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- English Word Understairs Definition The basement or cellar.
- English Word Understand Definition To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
- English Word Understand Definition To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
- English Word Understand Definition To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
- English Word Understand Definition To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
- English Word Understand Definition To stand under; to support.
- English Word Understand Definition To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
- English Word Understand Definition To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
- English Word Understandable Definition Capable of being understood; intelligible.
- English Word Understanded Definition of Understand
- English Word Understander Definition One who understands, or knows by experience.
- English Word Understanding Definition of Understand
- English Word Understanding Definition Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
- English Word Understanding Definition The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
- English Word Understanding Definition An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
- English Word Understanding Definition 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.
- English Word Understanding Definition 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.
- English Word Understandingly Definition In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.
- English Word Understate Definition To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
- English Word Understatement Definition The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
- English Word Understock Definition To supply insufficiently with stock.
- English Word Understood Definition of Understand
- English Word Understood Definition imp. & p. p. of Understand.
- English Word Understrapper Definition A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
- English Word Understrapping Definition Becoming an understrapper; subservient.
- English Word Understrata Definition of Understratum
- English Word Understratum Definition The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.
- English Word Understratums Definition of Understratum
- English Word Understroke Definition To underline or underscore.
- English Word Understudy Definition To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.