英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Understanding
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Understand
Understanding
(a.)
Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an
understanding man.
Understanding
(n.)
The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense
of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation;
explanation.
Understanding
(n.)
An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of
differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as,
to come to an understanding with another.
Understanding
(n.)
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.
Understanding
(n.)
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.
Understandingly
(adv.)
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with
full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a
question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.
Understate
(v. t.)
To state or represent less strongly than may be done
truthfully.
Understatement
(n.)
The act of understating, or the condition of being
understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
Understock
(v. t.)
To supply insufficiently with stock.
Understood
(imp. & p. p.)
of Understand
imp. & p. p. of Understand.
Understrapper
(n.)
A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
Understrapping
(a.)
Becoming an understrapper; subservient.
Understrata
(pl. )
of Understratum
Understratum
(n.)
The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or
soil, rests; subsoil.
Understratums
(pl. )
of Understratum
Understroke
(v. t.)
To underline or underscore.
Understudy
(v. t. & i.)
To study, as another actor's part, in order to
be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
Understudy
(n.)
One who studies another's part with a view to assuming
it in an emergency.