The word understanding means

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to use concepts to model that object.
Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge that are sufficient to support intelligent behavior.[1]

Understanding is often, though not always, related to learning concepts, and sometimes also the theory or theories associated with those concepts. However, a person may have a good ability to predict the behavior of an object, animal or system—and therefore may, in some sense, understand it—without necessarily being familiar with the concepts or theories associated with that object, animal, or system in their culture. They may have developed their own distinct concepts and theories, which may be equivalent, better or worse than the recognized standard concepts and theories of their culture. Thus, understanding is correlated with the ability to make inferences.

Definition[edit]

Understanding and knowledge are both words without unified definitions [2][3] so Ludwig Wittgenstein looked past a definition of knowledge or understanding and looked at how the words were used in natural language, identifying relevant features in context.[4] It has been suggested that knowledge alone has little value whereas knowing something in context is understanding,[5] which has much higher relative value but it has also been suggested that a state short of knowledge can be termed understanding.[6][7]

Someone’s understanding can come from perceived causes [8] or non causal sources,[9] suggesting knowledge being a pillar of where understanding comes from.[10] We can have understanding while lacking corresponding knowledge and have knowledge while lacking the corresponding understanding.[11] Even with knowledge, relevant distinctions or correct conclusion about similar cases may not be made [12][13] suggesting more information about the context would be required, which eludes to different degrees of understanding depending on the context.[10] To understand something implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge that are sufficient to support intelligent behavior.[14]

Understanding could therefore be less demanding than knowledge, because it seems that someone can have understanding of a subject even though they might have been mistaken about that subject. But it is more demanding in that it requires that the internal connections among ones’ beliefs actually be «seen» or «grasped» by the person doing the understanding when found at a deeper level.[10]

Explanatory realism and the propositional model suggests understanding comes from causal propositions [15] but, it has been argued that knowing how the cause might bring an effect is understanding.[16] As understanding is not directed towards a discrete proposition, but involves grasping relations of parts to other parts and perhaps the relations of part to wholes.[17] The relationships grasped helps understanding, but the relationships aren’t always causal.[18] So understanding could therefore be expressed by knowledge of dependencies.[16]

Examples[edit]

  1. One understands the weather if one is able to predict (e.g. if it is very cloudy, it may rain) and/or give an explanation of some of its features, etc.
  2. A psychiatrist understands another person’s anxieties if he/she knows that person’s anxieties, their causes, and can give useful advice on how to cope with the anxiety.
  3. One understands a piece of reasoning or an argument if one can consciously reproduce the information content conveyed by the message.
  4. One understands a language to the extent that one can reproduce the information content conveyed by a broad range of spoken utterances or written messages in that language.

Shallow and deep[edit]

Someone who has a more sophisticated understanding, more predictively accurate understanding, and/or an understanding that allows them to make explanations that others commonly judge to be better, of something, is said to understand that thing «deeply». Conversely, someone who has a more limited understanding of a thing is said to have a «shallow» understanding. However, the depth of understanding required to usefully participate in an occupation or activity may vary greatly.

For example, consider multiplication of integers. Starting from the most shallow level of understanding, we have (at least) the following possibilities:

  1. A small child may not understand what multiplication is, but may understand that it is a type of mathematics that they will learn when they are older at school. This is «understanding of context»; being able to put an as-yet not-understood concept into some kind of context. Even understanding that a concept is not part of one’s current knowledge is, in itself, a type of understanding (see the Dunning–Kruger effect, which is about people who do not have a good understanding of what they do not know).
  2. A slightly older child may understand that multiplication of two integers can be done, at least when the numbers are between 1 and 12, by looking up the two numbers in a times table. They may also be able to memorise and recall the relevant times table in order to answer a multiplication question such as «2 times 4 is what?». This is a simple form of operational understanding; understanding a question well enough to be able to do the operations necessary to be able to find an answer.
  3. A yet older child may understand that multiplication of larger numbers can be done using a different method, such as long multiplication, or using a calculator. This is a more advanced form of operational understanding because it supports answering a wider range of questions of the same type.
  4. A teenager may understand that multiplication is repeated addition, but not understand the broader implications of this. For example, when their teacher refers to multiplying 6 by 3 as «adding up 3 sixes», they may understand that the teacher is talking about two entirely equivalent things. However, they might not understand how to apply this knowledge to implement multiplication as an algorithm on a computer using only addition and looping as basic constructs. This level of understanding is «understanding a definition» (or «understanding the definition» when a concept only has one definition).
  5. A teenager may also understand the mathematical idea of abstracting over individual whole numbers as variables, and how to efficiently (i.e. not via trial-and-error) solve algebraic equations involving multiplication by such variables, such as {displaystyle 2x=6}. This is «relational understanding»; understanding how multiplication relates to division.
  6. An undergraduate studying mathematics may come to learn that «the integers equipped with multiplication» is merely one example of a range of mathematical structures called monoids, and that theorems about monoids apply equally well to multiplication and other types of monoids.

For the purpose of operating a cash register at McDonald’s, a person does not need a very deep understanding of the multiplication involved in calculating the total price of two Big Macs. However, for the purpose of contributing to number theory research, a person would need to have a relatively deep understanding of multiplication — along with other relevant arithmetical concepts such as division and prime numbers.

Assessment[edit]

It is possible for a person, or a piece of «intelligent» software, that in reality only has a shallow understanding of a topic, to appear to have a deeper understanding than they actually do, when the right questions are asked of it. The most obvious way this can happen is by memorization of correct answers to known questions, but there are other, more subtle ways that a person or computer can (intentionally or otherwise) deceive somebody about their level of understanding, too. This is particularly a risk with artificial intelligence, in which the ability of a piece of artificial intelligence software to very quickly try out millions of possibilities (attempted solutions, theories, etc.) could create a misleading impression of the real depth of its understanding. Supposed AI software could in fact come up with impressive answers to questions that were difficult for unaided humans to answer, without really understanding the concepts at all, simply by dumbly applying rules very quickly. (However, see the Chinese room argument for a controversial philosophical extension of this argument.)

Examinations are designed to assess students’ understanding (and sometimes also other things such as knowledge and writing abilities) without falling prey to these risks. They do this partly by asking multiple different questions about a topic to reduce the risk of measurement error, and partly by forbidding access to reference works and the outside world to reduce the risk of someone else’s understanding being passed off as one’s own. Because of the faster and more accurate computation and memorization abilities of computers, such tests would arguably often have to be modified if they were to be used to accurately assess the understanding of an artificial intelligence.

Conversely, it is even easier for a person or artificial intelligence to fake a shallower level of understanding than they actually have; they simply need to respond with the same kind of answers that someone with a more limited understanding, or no understanding, would respond with — such as «I don’t know», or obviously wrong answers. This is relevant for judges in Turing tests; it is unlikely to be effective to simply ask the respondents to mentally calculate the answer to a very difficult arithmetical question, because the computer is likely to simply dumb itself down and pretend not to know the answer.

As a model[edit]

Gregory Chaitin, a noted computer scientist, propounds a view that comprehension is a kind of data compression.[19] In his essay «The Limits of Reason», he argues that understanding something means being able to figure out a simple set of rules that explains it. For example, we understand why day and night exist because we have a simple model—the rotation of the earth—that explains a tremendous amount of data—changes in brightness, temperature, and atmospheric composition of the earth. We have compressed a large amount of information by using a simple model that predicts it. Similarly, we understand the number 0.33333… by thinking of it as one-third. The first way of representing the number requires five concepts («0», «decimal point», «3», «infinity», «infinity of 3»); but the second way can produce all the data of the first representation, but uses only three concepts («1», «division», «3»). Chaitin argues that comprehension is this ability to compress data. This perspective on comprehension forms the foundation of some models of intelligent agents, as in Nello Cristianini’s book «The shortcut», where it is used to explain that machines can understand the world in fundamentally non-human ways.[20]

Religious perspectives[edit]

Cognition helps us gain knowledge which can affect our level of understanding or ‘right view’ as expressed in buddhism. Understanding also is seen in the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit helping an individual with their insight into God’s providence.

See also[edit]

  • Active listening
  • Awareness
  • Binah (Kabbalah)
  • Chinese room
  • Communication
  • Concept
  • Epistemology
  • Hermeneutic circle
  • Informational listening
  • Ishin-denshin
  • Lie-to-children
  • List of language disorders
  • Meaning (linguistics)
  • Natural language understanding
  • Mental model
  • Nous
  • Perception
  • Thought

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bereiter, Carl. «Education and mind in the Knowledge Age». Archived from the original on 2006-02-25.
  2. ^ Zagzebski, Linda (2017), «What is Knowledge?», The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 92–116, doi:10.1002/9781405164863.ch3, ISBN 978-1-4051-6486-3, S2CID 158886670, retrieved 2021-11-28
  3. ^ Târziu, Gabriel (2021-04-01). «How Do We Obtain Understanding with the Help of Explanations?». Axiomathes. 31 (2): 173–197. doi:10.1007/s10516-020-09488-6. ISSN 1572-8390. S2CID 218947045.
  4. ^ Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, remark 42
  5. ^ Pritchard, Duncan (2008-08-12). «Knowing the Answer, Understanding and Epistemic Value». Grazer Philosophische Studien. 77 (1): 325–339. doi:10.1163/18756735-90000852. hdl:20.500.11820/522fbeba-15b2-46d0-8019-4647e795642c. ISSN 1875-6735.
  6. ^ Kvanvig, Jonathan L. (2003-08-21). The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-44228-2.
  7. ^ Elgin, Catherine Z. (2017-09-29). True Enough. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03653-5.
  8. ^ Lipton, Peter (2003-10-04). Inference to the Best Explanation. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-54827-9.
  9. ^ Kitcher, Philip (1985-11-01). «Two Approaches to Explanation». The Journal of Philosophy. 82 (11): 632–639. doi:10.2307/2026419. JSTOR 2026419.
  10. ^ a b c Grimm, Stephen R. (2014), Fairweather, Abrol (ed.), «Understanding as Knowledge of Causes», Virtue Epistemology Naturalized: Bridges Between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Synthese Library, Cham: Springer International Publishing, vol. 366, pp. 329–345, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04672-3_19, ISBN 978-3-319-04672-3
  11. ^ Pritchard, Duncan (2009). «Knowledge, Understanding and Epistemic Value». Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements. 64: 19–43. doi:10.1017/S1358246109000046. hdl:20.500.11820/0ef91ebb-b9f0-44e9-88d6-08afe5e96cc0. ISSN 1755-3555. S2CID 170647127.
  12. ^ Hills, Alison (2009-10-01). «Moral Testimony and Moral Epistemology». Ethics. 120 (1): 94–127. doi:10.1086/648610. ISSN 0014-1704. S2CID 144361023.
  13. ^ Hills, Alison (2010-04-29). The Beloved Self: Morality and the Challenge from Egoism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921330-6.
  14. ^ Bereiter, Carl (2005-04-11). Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-64479-6.
  15. ^ Kim, Jaegwon (1994). «Explanatory Knowledge and Metaphysical Dependence». Philosophical Issues. 5: 51–69. doi:10.2307/1522873. ISSN 1533-6077. JSTOR 1522873.
  16. ^ a b Grimm, Stephen R. (2014), Fairweather, Abrol (ed.), «Understanding as Knowledge of Causes», Virtue Epistemology Naturalized: Bridges Between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Synthese Library, Cham: Springer International Publishing, vol. 366, pp. 329–345, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04672-3_19, ISBN 978-3-319-04672-3
  17. ^ Zagzebski, Linda (2008-07-08). On Epistemology. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-0-534-25234-2.
  18. ^ Ruben, David-Hillel; Ruben, Director of New York University in London and Professor of Philosophy at the School of Oriental and African Studies David-Hillel (2003). Action and Its Explanation. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-823588-0.
  19. ^ Chaitin, Gregory (2006), «The Limits Of Reason» (PDF), Scientific American, 294 (3): 74–81, Bibcode:2006SciAm.294c..74C, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0306-74, PMID 16502614, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04
  20. ^ Cristianini, Nello (2023). The shortcut: why intelligent machines do not think like us. Boca Raton. ISBN 978-1-003-33581-8. OCLC 1352480147.

External links[edit]

  • Understanding at PhilPapers
  • «Understanding in Epistemology». Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Источник

’ Nay, for the cause of ‘understanding’ also, they say the thing understood sendeth forth an ‘intelligible species, ’ that is, an ‘intelligible being seen, ’ which, coming into the understanding, makes us understand. ❋ Unknown (1909)

High marks for the title understanding also for you! ❋ Unknown (2008)

If my understanding is accurate, I do not understand how ❋ Unknown (2010)

In their model, they’ve made an assumption of what deficits do to the interest rate, and my understanding is they’re assuming a relatively significant impact. ❋ Ezra Klein (2010)

Implicit in this understanding is an acknowledgment that to the victors go the spoils, and that narrow interests of the strong almost always trump justice for the weak – that is, unless the “strong” actor is defeated by someone even stronger. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This understanding is the basis of the peace process. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here’s where my understanding is at right now, please agree, disagree, pick it apart, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In terms of Reindeer vs. Caribou, my understanding is as follows: ❋ Unknown (2008)

But my understanding is they will not finalize committee assignments until they know exactly how big their majority is — which means waiting for the Georgia run off and the Minnesota recount. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Your understanding is an interesting subject isn ` t it, why are you determined to misdread this article. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Why have you never come and asked me for what you call understanding? ❋ Unknown (2008)

And my understanding is the same applies to the vice president. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Just as there is a certain natural habit of the soul whereby it knows the principles of speculative science, which we call the understanding of the principles, so too in the soul is there a certain natural habit of the first principles of actions, which are the natural principles of natural law; and this habit pertains to synderesis and exists in no other power than reason. ❋ Celano, Anthony (2006)

But this contribution, that to our understanding is a recovery of the natural and cultural heritage, must take place based on a rational and consensual basis in respect of the right to make use of knowledge and natural resources, with guarantees for equality between Government and society. ❋ Unknown (1999)

This word in all other places of the New Testament doth constantly denote the essential faculty of our souls, which we call understanding, Matt. xxii. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

Our way is to teach our soul how the Intellectual-Principle exercises self-vision; the phase thus to be taught is that which already touches the intellective order, that which we call the understanding or intelligent soul, indicating by the very name that it is already of itself in some degree an Intellectual-Principle or that it holds its peculiar power through and from that Principle. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

In Paul the understanding is the seat of conscience; the heart is the seat of love [Bengel]. ❋ Unknown (1871)

[Jenna] told [me I] need to have more understanding about her menstual [cycle]. ❋ GothYena (2004)

[Be kind] and care for those who have [had it] hard,
Try understanding, walk a mile in their shoes.
Love the ones close to you as if it might be the last day you ever see them.
You can do all things [thru] Christ our load who strenghtens us. ❋ Black Brat (2010)

If both of you come to an understanding, both shall be at peace. Fighting, revenge, [bickering], [provoking] violence and anger will not work. Adding fuel to fire isn’t [favorable].
Do not let yourself be trapped in misunderstandings and hate. ❋ YouAreAtWarWithYourMind (2013)

(customer) «I want to return this [expired] chicken! It was expired two days ago!!!! »
([cashier]) » You bought this four weeks ago…»
(customer) » But it is expired!!! I need to return it»
(cashier) «[understandable]….»
**customer smiles and walks away, with expired chicken
** ❋ MartNad (2010)

Person 1: I really [care about] [you and i] don’t wanna see you [get hurt] 😢
Person 2: Understandable ❋ 50zMon007 (2020)

Understanding is a clear mental [comprehension]. It is the original child, which is the star. The highest form of understanding [is love], [the bond] between man and woman, or Knowledge and Wisdom. ❋ LiquidSwords (2005)

Yes I heard what you said [I apologize] [Harry’s] mother I didn’t mean to offend anyone and I hope we can make an [understandment] ❋ Memes Are Stupid (2018)

The [task] has a [high] understandability [rating] ❋ Dave Moorcroft (2003)

Figgy- woah what happened?
Emily- i [fell]!
Figgy- how?
Emily- it was [icy]!
Figgy- [ohh] okay understandable ❋ Emilymarieee (2010)

[The student] told [the teacher] she was not being understandful in the [difficult] situation. ❋ Queen2432 (2020)

Источник

Other forms: understandings

To be understanding is to be sympathetic to someone’s woes. Understanding a concept means you get it. Your understanding might be that your mother will always drive you to school if you miss the bus.

The sum of your knowledge of a certain topic, is your understanding of it. This can change, or deepen as you learn more. But being an understanding person doesn’t take a lot of studying — it takes opening your heart to appreciate what someone else feels or experiences. If someone says to you, «I thought we had an understanding,» you must have done something unexpected. Here, understanding means «an agreement.»

Definitions of understanding

  1. noun

    the cognitive condition of someone who understands

    “he has virtually no
    understanding of social cause and effect”

    synonyms:

    apprehension, discernment, savvy

  2. noun

    the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

  3. noun

    an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

    “I knew I could count on his
    understanding”

    synonyms:

    sympathy

  4. noun

    the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

    “there was an
    understanding between management and the workers”

    synonyms:

    agreement

    see moresee less

    types:

    show 32 types…
    hide 32 types…
    confederacy, conspiracy

    a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

    fair-trade agreement

    an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer

    covenant

    (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return

    unilateral contract

    a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)

    sale, sales agreement

    an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)

    bargain, deal

    an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each

    working agreement

    an informal agreement to work together

    gentlemen’s agreement

    a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding

    written agreement

    a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties

    submission

    an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter

    entente, entente cordiale

    a friendly understanding between political powers

    oral contract

    an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation

    reservation

    the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance

    settlement

    a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

    severance agreement

    an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave

    suicide pact

    an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time

    contract

    a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

    conspiracy of silence

    a conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event

    conditional sale

    a sale in which the buyer receives title to the property only upon the performance of some condition (usually the full payment of the purchase price)

    execution sale, forced sale, judicial sale, sheriff’s sale

    a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court’s writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation

    submission

    a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter

    compact, concordat, covenant

    a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

    indenture

    formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt

    obligation

    a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply

    accord, pact, treaty

    a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

    accommodation

    a settlement of differences

    conclusion

    a final settlement

    out-of-court settlement

    resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court

    property settlement

    (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage

    accord and satisfaction

    the settlement of a debt by paying less than the amount demanded in exchange for extinguishing the debt

    golden handshake

    a lucrative severance agreement offered to an employee (usually as an incentive to retire)

    escrow

    a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition

    type of:

    statement

    a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc

  5. adjective

    characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

    “an
    understanding friend”

    Synonyms:

    perceptive

    having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment

DISCLAIMER: These example sentences appear in various news sources and books to reflect the usage of the word ‘understanding’.
Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Vocabulary.com or its editors.
Send us feedback

EDITOR’S CHOICE

Look up understanding for the last time

Close your vocabulary gaps with personalized learning that focuses on teaching the
words you need to know.

VocabTrainer - Vocabulary.com's Vocabulary Trainer

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.

Get started

Источник

understanding — перевод на русский

/ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ/

I don’t understand how they could pull it off.

Я не понимаю как они могли это сделать.

I have all these marks on my body, and my shirt is broken, and I don’t remember. I don’t understand.

Я не понимаю.

I understand that every citizen is worried.

Я понимаю опасения жителей.

Because I don’t understand these things, in the future, if the official positions in the United States government have a standing, call me again to let me know.

Я многого не понимаю. В будущем звоните мне только по поводу официальных дел США.

And I understand if this means you don’t want to work with me… Look, let me finish.

— И я понимаю, если это значит, что вы не хотите работать со мной.

Показать ещё примеры для «понимаю»…

I don’t understand why I’m even staying.

Я не могу понять, почему до сих пор остаюсь.

I understand the precautions very well.

Могу понять ваше беспокойство.

In any relationship, there are no instances where one understands the other’s world completely.

что не можешь понять происходящего в мире другого.

I was able to understand my mother’s pain more clearly.

смог понять всю боль моей мамы.

Lest shipment of gold stolen bannot understand how bandits get their information.

Не можем понять, откуда бандиты берут информацию. Немедленно высылайте детектива.

Показать ещё примеры для «понять»…

What I don’t understand is why one adopts a son from another family in Japan?

Мне не понятно, зачем понадобилось принимать сына из другой семьи?

Yes. And that’s why I understand his conflict.

Да, и поэтому мне понятно его смятение.

No one is to enter the palace under any circumstances, understand?

Вечером никто не должен входить во дворец. Понятно? Да, сэр!

— That’s not hard to understand.

— Оно и понятно.

Mr. Greenberg, I hired you as an actor, not as a writer. Understand?

Пан Гринберг, вы актёр, а не драматург, понятно?

Показать ещё примеры для «понятно»…

This show is off, understand?

Шоу закрывается, ясно?

Now I understand everything. -What? How it could happen.

Мне ясно, как это могло случиться.

-Of course! Or don’t you understand it yet?

Или тебе ещё не всё с этим ясно?

Now I understand a lot of things!

Теперь мне многое стало ясно.

Показать ещё примеры для «ясно»…

Listen, Carrot-top, the most important thing in a relationship is understanding, harmony.

Слушай, Рыжик, самое важное в отношениях это понимание, гармония.

Surely the qualities of mercy, understanding and sweet forgiveness…

Такие качества как милосердие,.. -…понимание и кроткое всепрощение.

It’s understanding.

Это понимание.

Love and understanding won’t make a good detective out of a recalcitrant poet.

Любовь и понимание не сделают поэта хорошим детективом.

That lack of pretense, that strange directness and understanding.

Я давно не встречала таких людей. Никаких претензий. Удивительная прямота и понимание.

Показать ещё примеры для «понимание»…

I don’t understand.

Не знаю…

— I understand it.

— Знаю.

I can’t understand.

Сам не знаю.

Madame, I understand this was the rendezvous of the Musketeers.

Мадам, я знаю, что сюда приезжали мушкетеры.

I don’t understand these things.

Я и сама не знаю.

Показать ещё примеры для «знаю»…

Do you understand, Irma ?

Ты слышишь, Ирма?

Never, you understand?

Никогда — ты слышишь?

He’s no longer worth a damn, you understand?

Он ничтожество, ты слышишь?

Do you understand, Bel Ami?

Ты слышишь, Милый друг?

Egle, did you understand?

Эгле! Ты слышишь?

Показать ещё примеры для «слышишь»…

We should go en masse and demand to speak to whoever’s in charge and make them understand they can’t just keep us here.

Мы должны подойти все вместе и потребовать того, кто здесь главный, чтобы объяснить, что они не могут нас здесь держать.

Bielecki couldn’t understand Nina’s absence and he started to feel overwhelming anxiety.

Белецкий не мог себе объяснить отсутствие Нины, и им овладело скрытое беспокойство.

It’s so hard to make you understand.

Мне трудно это все объяснить.

But I tell you I understand.

Я могу все объяснить.

How can I make you understand?

Как мне объяснить вам?

Показать ещё примеры для «объяснить»…

— Ah, Temple, you’re so understanding.

— О, Темпл. Какой ты понимающий.

And no one with any true understanding would blame you for it.

И не один понимающий человек не посмеет вас за это винить.

You’ve been so understanding.

Вы такой понимающий

I know that you’re gentle and understanding, but…

Я знаю, что ты чуткая и понимающая, но…

Even if the lady is understanding, it’s cheap.

Даже если невеста понимающая, это несерьезно.

Показать ещё примеры для «понимающий»…

Why a daughter of mine should fool around with a hotel clerk… when she has the opportunity of marrying one of the Boston Yates… is more than I can understand,

И почему моя дочь путается с гостиничным клерком… когда она может выйти замуж за одного из бостонских Йетсов? — Мне это совершенно непонятно.

Don’t you understand?

— Неужели непонятно?

Try to understand.

Неужели непонятно?

Didn’t you understand me?

Неужели непонятно?

Something’s happened I don’t understand.

Случилось нечто непонятное.

Показать ещё примеры для «непонятно»…

Отправить комментарий

Источник

  • Top Definitions
  • Quiz
  • Related Content
  • Examples
  • British

This shows grade level based on the word’s complexity.

[ uhn-der-stan-ding ]

/ ˌʌn dərˈstæn dɪŋ /

This shows grade level based on the word’s complexity.

noun

mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.

intellectual faculties; intelligence; mind: a quick understanding.

superior power of discernment; enlightened intelligence: With her keen understanding she should have become a leader.

knowledge of or familiarity with a particular thing; skill in dealing with or handling something: an understanding of accounting practice.

a state of cooperative or mutually tolerant relations between people: To him, understanding and goodwill were the supreme virtues.

a mutual agreement, especially of a private, unannounced, or tacit kind: They had an understanding about who would do the dishes.

an agreement regulating joint activity or settling differences, often informal or preliminary in character: After hours of negotiation, no understanding on a new contract was reached.

Philosophy.

  1. the power of abstract thought; logical power.
  2. Kantianism. the mental faculty resolving the sensory manifold into the transcendental unity of apperception.

adjective

characterized by understanding; prompted by, based on, or demonstrating comprehension, intelligence, discernment, empathy, or the like: an understanding attitude.

QUIZ

CAN YOU ANSWER THESE COMMON GRAMMAR DEBATES?

There are grammar debates that never die; and the ones highlighted in the questions in this quiz are sure to rile everyone up once again. Do you know how to answer the questions that cause some of the greatest grammar debates?

Which sentence is correct?

Origin of understanding

before 1050; Middle English understandynge,late Old English understandincge (noun). See understand, -ing1, -ing2

OTHER WORDS FROM understanding

un·der·stand·ing·ly, adverbnon·un·der·stand·ing, adjective, nounnon·un·der·stand·ing·ly, adverbself-un·der·stand·ing, noun

Words nearby understanding

underspend, underspin, understaffed, understand, understandable, understanding, understate, understated, understatement, understeer, understock

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Words related to understanding

compassionate, considerate, empathetic, forgiving, generous, kindly, perceptive, sympathetic, awareness, grasp, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, perception, realization, recognition, sense, conclusion, idea

How to use understanding in a sentence

  • People get an approximate social understanding and that seems to work pretty well.

  • Jalisa Washington-Price, vice president, political and advocacy, iHeartMediaJane Mayer’s book gave me a deep understanding about the problem I wanted to fix.

  • Then, follow-up with why you grouped the ones that set off the same search results and are part of the same topic, for more understanding.

  • Although he wasn’t working for the co-op at that time, Miltenberger said, it is his understanding that the hospital wanted to help keep competition in that marketplace.

  • The goal is to develop a deeper understanding of how different approaches work or fall short.

  • Nothing made Groucho funnier than having this Margaret Dumont around not understanding the jokes.

  • Understanding my own dreams had a lot to do with getting me off the juice.

  • As she discussed her understanding of the voting rights campaign and how she planned to recreate it, I grew more relieved.

  • My understanding was that according to most Christian beliefs, being trans or gay was a sin, cut and dry.

  • Now half-awake, we need all the help we can get in understanding our situation.

  • I would ask you to imagine it translated into every language, a common material of understanding throughout all the world.

  • Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.

  • The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

  • The friars were exceedingly wroth, and combined to defeat the Generalʼs efforts to come to an understanding with the rebels.

  • The two enjoyed a mutual understanding from which he was excluded, a private intimacy that was spiritual, mental,— physical.

British Dictionary definitions for understanding

noun

the ability to learn, judge, make decisions, etc; intelligence or sense

personal opinion or interpretation of a subjectmy understanding of your predicament

a mutual agreement or compact, esp an informal or private one

mainly British an unofficial engagement to be married

philosophy archaic the mind, esp the faculty of reason

on the understanding that with the condition that; providing

adjective

sympathetic, tolerant, or wise towards people

possessing judgment and intelligence

Derived forms of understanding

understandingly, adverb

Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Источник

Noun



He has a thorough understanding of the subject.



She has a basic understanding of the process.



I hope to get a clearer understanding of the issues involved.



He seems to have little understanding of our situation.



We have an understanding that whoever cooks doesn’t have to do the dishes.



She treats them with kindness and understanding.



a relationship based on mutual understanding

Adjective



a kind and understanding teacher who often helps troubled students

See More

Recent Examples on the Web



That understanding stretches back more than 200 years to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.


—Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023




But some of the concern also stems from a lack of general understanding about the legal nuances and complexities of the case.


—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2023




Discrimination, lack of understanding by family, friends, co-workers or others, fewer opportunities for work, school or social activities or trouble finding housing; bullying, physical violence or harassment; and health insurance that doesn’t adequately cover mental illness treatment.


—Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023




This is what caused a lot of the trouble in the first place—a lack of understanding of zealotry.


—Noel Murray, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023




By studying this supernova remnant with Webb, astronomers hope to gain a better understanding of its dust content and, in turn, where the building blocks of planets and ourselves are created.


—Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 Apr. 2023




The author said there is a lack of understanding of the complex work specialists were hired to do, allowing for the slow pace to continue.


—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023




The footage, which was presented by director James Mangold and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, gives fans a better understanding of what’s going on in this movie.


—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2023




And as Seim and Zorita pointed out in their commentary, a better understanding of how these kinds of perturbations can affect climate will help scientists refine their climate models in the future.


—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2023



The researchers are interested in better understanding how cavefish remained healthy, even as their muscles evolved to store more fat and sugar.


—Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023




My grandson is just the opposite: loving, caring, helpful and understanding.


—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2022




My grandson is just the opposite: loving, caring, helpful and understanding.


—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022




For Kimball, who admittedly doesn’t speak for every neurodivergent person, the hope is audiences become more understanding and less judgmental of his behavior.


—John Benson, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022




For example, an empathetic leader is likely to be more understanding and give employees greater flexibility.


—Tom Gibby, Forbes, 7 July 2022




Your goal here is to listen more, ask the right follow-up questions and be extremely understanding of their frustrations.


—Expert Panel, Forbes, 15 June 2022




Luckily, Sami was very understanding and gave me a lot of guidance.


—Aliannah Shalikar, oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2022




No one in my sphere wasn’t accepting and understanding.


—Marc Jacobs, Vogue, 13 June 2022


See More

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word ‘understanding.’ Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Источник


На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать грубую лексику.


На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.

понимание означает

понимании означает


Often people even think understanding means finding a name, a word, a title or a label for a new or unexpected phenomenon.



Многие думают, что понимание означает обнаружение имени, слова, титула, ярлыка для нового или неожиданного явления.


To advocate organisation according to their understanding means to reproduce power — hierarchy, oppression.



Выступать за организацию в их понимании означает воспроизводить власть — иерархию, угнетение.


After a lot of time, they finally understand how much this person means to them and joyfully name him their best friend, which in their understanding means recognition in their own feelings.



По прошествие большого количества времени они, наконец, понимают, как много для них значит этот человек и с радостью нарекают его лучшим другом, что в их понимании означает признание в собственных чувствах.


An emotional obstacle is raised when the other person is viewed as an enemy or a rival, because understanding means being empathetic to the other person.



Когда другой человек рассматривается как враг или соперник, возникает эмоциональное препятствие, потому что понимание означает эмпатию к другому человеку.


This understanding means that whenever a central Bank increases the money supply in order to lower nominal interest rates, it has to do so with some moderation, in order to avoid causing inflationary fears that can offset the stimulatory effect of increasing the money supply.



Это понимание означает, что когда Федеральный резерв увеличивает предложение денег с тем, чтобы снизить процентные ставки, он должен делать это постепенно во избежание возникновения инфляционных страхов, которые могут нивелировать стимулирующий эффект от увеличения предложения денег.


According to him, the statement of the authors that if there is the end of time, it cannot be observed in normal human understanding means that there is no end of our time there.



По его словам, заявление авторов, что, если конец времени существует, то он ненаблюдаем, в нормальном человеческом понимании означает, что конца нашего времени нет.


Understanding means: a) comparing the data received with data already known so that they make sense.



Понимание означает: а) сравнение полученных данных с уже известными, так чтобы они обрели смысл.


Therefore, further chaotic escalation of tension in the absence of strategic understanding means even greater uncertainty for the region and almost guaranteed overheating.



Поэтому дальнейшая хаотичная эскалация напряженности при отсутствии стратегического осмысления означает для региона еще большую неопределенность и почти гарантированный перегрев.


Your help and understanding means so much to me.


They need to ask themselves what this understanding means for how they set their own pay and how they exploit — indeed actively create — tax and regulatory loopholes.



Они должны спросить себя, как это свежее прозрение повлияет на то, как они устанавливают собственную заработную плату и как они используют — и даже активно создают — налоговые и нормативные лазейки.


For us to develop a new and better idea, concept, theory or understanding means that the old idea, concept, theory or understanding must die.



Развить новую и лучшую идею, понимание или теорию для нас означает, что старая идея, понимание или теория должны умереть.


This understanding means respect to a person, living strongly, maintain a cheerful and bright look of life, value justice, courage and curiosity, and thus bringing love to your neighbors.



Понимание вышеизложенного означает уважение человека, живущего энергично, имеющего живой, оптимистичный взгляд на жизнь, справедливого, смелого и любознательного, что и приносит любовь его ближним


This shortfall in understanding means that people may be less likely to take steps to maintain their own brain health, to seek a diagnosis or to support research that has the power to bring about breakthroughs and transform lives.



«Прорывы в общественном понимании имеет потенциал, чтобы дать больше людей, чтобы принять меры для поддержания собственного здоровья мозга, чтобы искать диагноз и оказывать поддержку научным исследованиям, обладает силой, которая преобразует жизнь».


This new economic understanding means more than ever that we must abandon the logic that says that we should have, on one hand, those who produce only raw materials and, on the other, those who produce only finished products.



Эта новая экономическая концепция сейчас, как никогда ранее, диктует необходимость отказаться от логики, согласно которой в мире должны быть, с одной стороны, страны-производители только сырья, а, с другой стороны, страны-производители только готовой продукции.


I want to understand, Dawkins added fiercely, and understanding means to me scientific understanding.



«Я хочу понять, — с жаром добавил Докинс, — и понимание для меня означает научное понимание» (цит. по Хорган Дж.


Such contracts will be verified by JICA to be eligible for the Grant (The term «Japanese nationals» in the present understanding means Japanese physical persons or Japanese juridical persons controlled by Japanese physical persons).



Такие контракты должны быть проверены Правительством Японии на допустимость для финансирования из средств Гранта (термин «японские подданные», где бы ни использовался в настоящих договоренностях, означает либо японские физические лица, либо японские юридические лица, контролируемые японскими физическими лицами.)


Knowing without understanding means nothing.


Understanding means, first of all, respect for the other and hearing the other.



Понимать — это в первую очередь означает проявление уважения к другим и умение слушать собеседника.

Ничего не найдено для этого значения.

Результатов: 19. Точных совпадений: 19. Затраченное время: 108 мс

Documents

Корпоративные решения

Спряжение

Синонимы

Корректор

Справка и о нас

Индекс слова: 1-300, 301-600, 601-900

Индекс выражения: 1-400, 401-800, 801-1200

Индекс фразы: 1-400, 401-800, 801-1200

Источник
  • Define
  • Relate
  • List
  • Discuss
  • See
  • Hear
  • unLove

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The ability by which one understands; intelligence.
  • noun The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension: synonym: reason.
  • noun Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion.
  • noun A usually implicit agreement between two or more people or groups.
  • noun A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy.
  • adjective Characterized by or having good sense or compassion.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Knowing; skilful; intelligent; possessed of or exhibiting good sense.
  • noun The act of one who understands or comprehends; comprehension; apprehension and appreciation; discernment.
  • noun The knowing power, in general; intelligence; wit.
  • noun The representative faculty; the power of abstract thought; the logical power.
  • noun Intelligence between two or more persons; agreement of minds; harmony; union of sentiment; also, something mutually understood or agreed upon: as, there was an understanding between them.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Knowing; intelligent; skillful.
  • noun The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
  • noun An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon.
  • noun 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.
  • noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.
  • noun countable Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
  • noun countable Opinion, judgement or outlook.
  • noun countable An informal contract, mutual agreement.
  • noun countable A reconciliation of differences.
  • noun uncountable Sympathy.
  • noun All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
  • adjective Showing compassion.
  • verb Present participle of understand.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
  • noun the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
  • adjective characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy
  • noun the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
  • noun the cognitive condition of someone who understands

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word understanding.

Examples

  • ’ Nay, for the cause of ‘understanding’ also, they say the thing understood sendeth forth an ‘intelligible species, ’ that is, an ‘intelligible being seen, ’ which, coming into the understanding, makes us understand.

    Chapter I. Of Sense

  • High marks for the title understanding also for you!

    Fall Frost Or Warm Hands Cold Heart « Fairegarden

  • If my understanding is accurate, I do not understand how

    Chen Ping aka Ralph J Effner

  • In their model, they’ve made an assumption of what deficits do to the interest rate, and my understanding is they’re assuming a relatively significant impact.

    Excerpt from voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein

  • Implicit in this understanding is an acknowledgment that to the victors go the spoils, and that narrow interests of the strong almost always trump justice for the weak – that is, unless the “strong” actor is defeated by someone even stronger.

    Matthew Yglesias » Means and Ends

  • In their model, they’ve made an assumption of what deficits do to the interest rate, and my understanding is they’re assuming a relatively significant impact.

    Excerpt from voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein

  • This understanding is the basis of the peace process.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence

  • Here’s where my understanding is at right now, please agree, disagree, pick it apart, etc.

    Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola

  • In terms of Reindeer vs. Caribou, my understanding is as follows:

    Matthew Yglesias » When the CW Is Right

  • But my understanding is they will not finalize committee assignments until they know exactly how big their majority is — which means waiting for the Georgia run off and the Minnesota recount.

    House GOP Leadership Elections — Swampland — TIME.com

Источник

Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

  1. understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvynoun

    the cognitive condition of someone who understands

    «he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect»

  2. agreement, understandingnoun

    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. sympathy, understandingnoun

    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. reason, understanding, intellectadjective

    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»

  5. understandingadjective

    characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

    «an understanding friend»

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

  1. understandingnoun

    Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.

  2. understandingnoun

    Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.

  3. understandingnoun

    Opinion, judgement or outlook.

    According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too.

  4. understandingnoun

    An informal contract, mutual agreement.

    I thought we had an understanding — you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.

  5. understandingnoun

    A reconciliation of differences.

    The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.

  6. understandingnoun

    Sympathy.

    He showed much understanding when he found out of my troublesome familial history.

  7. understandingnoun

    All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.

  8. understandingadjective

    Showing compassion.

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Understandingadjective

    Knowing; skilful.

    The present physician is a very understanding man, and well read.
    Joseph Addison, Remarks on Italy.

  2. Understandingnoun

    Etymology: from understand.

    1. Intellectual powers; faculties of the mind, especially those of knowledge and judgment.

    I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.
    William Shakespeare, Winter Tale.

    Make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord.
    Isaiah.

    It maketh day-light understanding, out of darkness.
    Francis Bacon.

    When she rates things, and moves from ground to ground,
    The name of reason she obtains by this:
    But when by reason she the truth hath found,
    And standeth fix’d, she understanding is.
    Davies.

    Life and sense,
    Fancy and understanding: whence the soul
    Reason receives, and reason is her being.
    John Milton.

    God is to the understanding of man, as the light of the sun is to our eyes, its first and most glorious object.
    John Tillotson.

    2. Skill.

    The understandings of a senate are often enslaved by three or four leaders.
    Jonathan Swift.

    Right understanding consists in the perception of the visible or probable agreement or disagreement of ideas.
    John Locke.

    Very mean people have raised their minds to a great sense and understanding of religion.
    John Locke.

    3. Intelligence; terms of communication.

    He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people.
    Edward Hyde.

    We have got into some understanding with the enemy, by means of Don Diego.
    Arbuthnot.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Understanding

    Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to use concepts to model that object.
    Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge that are sufficient to support intelligent behavior.Understanding is often, though not always, related to learning concepts, and sometimes also the theory or theories associated with those concepts. However, a person may have a good ability to predict the behavior of an object, animal or system—and therefore may, in some sense, understand it—without necessarily being familiar with the concepts or theories associated with that object, animal, or system in their culture. They may have developed their own distinct concepts and theories, which may be equivalent, better or worse than the recognized standard concepts and theories of their culture. Thus, understanding is correlated with the ability to make inferences.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

  1. Understanding

    of Understand

  2. Understandingadjective

    knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man

  3. Understandingnoun

    the act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation

  4. Understandingnoun

    an agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another

  5. Understandingnoun

    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

  6. Understandingnoun

    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

FreebaseRate this definition:4.0 / 3 votes

  1. Understanding

    Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge sufficient to support intelligent behavior.
    An understanding is the limit of a conceptualization. To understand something is to have conceptualized it to a given measure.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. understanding

    The intuitive feeling, knowing, intelligence, act, fact and ability to understand.

    It was their understanding that both their families would be attending the full wedding and cousins attending the afters of the wedding.

    Submitted by MaryC on January 20, 2020  

  2. understanding

    Verb from of the word understand.

    The understanding of the team is accurate and clear so we always remain united through all moments of time.

    Submitted by MaryC on August 14, 2020  

Matched Categories

    • Inclination
    • Statement

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word ‘Understanding’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1354

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word ‘Understanding’ in Written Corpus Frequency: #2137

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word ‘Understanding’ in Nouns Frequency: #610

How to pronounce Understanding?

How to say Understanding in sign language?

Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Understanding in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Understanding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Understanding in a Sentence

  1. Cui Tiankai:

    With sufficient mutual respect and mutual understanding, we are capable of managing these differences so that they would not derail the entire relationship.

  2. John Cornyn:

    What we need to do is elevate everybody’s understanding of what China’s strategic long-term goals are and they are to dominate the United States economically and militarily, they’ve got a very clear strategy for doing that and we need to wake up to that and make sure we’re responding in kind.

  3. Matt Ashton:

    This is going to be part I think of a longer journey of understanding how we live with Covid more safely in the future.

  4. Jennifer Schramm:

    It’s not always just about the skills; it’s about understanding the business, and that takes some time for a new employee, to be able to hang on to your staff that’s been there and that understands the business is a real advantage.

  5. Imran Chaudhri:

    Steve Jobs used to say that the computer was like a bicycle for the mind. With that analogy, the smartphone (given its intimacy) is more like an automobile. It comes with tremendous power and autonomy. You have to have the discipline and understanding to know how to handle it.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

Understanding#1#1670#10000

Translations for Understanding

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

  • رؤية, تفاهم, فهمArabic
  • comprensiuCatalan, Valencian
  • porozumění, pochopení, dohodaCzech
  • forstand, aftale, forståelse, forståendeDanish
  • verständnisvoll, Einigung, Vereinbarung, Verständnis, VerstehenGerman
  • κατανόησηGreek
  • intelektoEsperanto
  • avenimiento, compromiso, comprensiónSpanish
  • myötätunto, ymmärtäväinen, näkökulma, näkemys, ymmärtäminen, ymmärrys, käsittäminen, käsitys, yhteisymmärrys, sovinto, myötätuntoinenFinnish
  • compréhensionFrench
  • aontachadh, còrdadhScottish Gaelic
  • comprensioneItalian
  • הבנהHebrew
  • 納得Japanese
  • intellectus, capiens, videns, intellegens, sciensLatin
  • verstandhouding, overeenkomstDutch
  • forståelseNorwegian
  • compreensivo, compreensãoPortuguese
  • пониманиеRussian
  • förståelse, överenskommelseSwedish
  • masikizanoSwahili
  • anlayışTurkish

Get even more translations for Understanding »

Translation

Find a translation for the Understanding definition in other languages:

Select another language:

  • — Select —
  • 简体中文 (Chinese — Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese — Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Word of the Day

Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

Citation

Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:

Are we missing a good definition for Understanding? Don’t keep it to yourself…

Источник

un·der·stand·ing

 (ŭn′dər-stăn′dĭng)

n.

1.

a. The ability by which one understands; intelligence: concepts that are beyond the understanding of a child.

b. The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension: Do you have much understanding of calculus? See Synonyms at reason.

2. Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion: In my understanding, this is a good plan.

3. A usually implicit agreement between two or more people or groups: an understanding between neighbors over late-night noise.

4. A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy: Can’t you show some understanding for the poor child?

adj.

Characterized by or having good sense or compassion: an understanding teacher.

un′der·stand′ing·ly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

understanding

(ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ)

n

1. the ability to learn, judge, make decisions, etc; intelligence or sense

2. personal opinion or interpretation of a subject: my understanding of your predicament.

3. a mutual agreement or compact, esp an informal or private one

4. chiefly Brit an unofficial engagement to be married

5. (Philosophy) philosophy archaic the mind, esp the faculty of reason

6. on the understanding that with the condition that; providing

adj

7. sympathetic, tolerant, or wise towards people

8. possessing judgment and intelligence

ˌunderˈstandingly adv

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

un•der•stand•ing

(ˌʌn dərˈstæn dɪŋ)

n.

1. the mental process of a person who understands; comprehension; personal interpretation.

2. intellectual faculties; intelligence.

3. knowledge of or familiarity with a particular thing.

4. a state of cooperation between people, nations, factions, etc.

5. a mutual agreement.

adj.

6. characterized by comprehension, empathy, or the like.

[before 1050]

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

Understanding

an impaired state of the power of speech or of the ability to comprehend language, caused by injury to the brain.

the power of entering into another’s personality and imaginatively experiencing his feelings. — empathie, adj.

an additional explanation; the use of more words to clarify further. — epexegetic, epexegetical, adj.

the science of intuition and reason as phenomena of the mind. — noological, adj.

-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

comprehension

– understanding

1. ‘comprehension’

Both comprehension and understanding can be used to talk about someone’s ability to understand something.

He noted Bond’s apparent lack of comprehension.

The problems of solar navigation seem beyond comprehension.

A very narrow subject would have become too highly technical for general understanding.

2. ‘understanding’

If you have an understanding of something, you have some knowledge of it, or you know how it works or what it means.

The past decade has seen huge advances in our general understanding of how the ear works.

The job requires an understanding of Spanish.

You cannot use comprehension with this meaning.

Understanding has another meaning. If there is understanding between people, they are friendly towards each other and trust each other.

What we need is greater understanding between management and workers.

Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun 1. understanding - the cognitive condition of someone who understandsunderstanding — the cognitive condition of someone who understands; «he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect»

discernment, savvy, apprehension

knowing — a clear and certain mental apprehension

comprehension — an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result); «how you can do that is beyond my comprehension»; «he was famous for his comprehension of American literature»

self-knowledge — an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities

smattering — a slight or superficial understanding of a subject

appreciation, grasp, hold — understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; «he has a good grasp of accounting practices»

grasping — understanding with difficulty; «the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings»

hindsight — understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; «hindsight is always better than foresight»

brainstorm, brainwave, insight — the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation

realization, realisation, recognition — coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; «a growing realization of the risk involved»; «a sudden recognition of the problem he faced»; «increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases»
2. understanding - the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promisesunderstanding — 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»

agreement

conspiracy, confederacy — a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

fair-trade agreement — an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer

covenant — (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return

unilateral contract — a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)

sales agreement, sale — an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer); «the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office»

statement — a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; «according to his statement he was in London on that day»

term, condition — (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; «the contract set out the conditions of the lease»; «the terms of the treaty were generous»

bargain, deal — an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each; «he made a bargain with the devil»; «he rose to prominence through a series of shady deals»

working agreement — an informal agreement to work together

gentlemen’s agreement — a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding

written agreement — a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties

submission — an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter

entente, entente cordiale — a friendly understanding between political powers

oral contract — an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation

reservation — the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance

settlement — a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

severance agreement — an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave

suicide pact — an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time; «the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact»
3. understanding - an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinionunderstanding — 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»

sympathy

inclination, tendency, disposition — an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; «he had an inclination to give up too easily»; «a tendency to be too strict»
4. understanding - the capacity for rational thought or inference or discriminationunderstanding — 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»

intellect, reason

faculty, mental faculty, module — one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Adj. 1. understanding - characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathyunderstanding — characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; «an understanding friend»

perceptive — having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment; «a perceptive eye»; «a perceptive observation»

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

understanding

noun

1. perception, knowledge, grasp, sense, know-how (informal), intelligence, judgment, awareness, appreciation, insight, skill, penetration, mastery, comprehension, familiarity with, discernment, proficiency They have to have a basic understanding of computers.
perception ignorance, incomprehension, obtuseness

2. sympathy, consideration, sensitivity, love, concern, humanity, affection, warmth, tolerance, goodwill, compassion, kindness, empathy, tenderness, neighbourliness, humanitarianism, fellow feeling, considerateness, kind feeling, kind-heartedness We would like to thank them for their patience and understanding.
sympathy insensitivity

3. agreement, deal, promise, arrangement, accord, contract, bond, pledge, bargain, pact, compact, concord, gentlemen’s agreement We had not set a date but there was an understanding between us.
agreement dispute, disagreement

4. belief, view, opinion, impression, interpretation, feeling, idea, conclusion, notion, conviction, judgment, assumption, point of view, perception, suspicion, viewpoint, hunch, way of thinking, estimation, supposition, sneaking suspicion, funny feeling It is my understanding that this has been going on for many years.

adjective

1. sympathetic, kind, compassionate, considerate, kindly, accepting, patient, sensitive, forgiving, discerning, tolerant, responsive, perceptive, forbearing Her boss, who was very understanding, gave her time off.
sympathetic insensitive, unsympathetic, inconsiderate, intolerant, unfeeling, strict

Quotations
«Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will» [Martin Luther King Jr Letter from Birmingham Jail]
«The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding» [Francis Bacon Novum Organum]
«I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out» Bible: II Esdras

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

understanding

noun

2. The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge:

Slang: smart (used in plural).

3. An act or state of agreeing between parties regarding a course of action:

adjective

Cognizant of and comprehending the needs, feelings, problems, and views of others:

The American Heritage® Roget’s Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Translations

chápajícíchápavýinteligenceporozuměníshoda

forståendeforstandforståelse

ymmärtäväinen

uviđavan

értelmi képesség

samkomulagskilningsríkurskilningur

話がわかる

이해심 있는

chápajúci

dogovorrazumevajočrazumevanje

förstående

ที่เข้าใจ อย่างเห็นอกเห็นใจ

thông cảm

understanding

[ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ]

B. N

5. (= belief) it was my understanding that …; my understanding was that → tenía entendido que …, según yo creía …

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

understanding

[ˌʌndərˈstændɪŋ]

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

understanding

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

understanding

[ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ]

1. adj (person) → comprensivo/a; (smile) → indulgente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

understand

(andəˈstӕnd) verb – past tense, past participle ˌunderˈstood (-ˈstud) –

1. to see or know the meaning of (something). I can’t understand his absence; Speak slowly to foreigners so that they’ll understand you.

2. to know (eg a person) thoroughly. She understands children/dogs.

3. to learn or realize (something), eg from information received. At first I didn’t understand how ill she was; I understood that you were planning to leave today.

ˌunderˈstandable adjective

that can be understood. His anger is quite understandable.

ˌunderˈstanding adjective

(of a person) good at knowing how other people feel; sympathetic. an understanding person; Try to be more understanding!

noun

1. the power of thinking clearly. a man of great understanding.

2. the ability to sympathize with another person’s feelings. His kindness and understanding were a great comfort to her.

3. a (state of) informal agreement. The two men have come to / reached an understanding after their disagreement.

make (oneself) understood

to make one’s meaning or intentions clear. He tried speaking German to them, but couldn’t make himself understood.

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

understanding

→ مُتَفَهِّم chápavý forstående verständnisvoll που δείχνει κατανόηση comprensivo ymmärtäväinen compréhensif uviđavan comprensivo 話がわかる 이해심 있는 begripvol forståelsesfull wyrozumiały compreensivo понимающий förstående ที่เข้าใจ อย่างเห็นอกเห็นใจ anlayış thông cảm 善解人意的

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

Источник

Понравилась статья? Поделить с друзьями:
  • The word understanding in spanish
  • The word understanding in french
  • The word understand in spanish
  • The word understand in italian
  • The word understand in german