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The meaning of the word "Understand" in English


Understand v. t. : 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.

Understand v. t. : To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.

Understand v. t. : To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.

Understand v. t. : To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.

Understand v. t. : To stand under; to support.

Understand v. i. : To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.

Understand v. i. : To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.

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Taxonomy
model, free encyclopedia, language, anxieties, correlations, abstractions, software, he/she, she knows, how to, inputs and outputs, computer functionality, pattern, computer, cause and effect, effect relationships, engineers, particles.

Defination from the web:
understand the internal components through the use of induction. ... For example, we 'understand' why day and night exist because we have a simple model - the rotation of the earth ... 

synonyms
  (verb) understand
  (verb) realize
  (verb) realise
  (verb) see
  (verb) read
  (verb) interpret
  (verb) translate
  (verb) infer
  (verb) sympathize
  (verb) sympathise
  (verb) empathize
  (verb) empathise
  (verb) believe


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