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Understood   /ˌəndərstˈʊd/   Listen
Understood

adjective
1.
Fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation.
2.
Implied by or inferred from actions or statements.  Synonyms: silent, tacit.  "A tacit agreement" , "The understood provisos of a custody agreement"


Understand

verb
(past & past part. understood, archaic understanded; pres. part. understanding)
1.
Know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.  "I understand what she means"
2.
Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.  Synonyms: realise, realize, see.  "I just can't see your point" , "Does she realize how important this decision is?" , "I don't understand the idea"
3.
Make sense of a language.  Synonyms: interpret, read, translate.  "Can you read Greek?"
4.
Believe to be the case.  Synonym: infer.
5.
Be understanding of.  Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize.



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"Understood" Quotes from Famous Books



... the words, too, and must have understood them, for he stared stonily at the big, good-looking miner. Their greeting had been very brief; evidently they were not ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... hear Lord Lindfield urge her to come. But he was already half-way towards the house. Daisy just raised her eyes, and saw him already distant, and she felt that which she had often heard of before, but passed over as unintelligible. Now she understood ...
— Daisy's Aunt • E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
... Zimmermann note show that the German government understood conditions in Mexico and the United States? 2. Why did the Zimmermann note have so strong an effect upon American public opinion? 3. What were the steps by which the United States was forced into war? 4. ...
— The World War and What was Behind It - The Story of the Map of Europe • Louis P. Benezet
... a work where Mr Bergson speaks with just praise of this shrewd and penetrating sense of what was coming: "What could be bolder or more novel than to come and predict to the physicists that the inert will be explained by the living, to biologists that life will only be understood by thought, to philosophers that generalities are not philosophic?" ("Notice on the Life and Works of M. Felix Ravaisson-Molien", in the Reports of the Academy of Moral and Political ...
— A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson • Edouard le Roy
... before you the ultimate doing good or being useful—which is (for I firmly hold the Jesuit doctrine, if it be rightly understood) to ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn


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