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understood |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Understand \Un`der*stand"\ ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Understood}, 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Understood \Un`der*stood"\, imp. & p. p. of {Understand}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: understood adj 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}]
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