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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. 

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"Our study profoundly enhances our understanding of the evolution of behavioral coordination in animals."

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To better understand the organism, the researchers isolated the fungus and recorded time-lapse images every ten minutes over a four-day period.

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To better understand how habits operate in everyday life, the research team used a method designed to capture behaviors as they happened.

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The next step involved looking back in time to understand how the gravity hole developed.

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For years, scientists have struggled to understand how the disease managed to spread across such a vast region without that transmission pathway.

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