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

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Understanding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
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.
Understate (v. t.)
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.
Understock (v. t.)
To supply insufficiently with stock.
Understood (imp. & p. p.)
of Understand
imp. & p. p. of Understand.
A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
Becoming an understrapper; subservient.
Understrata (pl. )
of Understratum
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.