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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Understand \Un'der*stand"\ ([u^]n'd[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Understood} (([u^]n'd[~e]r*st[oo^]d"),), and Archaic {Understanded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Understanding}.] [OE. understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is not clear. See {Under}, and {Stand}.]
1. 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.
Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time, I you pray, That we may understande what ye say. --Chaucer.
I understand not what you mean by this. --Shak.
Understood not all was but a show. --Milton.
A tongue not understanded of the people. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
2. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
3. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel. --Locke.
4. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
War, then, war, Open or understood, must be resolved. --Milton.
5. To stand under; to support. [Jocose & R.] --Shak.
{To give one to understand}, to cause one to know.
{To make one's self understood}, to make one's meaning clear.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Understood \Un'der*stood"\, imp. & p. p. of {Understand}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
understood See {understand}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
understood
adjective
1: fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation; "the understood conditions of troop withdrawal were clear" [ant: {ununderstood}]
2: indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement" [syn: {implied}, {silent}, {tacit}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
understand
verb
1: know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"
2: perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" [syn: {realize}, {realise}, {see}]
3: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: {read}, {interpret}, {translate}]
4: believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" [syn: {infer}]
5: be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!" [syn: {sympathize}, {sympathise}, {empathize}, {empathise}] [also: {understood}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "understood": accepted, accounted as, acknowledged, admitted, agreed, alleged, appreciated, apprehended, arranged, ascertained, assumed, assumptive, comprehended, conceded, conceived, conjectured, conventional, covenanted, customary, deemed, discerned, down pat, established, fixed, folk, given, granted, grasped, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, implicit, implied, inferred, inveterate, known, legendary, long-established, long-standing, mythological, of long standing, of the folk, oral, pat, perceived, postulated, postulational, prehended, premised, prescriptive, presumed, presumptive, putative, realized, received, recognized, reputed, rooted, seized, settled, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, tacit, taken for granted, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, undeclared, unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, unuttered, unwritten, venerable, wordless, worshipful
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