understanding

Significado

1. The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.
2. Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.
3. Opinion, judgement, or outlook.
4. An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
5. An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
6. Sympathy.

Frecuencia

Guionizado como

un‧der‧stand‧ing

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ʌndəˈstandɪŋ/

Etimoloxía

From Middle English understandinge, understondinge, from Old English understanding (“intelligence, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandingu, from Proto-Germanic *understandingō, equivalent to understand + -ing (gerund ending). Cognate with Middle Dutch onderstaninge, Middle Low German understandinge, Middle High German understandunge.

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understand

(of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
(of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
(of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
(of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
To regard as present when not.
To stand underneath, to support.
To comprehend or grasp (some particular matter); to have comprehension (in general);