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Definition: Understanding |
UnderstandingAdjective1. Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; "an understanding friend". Noun1. The cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect". 2. The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers". 3. An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding". 4. The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "understanding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Satire | UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. His understanding was so keen That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration's call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile 'em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before. Jorrock Wormley. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Understanding is a psychological state in relation to an object or person whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to be able to deal adequately with that object.For example, I understand the weather if I am able to predict and give an explanation of some of its features.
Or, a psychiatrist understands another person if he knows his anxieties and their causes, and can give him useful advice on how to minimise the anxiety.
I understand a command if I know who gave it, what is expected, and whether the command is legitimate.
Also one can understand a reasoning, an argument, and a language.
See also knowledge, epistemology, and thought.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Understanding."
Synonyms: UnderstandingSynonyms: agreement (n), apprehension (n), discernment (n), intellect (n), reason (n), savvy (n), sympathy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Noun: agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony; concord; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding. |
Assent | Arrive at an understanding, come to an understanding, come to terms, come to an agreement. |
Compact | Make a bargain, strike a bargain; come to terms, come to an understanding; compromise; set at rest; close, close with; conclude, complete, settle; confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite; endorse, indorse; put the seal to; sign, seal; (attest); indent. |
Concord | Rapprochement; reunion; amity; (friendship); alliance, entente cordiale, good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker; intercessor, mediator. |
Keep in good humor, render accordant, put in tune; come to an understanding, meet halfway; keep the peace, remain at peace. | |
Falsehood | Prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose. |
Friendship | Cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale, good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness. |
Imbecility Folly | Noun: want of -intelligence; want of -intellect; shadowness, silliness, foolishness; Adjective: imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence; (unskillfulness). |
Intellect | Noun: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit; ability; (skill); wisdom; Vernunft, Verstand. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Noun: intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe , savvy ; intellect; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness; Adjective: acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination; cunning; refinement; (taste). |
Intelligibility | Understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding. |
Pacification | Settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate differences; set straight; make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites; come to an understanding, come to terms; bridge over, hush up; make it, make matters up; shake hands; mend one's fences. |
Qualification | Adverb: provided, provided that, provided always; if, unless, but, yet; according as; conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of; (theoretically); with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events. |
Skill | Phrase: ars celare artem; artes honorabit; celui qui veut celui-la peut; c'est une grande habilite que de savoir cacher sonhabilite; expertus metuit; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt; "heart to conceive the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute"; if you have lemons, make lemonade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Understanding |
| Etymologies containing "understanding": Noemics. (references) |
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Screenplays | Are you having trouble understanding me, Jerome (Biloxi Blues; writing credit: Neil Simon) For reasons passing understanding, people do not relate guns to gun-related crime (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) I'm a very understanding person, Albert (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) Your understanding of politics is limited to who won the election on 'Sesame Street' (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn) The sun is out, birds are singing, bees are trying to have sex with them -- as is my understanding (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | What I need from you is understanding, (Understanding; performing artist: Xscape) Life is demanding without understanding (The Sign; performing artist: Ace Of Base) Oh so understanding (Never A Time; performing artist: Genesis) To complain there was no need She'd smile in Mama's understanding way ("Coal Miner's Daughter"; performing artist: Loretta Lynn) You see that I am hungry for a life of understanding (Rescue Me; performing artist: Madonna) | |
Clever | Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sexual Understanding (1970) Understanding Your Ideals (1950) Perfect Understanding (1933) The Understanding Heart (1927) A Mutual Understanding (1913) | |
Song Titles | Understanding (performing artist: Xscape) | |
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The Understanding AIDS campaign marked the first time the federal government had attempted to contact virtually every resident, directly by mail, regarding a major public health problem. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Acrylic painting of a spectacled eider flying over an Arctic seascape by Joseph Hautman, 410 Sycamore Circle, Plymouth, MN 55441. Hautman's design was one of 585 entered in the 1991 Federal Duck Stamp Contest. He studied art and physics at the University of Minnesota where he received a degree in physics and later received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. His published work has contributed to the understanding of a broad range of phenomenon -- from the shapes of water droplets and snow flakes to the miscroscopic structures of soap bubbles and cell membranes. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. | |
![]() | Signing of the memorandum of understanding ... Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Signs the Memorandum of Understanding transferring USS Bisbee (PF-46) to the Columbian Government, in his Pentagon office, 16 November 1951. In the center is Columbian Ambassador Don Dipriano Restrepo-Jaramillo. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas G. Mann is at right. Bisbee served in the Columbian Navy as Capitan Tono. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Jennie did not speak : she only regarded her guest with a half-resentful understanding. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Firm understanding. The big base ring for an 8-inch gun, railway carriage, is inspected in an eastern arsenal. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | General Pershing cables "No other organization since the world began has ever done such great constructive work with the efficiency, dispatch and understanding, often under adverse circumstances, than has been done in France by American Red Cross in the l. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Presidential election of the Jiminto by 1,500,000 members! : the first time in the party history : please vote before November 20th : give us your understanding and cooperation for the new challenge of the party!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Courage, experience, understanding : Mario A. Procaccino, Mayor, Abraham D. Beame, Comptroller, Francis X. Smith, Council President. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "_TRANSPORT:47" by Janus R. Sørensen Commentary: "We all live in a world of interconnection... a world of continuous dynamicism... a world of perpetual and neverending information transport. In order for our socitey to thrive, we must communicate. New ideas, concepts, and feelings all transverse the gl" |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Humility is the ladder to divine understanding. |
Count Leo Tolstoy | Conceit is incompatible with understanding. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. |
Lao-Tzu | Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. |
Leonardo Da Vinci | The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. |
Martin Luther | Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. |
Thomas Hobbes | Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. |
William James | To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. |
William Shakespeare | Give it an understanding, but no tongue. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | A child is free by his father's title, by his father's understanding, which is to govern him till he hath it of his own. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It is in these words: "I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich; and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as _____, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the constitution, and laws of the United States." (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Allied and Associated Powers reserve to themselves the right to arrive at an understanding in this connection with Holland, and Germany hereby agrees to accede if required to any such understanding. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | This can only be achieved by reaching now, in 1946, a good understanding on all points with Russia under the general authority of the United Nations Organization and by the maintenance of that good understanding through many peaceful years, by the world instrument, supported by the whole strength of the English-speaking world and all its connections. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Without understanding it himself clearly, and without trying to explain it, that chaste, healthy, firm, direct, hard, candid nature charmed him. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He felt only an ache of soul and body, his whole being, memory, will, understanding, flesh, benumbed and weary |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma watched the preacher as he ate, and her eyes were questioning, probing and understanding. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The King, who had a much better understanding, dismissing his learned men, sent for the farmer, who by good fortune was not yet gone out of town |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A deficit in understanding speech is called aphasia. (references) | |
Sudden confusion, trouble talking, or understanding speech. (references) | ||
Developed a detailed understanding of the targets of rejection. (references) | ||
Business | In terms of negotiating, understanding differences in style is mandatory. (references) | |
Siderar's position in this industry is one of the keys to understanding the market. (references) | ||
They are also very sensitive regarding outsiders’ understanding of local customs and practices. (references) | ||
Children | Dominican Republic | Tours are marketed by foreigners overseas with the understanding that boys and girls can be found as sex partners. (references) |
Russia | The NGO Society for the Defense of Invalids continued to work to broaden public awareness and understanding of problems concerning persons with disabilities by conducting workshops, roundtables with public officials, and training programs for the disabled. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Solomon Islands | There is mutual understanding between the Government and the churches but no formal memorandum of understanding. (references) |
Discrimination | Belize | The country is multiracial and multiethnic, and the Government actively promotes tolerance and cross-cultural understanding. (references) |
Economic History | Egypt | EGPC has already signed a memorandum of understanding with Shell for this project. (references) |
Hong Kong | The two parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding in June 1999 on the arrangement. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tajikistan | Judges at the local, regional, and national level for the most part are poorly trained and lack understanding of the concept of an independent judiciary. (references) |
Switzerland | In 1981 the Swiss Academy for Medical Science decided that forced sterilization is not permissible if a person is incapable of understanding the consequences. (references) | |
Panama | Options such as house arrest have been used in some cases involving the elderly or minors, but require that the defendants have access to and understanding of their legal options. (references) | |
Minorities | Lesotho | There generally was mutual understanding and cooperation between Christians and Muslims. (references) |
Latvia | Although government officials encouraged a broader understanding of and acceptance of newer religions, suspicions remained towards newer nontraditional faiths. (references) | |
Romania | The Romanian Orthodox Church has attacked the "aggressive proselytizing" of Protestant, neo-Protestant, and other religious groups, which the Church repeatedly has described as "sects." There is no law against proselytizing, or clear understanding of what activities consist of proselytizing; however, proselytizing that involves denigrating established churches is perceived as provocative. (references) | |
Political Economy | Moldova | In 1997 the Transnistrian authorities signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government. (references) |
CZECH REPUBLIC | The slow pace of court procedures is often compounded by judges' limited understanding of complex commercial cases. (references) | |
Bulgaria | On February 1, 1999, a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding came into force providing for tax free treatment of U. S. Government assistance. (references) | |
Political Rights | Lesotho | However, in 1998 the King did not take an active role in the opposition campaign, as he did in 1994, and, based on the 1994 Memorandum of Understanding, Prime Minister Mosisili asked SADC to intervene militarily to stabilize the situation. (references) |
Trade | Eritrea | Items may be taxed upon arrival with the understanding that the tax will be reimbursed upon departure from the country with said items. (references) |
Venezuela | The Export-Import Bank and the Venezuelan government signed a Memorandum of Understanding on June 22, 1999 to provide up to USD 1 billion in credit during the next two fiscal years. (references) | |
Travel | Ireland | To assure complete understanding, it is well to define unfamiliar terms. (references) |
Austria | Showing understanding for the Austrian way of doing things will prove rewarding. (references) | |
Honduras | The verbal understanding is therefore sometimes given greater importance than the written contract. (references) | |
Women | Argentina | NGO's working in the area of women's rights stress that women too often do not have a full understanding of their rights. (references) |
Pakistan | Human Rights Watch also reported that women face problems in the collection of evidence; that the doctors tasked to examine rape victims often believe that the victims are lying; that they are trained insufficiently and have inadequate facilities for the collection of forensic evidence pertaining to rape; that they do not testify very effectively in court; and that they tend to focus on the virginity status of the victim, and, due either to an inadequate understanding of the need for prompt medical evaluations or to inadequate resources, often delay the medical examinations for many days or even weeks, making any evidence that they collect of dubious utility. (references) | |
Worker Rights | New Zealand | Discussions with the ILO to confirm this understanding continued at year's end. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Cary Goldstein | I don't fully understand what they're getting at with that, but my understanding is that there are other people that they've interviewed who have information. |
Priscilla Presley | Very strong. He's his own person. Very secure. Very solid. He's very understanding. And it's been good for me. It's the only relationship that I've had that's really, you know, been that solid. |
Rush Limbaugh | Remember, the Founding Fathers had a brilliant understanding of the human spirit to be free in all aspects. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up the affairs of our to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of every candid mind. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | To have shrunk in making it from saying all that was necessary to its correct understanding, and that the truth would justify, for fear of giving offense to others, would have been unworthy of us. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | One proposition is that lasting peace requires genuine understanding and active cooperation among the most powerful nations. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | In our quest of understanding, we beseech God's guidance. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | President-elect Nixon, in the days ahead, is going to need your understanding, just as I did. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | At the time of the bombing halt just a year ago, there was some confusion as to whether there was an understanding on the part of the enemy that if we stopped the bombing of North Vietnam they would stop the shelling of cities in South Vietnam. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Effective diplomacy is also essential in preventing conflict, in building world understanding. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Our good health is due in large part to our ever increasing scientific understanding. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will make the world a little better for your having been here. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Understanding the threats of our time, knowing the designs and deceptions of the Iraqi regime, we have every reason to assume the worst, and we have an urgent duty to prevent the worst from occurring. |
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| "Understanding" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.08% of the time. "Understanding" is used about 6,785 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 84.08% | 5,705 | 1,720 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 15.87% | 1,077 | 6,987 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,785 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "understanding". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Bunah | N/A | Biblical | Understanding |
| Cabbon | N/A | Biblical | As though understanding |
| Dibon-gad | N/A | Biblical | Great understanding |
| Ibneiah | N/A | Biblical | The understanding of the Lord |
| Mebunnai | N/A | Biblical | Understanding |
| Shaalabbim | N/A | Biblical | Understanding |
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Expressions using "understanding": a degree of understanding ♦ a person of understanding ♦ arrive at an understanding ♦ come to a mutual understanding ♦ come to an understanding ♦ come to an understanding with ♦ come to understanding with ♦ fine understanding ♦ good understanding ♦ human understanding ♦ image understanding ♦ in my understanding ♦ lack of understanding ♦ lacking understanding ♦ mutual understanding ♦ National Understanding ♦ on the understanding that ♦ on this understanding ♦ reach understanding with smb. ♦ scene understanding ♦ speech understanding ♦ tacit understanding ♦ they came to an understanding ♦ with the understanding. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "understanding": self-understanding. | |
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| Language | Translations for "understanding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verband (bandage, relation), begrip (concept, conception, idea, notion), begripsvermoë. (various references) | |
Albanian | ujdi (accommodation, arrangement, bargain, composition, concert, concurrence, congruence, mutual agreement, settlement, transaction, tune), pranim (acceptance, acknowledgement, admission, admittance, avowal, confession, reception, recipiency, recognition, recognizance), mirëkuptues, mirëkuptim (entente, sympathy), kuptim (comprehension, conception, construction, drift, hang, import, meaning, perception, point, purport, realization, sense, significance, signification, stress), arsyetim (argumentation, descant, intellection, logic, rationality, rationalization, reasoning, recollection, Rede, speculation). (various references) | |
Arabic | فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understood), مبد عطفا أو تسامحا, وفاق (accord, agreement), تفاهم (amity, harmony), عاطف (conjunctive, sympathetic), ذكاء (brain, brilliance, brilliancy, cleverness, cuteness, intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind, penetration, quickness, sagacity, savvy, shrewdness, smartness, wit), إتفاق (accord, community, compact, composition, concert, concord, concordance, deal, oneness, pact, promise, settlement, term, treaty, unity), إدراك (appreciation, apprehension, cognizance, comprehension, conception, grasp, intelligence, knowledge, maturity, puberty, pubescence, realization, reason, recognition, responsiveness, savvy, science, sense, senses, sensibilities, sensibility, smart). (various references) | |
Basque | ulertzen (understand). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съчувствен (commiserative, compassionate, feeling, responsive, soft, sympathetic), съгласие (accord, accordance, agreement, approval, assent, compliance, concert, concord, concurrence, congruence, consensus, consent, consonance, consort, fiat, grant, harmony, rapport, sympathy, union, unison, unity, yea, yes), схващане (apprehension, comprehension, conception, cramp, grasp, idea, kink, notion, opinion, outlook, perception, prehension, uptake, view), споразумение (accord, agreement, compact, compromise, contract, convention, covenant, settlement, stipulation), разумен (discriminate, equitable, intelligent, judicious, level, long-headed, politic, rational, reasonable, responsible, sane, sensible, thinking, well-judged), разум (discrimination, mind, nous, rationality, wit), разбирателство (amity, rapport, sympathy, unity), разбиране (apprehension, comprehension, conception, feeling, grasp, grip, hold, idea, knowing, opinion, perception, realization, taste, uptake), толерантен (large minded, permissive, tolerant), отнасящ се с разбиране, отзивчив (approachable, co operative, forward, helpful, outgoing, respondent, responsive, soft-hearted, sympathetic, warmhearted). (various references) | |
Chinese | 理解 (comprehension, to comprehend, to understand). (various references) | |
Czech | znalosti (attainment), znalý (adept, cognizant, knowing), shoda (accord, accordance, agreement, community, compliance, concord, conformity, congruence, conjuncture, correspondence, Deuce, harmony, oneness, parity, unanimity, union, unity), rozumný (advisable, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, wise), rozum (intelligence, mind, reason), porozumìní (insight, intellection), pochopení (appreciation, comprehension, insight, sympathy), mající pochopení, inteligence (head, intellect), dorozumìní, chápání (apprehension, comprehension, perception, prehension). (various references) | |
Danish | forhold (relation). (various references) | |
Dutch | verband (bandage, relation), omgang (procession, relation), betrekking (function, job, office, post, relation). (various references) | |
Esperanto | komprenpovo, interrilato (relation). (various references) | |
Farsi | فهمیده , فهم (Brain, Grasp, Head, Intellect, Intelligence, Mind, Savvy, Uptake), موافقت (Accord, Accordance, Acquiescence, Adhesion, Agreement, Approbation, Approval, Assent, Concurrence, Congruity, Consent, Endorsement, Sympathy), مطلع (Hep), ماهر (Adept, Adroit, Cunning, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Expert, Great, Handy, Industrious, Jimmy, Natty, Pert, Proficient, Skillful, Slick, Workmanlike), هوش (Brain, Esprit, Intellect, Intelligence, Sagacity, Sense, Wit, Witting), توافق (Accord, Accordance, Adhesion, Agreement, Analogy, Band, Coincidence, Compromise, Concord, Concurrence, Consistency, Rapport, Settlement), تظر, ادراک (Cognition, Cognizance, Hindsight, Impression, Notion, Perception, Realization, Scent, Uptake), باهوش (Bright, Clever, Ingenious, Intelligent, Keen, Precocious, Sagacious, Shrewd, Smart, Spiffy, Spry, Swish). (various references) | |
Finnish | ymmärtäväinen (sensible), ymmärtämys (sympathy), ymmärrys (intellect, intelligence, reason), välipuhe (agreement, stipulation), järki (logical reasoning, reason, sense). (various references) | |
French | intelligence. (various references) | |
German | verstehen (apprehend, catch, fathom, follow, got it, hear, interpret, know, make out, perceive, read, realize, see, take, to apprehend, to understand, understand, understood), Verstand (brain, head, intellect, intelligence, judgment, meaning, mind, reason, sanities, sanity, savvied, sense, senses, understanded, wit), Verständnis (appreciation, comprehension, conception, grasp, grip, idea, insight, notion, realization, sense, sympathy). (various references) | |
Greek | κατανόηση (comprehension). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הבנה (apprehension, comprehension, insight, realization, savvy, wit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megértés (appreciation, apprehension, catholicity, comprehension), megállapodás (accord, agreement, arrangement, compromise, covenant, pact, settlement, stand in, treaty). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengertian (comprehension, insight, sense), pengartian (meaning), pemahaman (comprehension). (various references) | |
Italian | comprensione (apprehension, comprehension, grasp, Ken, realisation, realization, sympathy, uptake). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 了解 (comprehension, consent, roger on the radio), 把握 (catch, grasp), 悟性 (wisdom), 悟り (Buddhist enlightenment, comprehension). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | りょうかいじこう, えとく (appreciation, comprehension, grasp, perception), とくしん (being convinced of, being satisfied, blasphemy, consenting to, devotion, devoutness, special promotion), はあく (catch, grasp), ものわかり, ものわかりのよい (sensible), ものわかりのいい (sensible), わかり (comprehension), りょう (amount, catch, charge, companion, completion, defy, dormitory, eclipse, endure, excel, fee, finish, fishing, game, good, hostel, hunting, keep out, material, official, portion, pull through, quantity, rate, skill, slight, stave off, surpass, tide over, volume), りょうち (appreciation, dominion, intuition, knowing, preserve, territory), え (bay, depending on, drawing, -fold, grip, handle, inlet, painting, picture, -ply, sketch, type of beefsteak plant), りょうかい (agreement, comprehension, consent, roger, territorial waters), がってん (agreement, assent, comprehension, consent, grasp), りょうしょう (acknowledgement, great general, noting), りかい (comprehension), りかいりょく (comprehensive faculty), ごりょうしょう (acknowledgement), ごせい (emphasizing one's speech, stress, wisdom), のみこみ (apprehension, understand), さとり (Buddhist enlightenment, comprehension), きち (already known, base, correct, dangerous position, extraordinary wisdom, healthy, perception, peril, resources, tact, well-known, wit, your place), なっとく (agreement, assent, comprehension, consent, grasp), がてん (agreement, assent, comprehension, consent, grasp), りょうと (acknowledgement, appreciating, excusing). (various references) | |
Korean | 이해 (Comprehending). (various references) | |
Manx | toiggalys (acuteness, acuteness of mind), toiggaltys (acuity, intellect), toiggaltagh (intellectual, knowing, person that understands), toiggalagh (acute, acute keen-witted, enlightened, judicious), tastaght (sapience), reaghys (arbitration, arrangement, clearing, conciliation, set, settlement, tryst). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erstandingunday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | compreensão (apprehension, candor, candour, comprehension, coverage, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, openness, prehension, realization, sense, uptake, view, wit). (various references) | |
Romanian | inteligenţã (brain, brain-sauce, cleverness, comprehension, cuteness, ingenuity, intellect, intelligence, light, smartness, wit), acord (accede, accession, accord, accordance, agree, agreement, arrangement, assent, cheer, chord, coincidence, compact, compliance, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, consent, consentaneity, consistency, contract, convention, correspondence, covenant, harmony, key, permit, solidarity, treaty, uniformity, union, unison, unity), ager (active, acute, agile, clever, cute, fast, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, quick, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, skilful, skillful, spirited), cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top), care înţelege, comprehensiune (comprehension, prehension), convenţie (agreement, compact, convention, covenant, memorandum), înţelegere (accommodation, accord, agreement, apprehension, arrangement, compact, compliance, composition, comprehension, comprehensiveness, concert, concord, concordat, connivance, convention, covenant, goodwill, grasp, grip, insight, intelligence, knowing, mindfulness, perception, prehension, realization, sympathy, unity), intelect (head, intellect, mentality, mind, nous, spirit), solicitudine (comprehension, solicitude), inteligent (apprehensive, argute, brainy, bright, clever, comprehensive, cute, intelligent, keen, lively, luminous, neat, nimbly, politic, sagacious, sage, sharp, sharp-witted, smart), judecatã (award, bar, decision, inquest, judgement, law, reason, Rede, sentence, trial, verdict, view, wisdom), pãtrundere (acumen, acuteness, comprehensiveness, entrance, in-going, ingress, insight, intelligence, interpenetration, intromission, penetration, permeation, perspicacity, pervasion, vision), perspicace (acute, argute, perspicacious, perspicaciously, ready-witted, sagacious, shrewd), pricepere (ability, capability, cleverness, competence, fitness, gumption, ingenuousness, knack, know how, management, qualification, savvy, sconce, skill), raţiune (ground, intellect, intelligence, lucidity, mind, motive, ratio, rationality, reason, sense, wit), sesizare (intimation, realization), gândire (consideration, deliberation, mentation, mind, reflection, reverie, thinking, thought). (various references) | |
Russian | соглашение (accord, agreement, arrangement, compact, concord, covenant, entente, stipulation, undertaking), чуткий (responsive, sharp), понимать понимание, понимание (apprehension, aprehension, comprehension, conception, digestion, grasp, insight, knowing, perception, reading, realization, savvy), договоренность. (various references) | |
Scottish | tuigsinn (comprehending, discerning), toinisg, tùr (a tower, intention, invent, meaning, sagacity, sense), seadh (it is so, just so, meaning, sense, yes), ciall (darling, meaning, sense). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sporazum (accommodation, accord, agreement, arrangement, come to an agreement, convention, covenant, pact, square deal, treaty), shvatanje (apprehension, comprehension, grasp, insight, uptake), saznavanje, razumevanje (apprehension, cognizance, comprehension, intellection, savvy), pun razumevanja, poimanje (intellection), antanta (entente). (various references) | |
Spanish | relación (association, connection, connexion, connotation, link, link up, list, record, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, touch), inteligencia (abilities, brains, brightness, comprehension, head, intelligence, knowledge, notion, realization, sense, wit), entendimiento (access, comprehension, discernment, grasp, intellect, judgement, judgment, mind, rapport, wit), comprensión (apprehension, charity, comprehension, grasp, judgement, judgment, perception, prehension, realization, savvy, sympathy). (various references) | |
Swedish | förstånd (brains, comprehension, intellect, intelligence, judiciousness, lights, reason, sense), förstående (comprehending, sympathetic). (various references) | |
Turkish | uzlaşma (accommodation, accord, agreement, combine, compromise, give and take, half measure, half-way house, mediatory, rapprochement, reconciliation, reunification, reunion, settlement), uyuşma (accommodation, agreement, alignment, anesthesia, axis, bargain, compromise, concurence, consonance, entente, equalization, give and take, narcosis, numbness, pins and needles, stupefaction), hissetme (feel, feeling, perceiving, sensation, sense), anlaşma (accord, agreement, alliance, arrangement, axis, bargain, compact, composition, concert, concord, conspiracy, contract, covenant, deal, entente, hookup, pact, rapport, settlement), anlama (appreciation, apprehension, comprehension, drift, fathom, grasp, grip, insight, intelligence, knowledge, prehension, realization, sense, uptake), anlayış (apprehension, cognizance, comprehension, discernment, horizon, intelligence, mentality, percipience, sagacity, savvy, sensibility), anlayışlı (comprehensive, considerate, discerning, gentle, heartthrob, indulgent, quick-eyed, receptive, sagacious, wise), şart (circumstance, condition, if, must, necessarily, proviso, reservation, reserve, state, stipulation, string), akıllı (all there, astute, brainy, clever, cute, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sapient, sensible, smart, sparkling, spiritual, well advised, wise), halden anlayan (large-hearted, sensible, sympathetic), zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle), kafalı (headed), kavrama (apperception, apprehension, bite, chuck, cinch, clasp, claw, clutch, cognation, cognizance, comprehension, conception, digestion, engaging, fathom, grasp, grip, gripping, insight, penetration, perception, prehension, seizing, uptake), kavrayış (comprehension, perspicacity, reach, realization, savvy), |