Definition of Understand

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Understand

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.

To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.

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Understand Quotations

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

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

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne Dyer

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
Barack Obama

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain

Understand Translations

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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