English Dictionary: understood | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Understand \Un`der*stand"\ ([ucr]n`d[etil]r*st[acr]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Understood}, and Archaic {Understanded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Understanding}.] [OE. understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is not clear. See {Under}, and {Stand}.] 1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Understood \Un`der*stood"\, imp. & p. p. of {Understand}. |