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understand

[uhn-der-stand] / ˌʌn dərˈstænd /




Usage

What are other ways to say understand? To understand is to be fully aware not only of the meaning of something but also of its implications: I could comprehend all he said, but did not understand that he was joking. To know is to be aware of something as a fact or truth: He knows the basic facts of the subject. I know that he agrees with me. To comprehend is to know something thoroughly and to perceive its relationships to certain other ideas, facts, etc. 

Example Sentences

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena wanted to understand how these chemical defenses move through the forest food web.

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The researchers are now trying to understand how tendon vibration changes the brain's interpretation of effort.

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"Without this, it's impossible to understand the impacts and costs of delayed discharges and whether the initiatives across Scotland are improving lives, services and delivering value for money."

From BBC

He faced court earlier this week - where he is understood to have requested voluntary removal from Australia - with the case adjourned until February.

From BBC

"Studying transport under such perfectly controlled conditions could open new ways to understand how resistance emerges, or disappears, at the quantum level."

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