Word Finder - understood

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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.

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I'm sorry. I don't understand.

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

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I understand that you have a package for me?

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

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Having been comprehended.

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Indicates comprehension on the part of the speaker.

The girl understood and began to clear them.

But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name.

He didn't know if he understood what he was doing.

He stood at the back, and, though he had heard hardly anything, understood everything in his own way.

His sense of humor wasn't well understood by many.

They spread their wings and opened their mouths to show that they understood his words.

I wasn't sure I understood what he was asking and said so.

She'd stayed after she turned eighteen, because he was the only one who understood her strange gift.

By the end of their conversation, he understood why she laughed, too.

It was something her parents never understood... which was probably why they moved to Fayetteville.

That was understood from the beginning.

I understood why he needed to defang Darkyn.

Martha Washington understood my signs, and I seldom had any difficulty in making her do just as I wished.

The only word she understood was Bordeaux.

Suddenly, he understood why the Watcher couldn't find her.

Much of the work carried on by these organisms is not clearly understood; there are, however, certain processes which have been extensively investigated and to these it is necessary to refer.

They could not see the speeding horse, but they heard the clatter of its hoofs far down the road, and they understood the cry, "Up! up! and defend yourselves!"

Jule understood the importance of her appearance, just as he knew all bets were off once she was revealed.

He understood it was in their best interest to protect humanity.

And read I did, whether I understood one word in ten or two words on a page.

Now human, she understood what she had done.

As soon as historians of different nationalities and tendencies begin to describe the same event, the replies they give immediately lose all meaning, for this force is understood by them all not only differently but often in quite contradictory ways.

They said that a gentleman farmer, who was behind the scenes, wanted to double his money, which, as I understood, amounted to half a million already; but in order to cover each one of his dollars with another, he took off the only coat, ay, the skin itself, of Walden Pond in the midst of a hard winter.

It was not, indeed, simply a reactionary or undemocratic measure; it was, as The Times correspondent pointed out, " a measure sui generis, designed to defeat the objects of the universal suffrage movement that compelled the Coalition to take office in April 1906, and framed in accordance with Magyar needs as understood by one of the foremost Magyar noblemen."

Its deep underlying causes can only be understood in the light of the whole of Hungarian history.

He also made If we remember that by " blood " Aristotle understood " red blood," and that he did not know of the existence of colourless blood, his primary division is not a bad one.

It must be understood that the above argument distinctly assumes that the different parts of the object are self-luminous, or at least that the light proceeding from the various points is without phase relations.

The Istitutioni and Dimostrationi Armoniche deal, like most other theoretical works of the period, with the whole science of music as it was understood in the 16th century.

Fletcher was one of the few parish clergy who understood Wesley and his work, yet he never wrote or said anything inconsistent with his own Anglican position.

This does not necessarily prove that " the technical terms of the Temple music had gone out of use, presumably because they were already become unintelligible, as they were when the Septuagint version was made "; for it does not follow that technical musical terms which had originated in the Temple at Jerusalem and were intelligible in Palestine would have been understood in Egypt.

It is, however, probable that the title soon came to be understood of David's authorship, with the result that further notes were added indicating the situation in David's life to which the psalms appeared to be appropriate.

Now that the ascription " to David " was understood of David's authorship before the time of the LXX.

Both include psalms which are most naturally understood as referring to the persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes and to the Maccabaean victories, and cannot therefore be separated by a long interval of time.

In Egypt by the translators of the Septuagint these terms were not understood.

The South African Primary System includes a complex of rocks as yet little understood.

It must, however, be acknowledged that these relationships are very imperfectly understood.

Their distribution, other than in the south-eastern districts, is imperfectly understood.

The decision was in favour of Waterboer, who had, on the 25th of August 1870, before the appointment of the arbitration court, offered his territory to Great Britain, and it was understood by all the parties interested that that offer would be accepted.

The history of the Transvaal is more complete and better understood to-day than it was in 1877, and no one who acquaints himself with the facts will deny that Shepstone acted with care and moderation.

In Johannes 1 Jameson, speaking at Durban on the 9th of August 1910, declared that the raid was not racial in the sense usually understood, but an effort towards federation.

What is understood by a" tone " in this language is distinguished in reality, not by the number of sonorous vibrations which belong to it, but rather by a use of the vocal apparatus special to each.

The two systems of folds meet about Barquisimeto, where the structure becomes very complex and is not thoroughly understood.

Army orders were issued at 5 a.m., but still the urgency of the situation was so little understood that had they been verbally adhered to the force of the II.

By mucoid is understood a soft gelatinous substance containing mucin, or pseudomucin, which is normally secreted by the epithelial cells of both the mucous membranes and glands.

The significance of glycogen in large amounts, or of its absence from the tissues in pathological conditions, is not clearly understood.

Galen was as devoted to anatomical and, so far as then understood, physiological research as to practical medicine.

Van Helmont (1578-1644) was a man of noble family in Brussels, who, after mastering all other branches of learning as then understood, devoted himself with enthusiasm to medicine and chemistry.

In particular the fluctuations of the pulse in fevers and inflammations were better understood, and accurately registered; and we can scarcely realize now that before Harvey the time of the pulse seems not to have been counted by the watch.

The part of the pancreas in digestion also is better understood.

The conditions of diet and digestion in children are now far better understood, and many of their maladies, formerly regarded as organic or incomprehensible, are cured or prevented by dietetic rules.