Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ability by which one understands; intelligence.
- noun The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension: synonym: reason.
- noun Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion.
- noun A usually implicit agreement between two or more people or groups.
- noun A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy.
- adjective Characterized by or having good sense or compassion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Knowing; skilful; intelligent; possessed of or exhibiting good sense.
- noun The act of one who understands or comprehends; comprehension; apprehension and appreciation; discernment.
- noun The knowing power, in general; intelligence; wit.
- noun The representative faculty; the power of abstract thought; the logical power.
- noun Intelligence between two or more persons; agreement of minds; harmony; union of sentiment; also, something mutually understood or agreed upon: as, there was an understanding between them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Knowing; intelligent; skillful.
- noun The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
- noun An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon.
- noun The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
- noun Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the
reason .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable
Mental , sometimesemotional process ofcomprehension ,assimilation ofknowledge , which issubjective by its nature. - noun countable
Reason orintelligence , ability tograsp the full meaning of knowledge, ability toinfer . - noun countable
Opinion ,judgement oroutlook . - noun countable An
informal contract , mutualagreement . - noun countable A
reconciliation ofdifferences . - noun uncountable
Sympathy . - noun All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
- adjective Showing
compassion . - verb Present participle of
understand .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
- noun the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- adjective characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy
- noun the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
- noun the cognitive condition of someone who understands
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Nay, for the cause of understanding also, they say the thing understood sendeth forth an intelligible species, that is, an intelligible being seen, which, coming into the understanding, makes us understand.
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If my understanding is accurate, I do not understand how
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In their model, they've made an assumption of what deficits do to the interest rate, and my understanding is they're assuming a relatively significant impact.
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Implicit in this understanding is an acknowledgment that to the victors go the spoils, and that narrow interests of the strong almost always trump justice for the weak – that is, unless the “strong” actor is defeated by someone even stronger.
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In their model, they've made an assumption of what deficits do to the interest rate, and my understanding is they're assuming a relatively significant impact.
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This understanding is the basis of the peace process.
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Here's where my understanding is at right now, please agree, disagree, pick it apart, etc.
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In terms of Reindeer vs. Caribou, my understanding is as follows:
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But my understanding is they will not finalize committee assignments until they know exactly how big their majority is -- which means waiting for the Georgia run off and the Minnesota recount.
oroboros commented on the word understanding
Waking up to what life's really about is not a cure for being dissatisfied. What it gives is an understanding of the nature of your dissatisfaction. Understanding is the closest thing there is in life for a cure for anything.
--Jan Cox
May 22, 2007