About The Word Understand
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What's The Definition Of Understand?
[v] know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"
[v] perceive mentally, as of an idea; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" [v] believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" [v] make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [v] be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!" Synonyms | Synonyms for Understand: empathise | empathize | gather | infer | realise | realize | sympathise | sympathize Related Terms | Find terms related to Understand: See Also | appreciate | apprehend | believe | bottom | catch | compass | comprehend | construe | dig | fathom | figure out | follow | get | get the picture | grasp | interpret | lick | make out | penetrate | perceive | puzzle out | read | savvy | see | sense | solve | take account | touch | translate | understand | work | work out Understand In Webster's Dictionary \Un`der*stand"\ ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Understood}, and Archaic {Understanded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Understanding}.] [OE. understanden, AS. understandan,
literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand,
G. verstehen. The development of sense is not clear. See
{Under}, and {Stand}.]
1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the
meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to
comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in
Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the
court understands the advocate or his argument; to
understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a
wink.
Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time, I you
pray, That we may understande what ye say. --Chaucer.
I understand not what you mean by this. --Shak.
Understood not all was but a show. --Milton.
A tongue not understanded of the people. --Bk. of Com.
Prayer.
2. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be
informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has
passed the bill.
3. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to
mean; to interpret; to explain.
The most learned interpreters understood the words
of sin, and not of Abel. --Locke.
4. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for
granted; to assume.
War, then, war, Open or understood, must be
resolved. --Milton.
5. To stand under; to support. [Jocose & R.] --Shak.
{To give one to understand}, to cause one to know.
{To make one's self understood}, to make one's meaning clear.
\Un`der*stand"\, v. i. 1. To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being. Imparadised in you, in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see. --Donne. 2. To be informed; to have or receive knowledge. I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah. --Neh. xiii. 7. |
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