English English Dictionary

of Understand

Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.

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.

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.

In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.

To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.

The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.

To supply insufficiently with stock.

of Understand

imp. & p. p. of Understand.

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.

Becoming an understrapper; subservient.

of Understratum

The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.

of Understratum

To underline or underscore.

To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.

One who studies another's part with a view to assuming it in an emergency.