Understanding can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| understanding - characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; "an understanding friend" | ||
Verb |
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| understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" | ||
| 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" | ||
| understand - make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" | ||
| understand - believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" | ||
| understand - be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!" | ||
Noun |
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| understanding - the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" | ||
| understanding - the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers" | ||
| understanding - an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding" | ||
| understanding - the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" |
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| 1. | noun | He has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect. | |
| 2. | noun | There was an understanding between management and the workers. | |
| 3. | noun | I knew I could count on his understanding. | |
| 4. | noun | Let me know if this is your understanding, as well. | |
| 5. | noun | I spoke to Edmund to get the scoop on what we are going to be doing on the confirms for Credit Derivatives, and he said that his current understanding is that all of the confirms will be done out of London. | |
| 6. | noun | Despite the best efforts of IT, continuing problems with the AS400 application, a better understanding of the inconsistency between stock reconciliation reports, and concerns over the useability of the outright stock screen enquiry are such that I am currently not confident of delivering sufficient accurate information to AA to satisfy their audit requirements - which at a macro level is the transparent audit trail between stock and forward positions to full accounting values. | |
| 7. | noun | My understanding was that ECS was to provide a means to access CDEC's online profile in order for us to make a decision to avoid running the compressor during CDEC's peak load periods. | |
| 8. | noun | It was my understanding with the EOL Team that all divisions would have the legal incorporated entity as part of the name. | |
| 9. | noun | My suggestion is that Global Counterparty use the same name that the customer has signed on the EnronOnline Password Application -- my understanding is that the EnronOnline team returns inappropriate Applications to the customer until they are correctly completed. | |
| 10. | noun | One of my most cherished dualities is the understanding that we are both autonomous individuals with the power to shape our personal destinies and at the same time we are all one, that there is no separation between you and I, we are all together in this thing called life, we human beings, the birds and the tress, the rocks and the sky, all of it. | |
| 11. | noun | from my understanding, if its heated from the bottom, my snake risks burning its belly if it burrows and rests directly on top of the glass over the heater unless i buy some of that reptile carpet to put under the substrate, but it has better heat distribution. | |
| 12. | noun | In addition, from my understanding one-on-one dates is something that comes much later and not 'straight-away' like us anglo-saxons. | |
| 13. | noun | I understand not wanting to put labels like 5.10 on an indoor course, because yes, it is not the same, but some clear understanding of the difficulty of one course to another is nice when you are an intermediate climber looking to improve. | |
| 14. | noun | We must sow the seeds of mutual understanding. | |
| 15. | noun | Mutual understanding is essential. | |
| 16. | adj. | An understanding friend. | |
| 17. | adj. | Many of us have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of being, an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to, and many of use wouldn't escape if you opened the front door. | |
| 18. | adj. | Both my grandparents passed away 4 months apart and Mike was very understanding. | |
| 19. | verb | The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword." | |
| 20. | verb | The child was incapable of understanding his father's death. | |
| 21. | verb | Understanding this book is beyond my capacity. | |
| 22. | verb | Gloria, don't let him feed you that line about his wife not understanding him. | |
| 23. | verb | Do you have difficulty understanding what women or small children say to you? | |
| 24. | verb | I have difficulty understanding abstract modern art, especially Mondrian. | |
| 25. | verb | At first, I had difficulty understanding people when they spoke too fast. | |
| 26. | verb | They were listening to him, not understanding what he really meant. | |
| 27. | verb | You're considerate, but don't you think you should work a little more at understanding the subtleties of the human mind? | |
| 28. | verb | Understanding parts-of-speech is extremely important for getting the feel of word order. | |
| 29. | verb | The scientific method is the best way we have for understanding the world around us. | |
| 30. | verb | Understanding you is really very hard. | |
| 31. | verb | The result is that English people usually have no problem understanding what foreigners say. | |
| 32. | verb | There is an urgent need for understanding how climate change will affect our lives. | |
| 33. | verb | Researchers are still a long way off from understanding the mechanism involved in Alzheimer's disease. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| He has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect. |
|
| There was an understanding between management and the workers. |
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| I knew I could count on his understanding. |
|
| Let me know if this is your understanding, as well. |
|
| I spoke to Edmund to get the scoop on what we are going to be doing on the confirms for Credit Derivatives, and he said that his current understanding is that all of the confirms will be done out of London. |
|
| Despite the best efforts of IT, continuing problems with the AS400 application, a better understanding of the inconsistency between stock reconciliation reports, and concerns over the useability of the outright stock screen enquiry are such that I am currently not confident of delivering sufficient accurate information to AA to satisfy their audit requirements - which at a macro level is the transparent audit trail between stock and forward positions to full accounting values. |
|
| My understanding was that ECS was to provide a means to access CDEC's online profile in order for us to make a decision to avoid running the compressor during CDEC's peak load periods. |
|
| It was my understanding with the EOL Team that all divisions would have the legal incorporated entity as part of the name. |
|
| My suggestion is that Global Counterparty use the same name that the customer has signed on the EnronOnline Password Application -- my understanding is that the EnronOnline team returns inappropriate Applications to the customer until they are correctly completed. |
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| One of my most cherished dualities is the understanding that we are both autonomous individuals with the power to shape our personal destinies and at the same time we are all one, that there is no separation between you and I, we are all together in this thing called life, we human beings, the birds and the tress, the rocks and the sky, all of it. |
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| from my understanding, if its heated from the bottom, my snake risks burning its belly if it burrows and rests directly on top of the glass over the heater unless i buy some of that reptile carpet to put under the substrate, but it has better heat distribution. |
|
| In addition, from my understanding one-on-one dates is something that comes much later and not 'straight-away' like us anglo-saxons. |
|
| I understand not wanting to put labels like 5.10 on an indoor course, because yes, it is not the same, but some clear understanding of the difficulty of one course to another is nice when you are an intermediate climber looking to improve. |
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| We must sow the seeds of mutual understanding. | |
| Mutual understanding is essential. | |
| adj. | |
| An understanding friend. |
|
| Many of us have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of being, an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to, and many of use wouldn't escape if you opened the front door. |
|
| Both my grandparents passed away 4 months apart and Mike was very understanding. |
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| verb | |
| The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword." | |
| The child was incapable of understanding his father's death. | |
| Understanding this book is beyond my capacity. | |
| Gloria, don't let him feed you that line about his wife not understanding him. | |
| Do you have difficulty understanding what women or small children say to you? | |
| I have difficulty understanding abstract modern art, especially Mondrian. | |
| At first, I had difficulty understanding people when they spoke too fast. | |
| They were listening to him, not understanding what he really meant. | |
| You're considerate, but don't you think you should work a little more at understanding the subtleties of the human mind? | |
| Understanding parts-of-speech is extremely important for getting the feel of word order. | |
| The scientific method is the best way we have for understanding the world around us. | |
| Understanding you is really very hard. | |
| The result is that English people usually have no problem understanding what foreigners say. | |
| There is an urgent need for understanding how climate change will affect our lives. | |
| Researchers are still a long way off from understanding the mechanism involved in Alzheimer's disease. | |