Word Finder - understand

definition

To grasp a concept fully and thoroughly, especially (of words, statements, art, etc.) to be aware of the meaning of and (of people) to be aware of the intent of.

example

I'm sorry. I don't understand.

definition

To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.

example

I understand that you have a package for me?

definition

(obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.

And the whole thing has been unnatural because that cat and I are both able to talk your language, and to understand the words you say.

We all understand intuitively there is plenty of food in the world.

Now I understand why you were crying.

I can't even understand it.

To understand this problem, consider our relationship with knowledge over the centuries.

We cannot understand it nor the reason of it.

I don't understand how we could have missed him.

If he lived to be a hundred he'd never understand women.

If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.

My mother, moreover, succeeded in making me understand a good deal.

Alex was romantic enough to understand the sentimental significance of the home she had inherited.

But you don't need those numbers; I understand you've done your homework searching public records.

I began to read the Bible long before I could understand it.

Oh, I can understand why you would want to deceive people, I just don't understand how you can involve your family in such a thing – especially Tammy!

That wasn't the point she was trying to make, but maybe a man would never understand what she was talking about.

My dog friends seem to understand my limitations, and always keep close beside me when I am alone.

As if that were important, and there were not enough to understand you without them.

I can't understand why he wants to go to the war, replied Pierre, addressing the princess with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their intercourse with young women.

No; just trying to understand a few things.

If it were a war for freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is not right.

I can understand you not wanting to invest the money for a car, but what's wrong with accepting a ride now and then?

I understand you have a big ranch west of here.

When new technology comes out, we generally understand it in terms of what it displaces.

We have a natural desire to make beautiful things and a bone-deep need to understand the world we live in and our place in it.

In the electrical building we examined the telephones, autophones, phonographs, and other inventions, and he made me understand how it is possible to send a message on wires that mock space and outrun time, and, like Prometheus, to draw fire from the sky.

Perhaps I don't understand things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war.

I understand you have good people on your payroll.

All this was so terrible and unreal that he could not understand it at all, and so had good reason to be afraid.

When we were fortunate enough to find a nest I never allowed her to carry the eggs home, making her understand by emphatic signs that she might fall and break them.

Her words puzzled me very much because I did not then understand anything unless I touched it.

I do not understand quite what that means.

She did not understand who was to go or where to.

I don't understand peace, Taran!

Once, when a question puzzled her very much, I suggested that we take a walk and then perhaps she would understand it.

She could understand nothing, think of nothing and feel nothing, except passionate love for her father, love such as she thought she had never felt till that moment.

He must understand what Alex had been through.

No, I don't understand.

I never did understand why Dad married her.

She didn't fully understand what was going on between her father and these people.

I wanted to explain things to you in a way you'd be able to understand.

By doing this, we will come to understand those conditions better and perhaps prevent them.

Princess Mary did not understand what he wanted of her or why he was asking to be discharged.

So you understand the whole position of our troops?

Not being a military man I can't say I have understood it fully, but I understand the general position.

I don't want you to give that number to anyone unless it's an emergency, you understand?

There is one thing I still don't understand – it's out of character.

I could understand why he would be chasing her, but if I'd have known she'd go for a guy older than me...

It's just that... well, she doesn't understand him, she stammered.

They all didn't understand that she couldn't simply run out and get a job like she had in Tulsa.

Why Pete hired you instead of a man, I'll never understand.