- Comprehend - Learn - Reason, ... cause - To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended
the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to
know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a
proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his
argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a
wink. - To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn;
to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed
the bill. - To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to
suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. - To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to
take for granted; to assume.