Understand

·vi To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.

II. Understand ·vt To stand under; to Support.

III. Understand ·vi To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.

IV. Understand ·vt To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to Assume.

V. Understand ·vt To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to Interpret; to Explain.

VI. Understand ·vt To be apprised, or have information, of; to Learn; to be informed of; to Hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.

VII. Understand ·vt 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.