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Meaning understand meaning

What does understand mean?
Definitions in simple English

understand Verb

— To hear and then fully know what was said, know enough to do it. To know the meaning of something. He understood what I said to him. She didn't understand. She thought I meant the meeting was today.

understand

— verb know and comprehend the nature or meaning of She did not understand her husband I understand what she means — verb (= realize, realise, see) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally Now I see! I just can't see your point Does she realize how important this decision is? I don't understand the idea — verb (= read) make sense of a language She understands French Can you read Greek? — verb believe to be the case I understand you have no previous experience? — verb be understanding of You don't need to explain--I understand!

Synonyms understand synonyms

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understand English » English

know comprehend realize perceive grasp learn see hear apprehend realise recognize get clear read interpret conceive catch appreciate think make out find out feel believe savvy recognise notice follow figure out fathom discern dig consider compass understanding translate know well digest catch on sympathize sympathise sober up remember infer guess get to know familiar with empathize empathise decipher comprehension

Topics understand topics

What do people use understand to talk about?
Language and thought Think

Understand
Language and thought Think

Know
Language and thought Communication

Interpreting messages
Language and thought Think Understand

Misunderstand
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Speak poorly
Language and thought Think Understand

Mysterious
Language and thought Think Understand

Understandable

Conjugation understand conjugation

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understand · verb

Examples understand examples

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Simple sentences

While I understand what you say, I can't agree with you.
Don't hesitate to ask questions if you don't understand.
This book is written in easy English for beginners to understand.
I don't understand this word.
I can understand your position perfectly.
Don't hesitate to ask questions if you don't understand my explanation.
I don't understand you at all.
I did not understand him at all.
She could not understand why they fought.
I don't understand.
I do not understand.
I think you can't understand that feeling unless you're from the same generation.
I don't understand what you mean.
There are many words that I don't understand.
I'm so dumb. I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
If you don't understand something, it's because you aren't aware of its context.
Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.
I don't understand German.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
If I showed you my house, my neighborhood back then, would you understand where I am from?
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
People should understand that the world is changing.
I understand your position perfectly.
You are old enough to understand this.

Movie subtitles

It's best to understand the specs of your weapon, isn't it?
I understand.
I want you to help me understand what made Western civilization dominate the world for the Iast 500 years.
The only way to answer that question is to understand how the West came to be so powerful in the first place.
Do you understand how difficult this is gonna be?
Oh, no, no, no, no, you don't understand. There's nothing they have to do to become Mormon.
And it's helping us understand and imagine how life might emerge on an alien world.
If we look for life in the universe we have to understand it will come in different shapes and sizes.
We have to understand that life will evolve under conditions which seem horribly hostile, horribly alien.
What people don't understand is that evolution is not a road map.
We are exploring and every discovery we make will help us understand our very existence.
I don't understand why I'm even staying.
I don't understand how they could pull it off.
Yes, I understand.
So, it's a model that is quite easy to understand.
I'm only trying to understand.
Do we understand each other?
I don't understand why you stopped writing me.
You can trust me. Among women, we can understand each other.
Can you understand that?
I don't like it, but I can understand him.
No, you don't understand, I-I can't!
It's very important for you to understand that this is not the way that we conduct ourselves, and of course we will pay for it, so if you just send us the cost, we'll reimburse you for the window.
But I think it's important to understand that they are taking advantage of your good hearts.
Ah, well, I mean it's not okay, but at least now you understand how careful we have to be when we do this kind of work.
Nobody seems to understand that.
Do you understand girls?
We should go en masse and demand to speak to whoever's in charge and make them understand they can't just keep us here.
That scene was added, and I think that scene is so important to understand Allison's mind-set moving forward, because you see her as this, you know, this sort of sweet, naive girl, and then something massive happens. And then it's, you know.
I have all these marks on my body, and my shirt is broken, and I don't remember. I don't understand.
I didn't understand anything because it was in a different language.
I understand that every citizen is worried.
But I'm South Korea's King. Since it isn't an official standpoint from the United States Government and not your own opinion, but instead we have to understand by looking at the situation ourselves.
Because I don't understand these things, in the future, if the official positions in the United States government have a standing, call me again to let me know.
I understand the precautions very well.
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. WELL, THEN MAKE ME UNDERSTAND. OKAY?

News and current affairs

PARIS - As the economic crisis deepens and widens, the world has been searching for historical analogies to help us understand what has been happening.
Given that America benefits mightily from China's purchases of US government securities, it is difficult to understand why the US government and Congress have been complaining so much about the bilateral current-account deficit.
And to understand how something works is also to begin to see ways to modify and even control it.
If the US really wants to undercut terrorism, it must recognize the interconnectedness of extremism, poverty, and environmental degradation, and it will need to understand the struggles for survival that are underway among the poor everywhere.
Do multinational companies, international non-governmental organizations, and multilateral lenders really understand local needs?
In challenging groups like Al Qaeda, they must understand that they are engaged in a war of ideas; winning the hearts - and the lifestyles - of societies is the only way to win that battle.
CAMBRIDGE - Although I appreciate that exchange rates are never easy to explain or understand, I find today's relatively robust value for the euro somewhat mysterious.
He says that he did not understand how the growth of non-standard mortgages had lured borrowers and investors into bearing dangerous risks.
Any robust solution must be reasonably simple to understand and implement.
In evolutionary terms, we can easily understand altruism toward kin and others who can reciprocate our help.
It seems plausible that once our ability to reason and reflect has developed sufficiently enough to enable us to understand that strangers can suffer and enjoy life just as we can, then at least some of us would act altruistically toward strangers, too.
Yet it still does not routinely collect the data that it needs - trades by time and customer - to understand the actions and impact of large traders.
Specifically, policymakers must be open and willing to understand the unusual challenges facing the US economy, react accordingly, and possess sufficiently potent policy instruments.
The art of statecraft is not to choose between war and diplomacy as if they were mutually exclusive alternatives, but to understand how they fit together.
Europe's citizens understand that the relatively small nation-states that make up the EU are no longer able to face these enormous challenges on their own.
People understand better than the government what they need and are acting accordingly.
That is hardly surprising, as previously revered firms revealed that they did not fully understand the very instruments they dealt in or the risks they assumed.
There is in fact no inherent conflict, once we understand that what matters for growth in developing countries is not the size of their trade surpluses, nor even the volume of their exports.
Furthermore, Gul's case, and others like it, should be studied in order to understand the roots of such crimes.
We need to understand better how our economies will evolve in the coming decades, and to redesign our educational systems to produce workers with usable skills.
In the former mother country of Marxism-Leninism, the leaders still don't seem to understand dialectics.
It is almost impossible for any outsider to understand Iran's real internal political dynamics.

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