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What (who) is understand - definition

ABILITY TO THINK ABOUT AND USE CONCEPTS TO DEAL ADEQUATELY WITH AN OBJECT

Understandability; Understandable; Listening Comprehension; Understood; Kapisch; Kapish; Ununderstandable; Understandings; Understand; Listening skill; Deep understanding; Shallow understanding

Understand

·vi To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.

II. Understand ·vt To stand under; to Support.

III. Understand ·vi To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.

IV. Understand ·vt To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to Assume.

V. Understand ·vt To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to Interpret; to Explain.

VI. Understand ·vt To be apprised, or have information, of; to Learn; to be informed of; to Hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.

VII. Understand ·vt 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

(understands, understanding, understood)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

If you understand someone or understand what they are saying, you know what they mean.

Rusty nodded as though she understood the old woman...

I don't understand what you are talking about...

He was speaking poor English, trying to make himself understood.

VERB: no cont, V n, V wh, make pron-refl V-ed

2.

If you understand a language, you know what someone is saying when they are speaking that language.

I couldn't read or understand a word of Yiddish, so I asked him to translate.

VERB: no cont, V n

3.

To understand someone means to know how they feel and why they behave in the way that they do.

It would be nice to have someone who really understood me, a friend...

Trish had not exactly understood his feelings...

She understands why I get tired and grumpy.

VERB: no cont, V n, V n, V wh

4.

You say that you understand something when you know why or how it happens.

They are too young to understand what is going on...

In the effort to understand AIDS, attention is moving from the virus to the immune system.

VERB: no cont, V wh, V n

5.

If you understand that something is the case, you think it is true because you have heard or read that it is. You can say that something is understood to be the case to mean that people generally think it is true.

We understand that she's in the studio recording her second album...

As I understand it, you came round the corner by the cricket field and there was the man in the road...

The management is understood to be very unwilling to agree to this request...

It is understood that the veteran reporter had a heart attack.

VERB: no cont, V that, V it, be V-ed to-inf, it be V-ed that/to-inf

6.

If someone is given to understand that something is the case, it is communicated to them that it is the case, usually without them being told directly.

I am given to understand that he was swearing throughout the game at our fans.

PHRASE: give inflects, usu PHR that

7.

You can use understand in expressions like do you understand? or is that understood? after you have told someone what you want, to make sure that they have understood you and will obey you.

You do not hit my grandchildren, do you understand?...

I don't need it, understand?...

I don't want to hear another word about it. Is that understood, Emma?

CONVENTION

understand

I. v. a.

1.

Apprehend, conceive, perceive, know, penetrate, discern, see, comprehend, have knowledge of, see through, make out.

2.

Be informed, be apprised, learn.

3.

Interpret, take, suppose to mean.

4.

Mean, imply.

II. v. n.

1.

Be an intelligent being, have understanding.

2.

Learn, hear, be apprised, be informed.

Wikipedia

Understanding

Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to use concepts to model that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge that are sufficient to support intelligent behavior.

Understanding is often, though not always, related to learning concepts, and sometimes also the theory or theories associated with those concepts. However, a person may have a good ability to predict the behavior of an object, animal or system—and therefore may, in some sense, understand it—without necessarily being familiar with the concepts or theories associated with that object, animal, or system in their culture. They may have developed their own distinct concepts and theories, which may be equivalent, better or worse than the recognized standard concepts and theories of their culture. Thus, understanding is correlated with the ability to make inferences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding

Examples of use of understand

1. "I understand the damage, I understand the devastation, I understand the destruction, I understand how long it‘s going to take.

2. I understand the devastation, I understand the destruction, I understand how long it‘s going to take.

3. He doesn‘t understand us, and we don‘t understand him.

4. Just as I understand Jewish fears, I understand their despair.

5. These people understand me and I understand them.