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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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Writing on social media, the US president said Landry understood how "essential Greenland is to our national security" and would advance US interests.

From BBC

“I was just trying to understand why we didn’t get a play to end the game,” Goff said.

From The Wall Street Journal

This can be a tricky thing to understand about yourself, but do you have a sense of what people see as your appeal?

From The Wall Street Journal

Accurately tracking how that radiation moves through curved spacetime and interacts with nearby gas is essential for understanding what astronomers actually observe.

From Science Daily

As Zoe, one of the protagonists, notes early on, her interest in a particular professor’s work stems from his success in “using AI neural networks to understand biological neural networks and the processes of thinking.”

From Los Angeles Times