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Understood   /ˌəndərstˈʊd/   Listen
Understood

adjective
1.
Fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation.
2.
Implied by or inferred from actions or statements.  Synonyms: silent, tacit.  "A tacit agreement" , "The understood provisos of a custody agreement"


Understand

verb
(past & past part. understood, archaic understanded; pres. part. understanding)
1.
Know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.  "I understand what she means"
2.
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"
3.
Make sense of a language.  Synonyms: interpret, read, translate.  "Can you read Greek?"
4.
Believe to be the case.  Synonym: infer.
5.
Be understanding of.  Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize.



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"Understood" Quotes from Famous Books



... nearer, begged that he might be heard and believed. He understood the meaning of these inquiries, for he had been with his mistress at Surrentum. They whom Basil sought were not here; all search would be useless; in proof of this Leo offered the evidence of his wife, who could reveal something of moment which she had learnt only ...
— Veranilda • George Gissing
... to be chosen by the peoples as something intermediate between the excess of consonants in the north and the excess of vowels in the south. In Europe, French was the language of commerce, and also of felony. It will be remembered that Gibby, a London thief, understood Cartouche. ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo
... had, among many original relics, in one of his white galleries—and how he understood the effect and the "value" of whiteness!—two or three reproductions of the finest bronzes of the Naples museum, the work of a small band of brothers whom he had found himself justified in trusting ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James
... legends I already saluted like an old friend, for I had met it the year before in a work of Miss Yonge's. My first perusal was in one of those pirated editions that swarmed at that time out of Brussels, and ran to such a troop of neat and dwarfish volumes. I understood but little of the merits of the book; my strongest memory is of the execution of d'Eymeric and Lyodot—a strange testimony to the dulness of a boy, who could enjoy the rough-and-tumble in the Place de Greve, and forget d'Artagnan's visits to the two financiers. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the Number issued ...
— Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various


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