Definition of understand

• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
• v. t. - To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
• v. t. - To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
• v. t. - To stand under; to support.
• v. i. - To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
• v. i. - To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.