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Definition: COMPREHENDING |
COMPREHENDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Comprehend |
Date "COMPREHENDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: COMPREHENDING |
| English words defined with "COMPREHENDING": Comprisal ♦ Omnicorporeal ♦ Swedenborgian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COMPREHENDING": Auditory Perceptual Disorders. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "COMPREHENDING": Comprehend. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | These two powers, executive and federative, though they be really distinct in themselves, yet one comprehending the execution of the municipal laws of the society within its self, upon all that are parts of it; the other the management of the security and interest of the public without, with all those that it may receive benefit or damage from, yet they are always almost united. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This explains that odd exclamation of a Parisian (r)gamin , a depth of lamentation which the multitude laugh at without comprehending. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | To understand recovery processes in the brain, some researchers are attempting to use functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to uncover the anatomical organization of the human brain regions involved in comprehending words and sentences. (references) | |
Children with TBI also may have difficulties with peers due to cognitive processing, behavioral problems, or difficulty comprehending social cues. Parents are faced with significant parenting challenges, including coping with changed academic aspirations and family goals. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | But the law of which we speak, comprehending the values of freedom, affirms the equality of all nations, great and small. |
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| "COMPREHENDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COMPREHENDING" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "COMPREHENDING": non-comprehending. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
comprehending reading | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COMPREHENDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 领会 (Comprehend, Comprehended). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | begreifend (apprehensive, apprehensively, conceptive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 網羅 (comprising, covering, encompassing, including). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほうぞう (containing, entertaining, keeping, treasure house, treasury), もうら (comprising, covering, encompassing, including). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이해 (understanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omprehendingcay tuigsinn (discerning, understanding). (various references) förstående (sympathetic, understanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "COMPREHENDING": uncomprehending. (additional references) | |
Words containing "COMPREHENDING": uncomprehendingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "COMPREHENDING" (pronounced kÄ'mpruhe"nding) |
| 9 | -p r u h e" n d i ng | apprehending. |
| 5 | -e" n d i ng | amending, ascending, attending, bending, blending, commending, condescending, contending, defending, depending, descending, ending, expending, extending, fending, impending, intending, lending, mending, misspending, offending, overextending, pending, portending, pretending, recommending, relending, rending, sending, spending, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, unending, vending, wending. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | abounding, astounding, banding, binding, blinding, bonding, bounding, branding, commanding, compounding, confounding, corresponding, defunding, demanding, disbanding, expanding, expounding, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, handing, hounding, landing, longstanding, masterminding, minding, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, outspending, outstanding, overfunding, overspending, pounding, rebounding, refunding, reminding, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sanding, sounding, spellbinding, standing, stranding, surrounding, underfunding, understanding, unwinding, upstanding, winding, withstanding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-h-i-m-n-n-o-p-r" | |
-3 letters: compeering, comprehend, echinoderm, endergonic, proceeding, prominence. | |
-4 letters: coinhered, compering, condemner, decerning, dehorning, deperming, drenching, endocrine, endoergic, endogenic, endorphin, hegemonic, impregned, pedogenic, pondering, preceding, precoding, princedom, reechoing, remending, reopening. | |
-5 letters: cheeping, cheering, chomping, chording, choremen, chromide, chroming, ciphered, cohering, coinhere, compered, congener, creeping, decipher, deponing, domineer, emending, encipher, encoding, encoring, endermic, enriched, ephedrin, erogenic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-g-h-i-m-n-n-o-p-r" | |
+2 letters: uncomprehending. | |
+4 letters: uncomprehendingly. | |
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