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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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I remember loving these two wildly toxic humans, because while it wasn’t a book I actually understood, I felt it — a sort of, What did this book just do to me? feeling.

From Los Angeles Times

For Rick, the readings were largely to understand if this was the stuff of cinema or not.

From Los Angeles Times

Gray said he was "sorry with the way in which Emily feels police treated her that night", but he said the officers "understood the enormity" of what she had told them.

From BBC

Chevron has a sizable position in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play and recently signed a memorandum of understanding to explore in Libya, which holds shale resources.

From The Wall Street Journal

By doing so, the work offers a simpler and more comprehensive way to understand magnetoresistance across a wide range of spintronic systems.

From Science Daily