate that respondents perceive different stimulus contrast, that is, its size varies depending on colour and saturation of the background.
In multivariate analyses, women who experienced new multipartnered fertility between surveys were less likely than those who did not to perceive support (odds ratio, 0.7).