UNDERSTANDING
\ˌʌndəstˈandɪŋ], \ˌʌndəstˈandɪŋ], \ˌʌ_n_d_ə_s_t_ˈa_n_d_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of UNDERSTANDING
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
By Princeton University
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the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
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The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
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An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
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The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
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Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
By Oddity Software
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Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
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The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
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An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
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The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
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Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
By Noah Webster.
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Intelligent.
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The reasoning faculties; the mind; state of knowing, or power to know; comprehension; an agreement.
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Understandingly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The act of comprehending: the faculty or the act of the mind by which it understands or thinks: the power to understand: knowledge: exact comprehension: agreement of minds: harmony.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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