understand /un-dər-standˈ/

1. To comprehend
2. To grasp with the mind
3. To be able to follow the working, logic, or meaning, etc, of
4. To take the meaning of (a sign or a person)
5. To realize
6. To have a sympathetic, usu tacit, perception of the character and aims, etc, of (a person)
7. To know the meaning of
8. To be expert in
9. To have knowledge or information (that), to have been informed
10. To assume, take to be true
11. To interpret (as), take to mean
12. To imply
13. To support
14. (reflexive) to know how to conduct (oneself) (Shakespeare)
15. To stand under (Shakespeare)

1. To have understanding
2. To comprehend

understandˈable adjective

understandˈer noun

1. Someone who understands
2. A supporter (Browning)
3. Someone who stands in the pit of a theatre (obsolete)

understandˈing noun

1. The act of comprehending
2. The power to understand
3. Intellect
4. An informal agreement
5. An understood condition (eg on the understanding that)
6. Sympathetic or amicable agreement of minds
7. (in pl) feet, legs, shoes, boots (old slang)

1. Intelligent
2. Discerning
3. Sympathetic

understandˈingly adverb

understoodˈ adjective (often grammar)

Implied but not expressed

understand each other or one another

To have reached an agreement, sometimes collusive

• copiously
• copiousness
• copiousnesses
• cop it
• copita
• copitas
• cop it sweet
• coplanar
• coplanarities
• coplanarity
• cop off
• cop off with
• co-polymer
• copolymer
• co-polymerisation
• co-polymerise
• co-polymerised
• co-polymerises
• co-polymerising
• co-polymerization
• co-polymerize
• co-polymerized
• co-polymerizes
• co-polymerizing
• co-polymers