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Understand

verb

(past & past part. understood, archaic understanded; pres. part. understanding)

Know and comprehend the nature or meaning of. "I understand what she means"

Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally. Synonyms: realise, realize, see. "I just can't see your point" , "Does she realize how important this decision is?" , "I don't understand the idea"

Make sense of a language. Synonyms: interpret, read, translate. "Can you read Greek?"

Believe to be the case. Synonym: infer.

Be understanding of. Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize.

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"Understand" Quotes from Famous Books

... to understand that some one has given you orders referring to the Princess? I thought this was simply some idle suspicion of ...

— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward

... combining the necessary letters; and then, if he turns to the roots, he will probably find that many of the words he has created in this way were actually used long ago, and this pratice will enable him more easily to understand in what sense, or on what plane, any particular letter should be taken. I think it probably that in the Sacred Language before mentioned, this could at once have been recognized by a difference in the intonation of the voice. This may have been a survival to some extent of the chanting which was ...

— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

... turn tail at that inn. I really don't know why I didn't tell you at the time, but it was just the opposite. That loud, red-faced brute is one of the cleverest thieves in London, and I once had a drink with him and our mutual fence. I was an Eastender from tongue to toe at the moment, but you will understand that I don't run unnecessary risks of recognition ...

— The Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung

... childhood was passed in an unusually serene and happy home. In Development he tells how, at five years of age, he was made to understand the main facts of the Trojan War by his father's clever use of the cat, the dogs, the pony in the stable, and the page-boy, to impersonate the heroes of that ancient conflict. Latin declensions were taught the child by rhymes ...

— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... very cautious that they do not get caught in a trap). They rode up closer, looking intently at me all the time and talking to each other. I motioned with both hands while I was standing on top of the coach to come and I made them understand that I was friendly. They answered by Indian signs, then gave a big yell,—an Indian whoop—that liked to have froze the blood in the veins of the passengers. They gave this whoop three times, and ...

— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus

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