To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
To stand under; to support.
To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. Henry Ford
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Albert Einstein
understand in Afrikaans is besef, verstaan
understand in Dutch is bevatten, begrijpen, beseffen
understand in French is comprends, comprenons, comprennent, comprenez
understand in German is begreifen, begreife, verstehen, verstehen
understand in Italian is capire, comprendere
understand in Latin is agnosco, video vidi visum, conspicio, scio, teneo
understand in Portuguese is compreenda
understand in Spanish is entender, comprender, idear
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