Definition of understands Understands
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What does understands mean?
Part of speech
đŸ”¤- understands, verb, present, 3rd person singular of understand (infinitive).
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| understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" | ||
| get the picture, grok, savvy, grasp, apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" | ||
| sense comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter" | ||
| follow behave in accordance or in agreement with; "Follow a pattern"; "Follow my example" | ||
| catch, get contract; "did you catch a cold?" | ||
| touch comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem" | ||
| understand, interpret, translate, read know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" | ||
| read to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!" | ||
| construe, interpret, see make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" | ||
| make out comprehend; "I cannot make out what this politician is saying" | ||
| figure out, puzzle out, solve, lick, work out, work find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem" | ||
| fathom, bottom, penetrate measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | ||
| understand - 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" | ||
| realize, realise, see | ||
| envision, fancy, image, picture, visualise, visualize, figure, project, see picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President" | ||
| see be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" | ||
| perceive become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest" | ||
| take account, appreciate increase the value of; "The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark" | ||
| understand - make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" | ||
| read, interpret, translate | ||
| understand know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" | ||
| understand - believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" | ||
| infer | ||
| believe accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits" | ||
| understand - be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!" | ||
| sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary đŸ“˜
- understand (v. t.)
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. - understand (v. t.)
To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill. - understand (v. t.)
To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. - understand (v. t.)
To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume. - understand (v. t.)
To stand under; to support. - understand (v. i.)
To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being. - understand (v. i.)
To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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understand
To be aware of the meaning of. -
understand
To get the meaning of something. -
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To believe, based on information. -
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To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary đŸ“•
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understand
un-dėr-stand′, v.t. to comprehend: to have just ideas of: to know thoroughly: to be informed of: to learn: to suppose to mean: to mean without expressing: to imply.—v.i. to have the use of the intellectual faculties: to be informed: to learn.—adj. Understan′dable.—p.adj. Understan′ded (obs.), understood (with of).—n. Understan′ding, the act of comprehending: the faculty or the act of the mind by which it understands or thinks: the power to understand: knowledge: exact comprehension: agreement of minds: harmony.—adj. knowing, skilful.—adv. Understan′dingly.—Understands′, in Scotch Version of Psalms, used for Understandest. [A.S. understandan, to stand under or in the midst of a thing.]
Part of speech
đŸ”¤- understand, verb, present, 1st person singular of understand (infinitive).
- understand, verb (infinitive).
