| cue | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. cue | an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech. |
| ~ actor's line, words, speech | words making up the dialogue of a play.; "the actor forgot his speech" |
| ~ prompt, prompting | a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken).; "the audience could hear his prompting" |
| n. (communication) | 2. clew, clue, cue | evidence that helps to solve a problem. |
| ~ evidence | an indication that makes something evident.; "his trembling was evidence of his fear" |
| ~ sign, mark | a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened).; "he showed signs of strain"; "they welcomed the signs of spring" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. cue, discriminative stimulus | a stimulus that provides information about what to do. |
| ~ stimulant, stimulus, stimulation, input | any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. cue, cue stick, pool cue, pool stick | sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards. |
| ~ sports implement | an implement used in a sport. |
| ~ stock | the handle end of some implements or tools.; "he grabbed the cue by the stock" |
| v. (communication) | 5. cue, prompt, remind | assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned. |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| definition | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. definition | a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol. |
| ~ explanation, account | a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc..; "the explanation was very simple"; "I expected a brief account" |
| ~ contextual definition | a definition in which the term is used by embedding it in a larger expression containing its explanation.; "a contextual definition of `legal duty' might be `X has a legal duty to do Y means that X is required to do Y by a contract relationship that would be upheld in a court of law'" |
| ~ dictionary definition | a definition that reports the standard uses of a word or phrase or symbol. |
| ~ explicit definition | a definition that gives an exact equivalent of the term defined. |
| ~ ostensive definition | a definition that points out or exhibits instances of the term defined. |
| ~ recursive definition | (mathematics) a definition of a function from which values of the function can be calculated in a finite number of steps. |
| ~ redefinition | the act of giving a new definition.; "words like `conservative' require periodic redefinition"; "she provided a redefinition of his duties" |
| ~ stipulative definition | a definition that is stipulated by someone and that is not a standard usage. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. definition | clarity of outline.; "exercise had given his muscles superior definition" |
| ~ distinctness, sharpness | the quality of being sharp and clear. |
| hint | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. breath, hint, intimation | an indirect suggestion.; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her" |
| ~ proffer, proposition, suggestion | a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection.; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse" |
| n. (communication) | 2. clue, hint | a slight indication. |
| ~ indicant, indication | something that serves to indicate or suggest.; "an indication of foul play"; "indications of strain"; "symptoms are the prime indicants of disease" |
| n. (quantity) | 3. hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch | a slight but appreciable amount.; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| ~ snuff | a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time. |
| n. (quantity) | 4. hint, suggestion, trace | a just detectable amount.; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| ~ spark | a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger.; "a spark of interest"; "a spark of decency" |
| n. (communication) | 5. confidential information, hint, lead, steer, tip, wind | an indication of potential opportunity.; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" |
| ~ counseling, counselling, guidance, counsel, direction | something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action. |
| v. (communication) | 6. hint, suggest | drop a hint; intimate by a hint. |
| ~ intimate, adumbrate, insinuate | give to understand.; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" |
| ~ clue in | provide someone with a clue.; "Can you clue me in?" |
| ~ convey | make known; pass on, of information.; "She conveyed the message to me" |
| ~ allude, advert, touch | make a more or less disguised reference to.; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" |
| connote | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. connote, imply | express or state indirectly. |
| ~ evince, express, show | give expression to.; "She showed her disappointment" |
| v. (communication) | 2. connote, predicate | involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic.; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well" |
| ~ imply | suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic. |
| convey | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. convey | make known; pass on, of information.; "She conveyed the message to me" |
| ~ give thanks, thank | express gratitude or show appreciation to. |
| ~ hint, suggest | drop a hint; intimate by a hint. |
| ~ say | communicate or express nonverbally.; "What does this painting say?"; "Did his face say anything about how he felt?" |
| ~ look | convey by one's expression.; "She looked her devotion to me" |
| ~ flash | make known or cause to appear with great speed.; "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts" |
| ~ breathe | manifest or evince.; "She breathes the Christian spirit" |
| ~ evince, express, show | give expression to.; "She showed her disappointment" |
| ~ mean, intend | mean or intend to express or convey.; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" |
| ~ impart, pass on, give, leave | transmit (knowledge or skills).; "give a secret to the Russians"; "leave your name and address here"; "impart a new skill to the students" |
| v. (communication) | 2. carry, convey, express | serve as a means for expressing something.; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" |
| ~ measure, quantify | express as a number or measure or quantity.; "Can you quantify your results?" |
| ~ communicate, intercommunicate | transmit thoughts or feelings.; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" |
| ~ channel, transmit, carry, impart, conduct, convey | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" |
| v. (possession) | 3. communicate, convey, transmit | transfer to another.; "communicate a disease" |
| ~ communicate, pass along, put across, pass on, pass | transmit information.; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" |
| ~ transfer | move from one place to another.; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital" |
| v. (possession) | 4. convey | transmit a title or property. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ transfer | cause to change ownership.; "I transferred my stock holdings to my children" |
| v. (motion) | 5. carry, channel, conduct, convey, impart, transmit | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" |
| ~ convey, express, carry | serve as a means for expressing something.; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" |
| ~ bring, convey, take | take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" |
| ~ wash up | carry somewhere (of water or current or waves).; "The tide washed up the corpse" |
| ~ pipe in | bring in through pipes.; "Music was piped into the offices" |
| ~ bring in | transmit.; "The microphone brought in the sounds from the room next to mine" |
| ~ retransmit | transmit again. |
| ~ carry | be conveyed over a certain distance.; "Her voice carries very well in this big opera house" |
| v. (motion) | 6. bring, convey, take | take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" |
| ~ fetch, bring, get, convey | go or come after and bring or take back.; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" |
| ~ fetch | take away or remove.; "The devil will fetch you!" |
| ~ bring | be accompanied by.; "Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?" |
| ~ carry, transport | move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body.; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" |
| ~ come, come up | move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" |
| ~ transit | cause or enable to pass through.; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day" |
| ~ ferry | transport from one place to another. |
| ~ bring back, take back, return | bring back to the point of departure. |
| ~ tube | convey in a tube.; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail" |
| ~ whisk | move somewhere quickly.; "The President was whisked away in his limo" |
| ~ channel, transmit, carry, impart, conduct, convey | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" |
| ~ land | bring ashore.; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
| v. (contact) | 7. bring, convey, fetch, get | go or come after and bring or take back.; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" |
| ~ retrieve | run after, pick up, and bring to the master.; "train the dog to retrieve" |
| ~ retrieve | go for and bring back.; "retrieve the car from the parking garage" |
| ~ channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport, transfer | send from one person or place to another.; "transmit a message" |
| ~ deliver | bring to a destination, make a delivery.; "our local super market delivers" |
| ~ come, come up | move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" |
| ~ bring, convey, take | take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" |
| enlighten | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. edify, enlighten | make understand.; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal" |
| ~ instruct, teach, learn | impart skills or knowledge to.; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" |
| v. (communication) | 2. enlighten, irradiate | give spiritual insight to; in religion. |
| ~ prophesy, vaticinate | predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration. |
| v. (cognition) | 3. clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out | make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" |
| ~ clarify, clear up, elucidate | make clear and (more) comprehensible.; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" |
| imply | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. imply | suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic. |
| ~ presuppose, suppose | require as a necessary antecedent or precondition.; "This step presupposes two prior ones" |
| ~ intimate, suggest | imply as a possibility.; "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification" |
| ~ connote, predicate | involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic.; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well" |
| ~ evince, express, show | give expression to.; "She showed her disappointment" |
| v. (stative) | 2. entail, imply, mean | have as a logical consequence.; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" |
| ~ necessitate | cause to be a concomitant. |
| v. (stative) | 3. imply, incriminate, inculpate | suggest that someone is guilty. |
| ~ paint a picture, evoke, suggest | call to mind.; "this remark evoked sadness" |
| v. (stative) | 4. imply, involve | have as a necessary feature.; "This decision involves many changes" |
| ~ feature, have | have as a feature.; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France" |
| ~ carry | be necessarily associated with or result in or involve.; "This crime carries a penalty of five years in prison" |
| mean | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. mean, mean value | an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n. |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| ~ average, norm | a statistic describing the location of a distribution.; "it set the norm for American homes" |
| ~ arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment, expectation | the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values. |
| ~ geometric mean | the mean of n numbers expressed as the n-th root of their product. |
| ~ harmonic mean | the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers. |
| v. (communication) | 2. intend, mean | mean or intend to express or convey.; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" |
| ~ stand for, symbolize, represent, symbolise, typify | express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol.; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" |
| ~ convey | make known; pass on, of information.; "She conveyed the message to me" |
| ~ signify | convey or express a meaning.; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?" |
| ~ spell, import | indicate or signify.; "I'm afraid this spells trouble!" |
| ~ aim | direct (a remark) toward an intended goal.; "She wanted to aim a pun" |
| ~ aim, drive, get | move into a desired direction of discourse.; "What are you driving at?" |
| v. (communication) | 3. intend, mean, signify, stand for | denote or connote.; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means" |
| ~ denote, refer | have as a meaning.; "`multi-' denotes `many' " |
| ~ signify | convey or express a meaning.; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. intend, mean, think | have in mind as a purpose.; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night" |
| ~ design | intend or have as a purpose.; "She designed to go far in the world of business" |
| ~ be after, plan | have the will and intention to carry out some action.; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" |
| ~ purpose, aim, purport, propose | propose or intend.; "I aim to arrive at noon" |
| v. (stative) | 5. mean | have a specified degree of importance.; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. have in mind, mean, think of | intend to refer to.; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" |
| ~ associate, colligate, link, relate, connect, tie in, link up | make a logical or causal connection.; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" |
| ~ cite, mention, refer, advert, name, bring up | make reference to.; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. mean | destine or designate for a certain purpose.; "These flowers were meant for you" |
| ~ destine, intend, designate, specify | design or destine.; "She was intended to become the director" |
| adj. | 8. average, mean | approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" |
| ~ statistics | a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters. |
| ~ normal | conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal.; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events" |
| adj. | 9. hateful, mean | characterized by malice.; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood" |
| ~ nasty, awful | offensive or even (of persons) malicious.; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?" |
| adj. | 10. base, mean, meanspirited | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" |
| ~ ignoble | completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part" |
| adj. | 11. mean | excellent.; "famous for a mean backhand" |
| ~ argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, slang, cant | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| ~ skilled | having or showing or requiring special skill.; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade" |
| adj. | 12. beggarly, mean | marked by poverty befitting a beggar.; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" |
| ~ poor | characterized by or indicating poverty.; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town" |
| adj. | 13. mean, mingy, miserly, tight | (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" |
| ~ stingy, ungenerous | unwilling to spend.; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" |
| adj. | 14. beggarly, mean | (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt. |
| ~ stingy, ungenerous | unwilling to spend.; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" |
| adj. | 15. bastardly, mean | of no value or worth.; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic" |
| ~ contemptible | deserving of contempt or scorn. |
| sabot | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. sabot, wooden shoe | a shoe carved from a single block of wood. |
| ~ shoe | footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. clog, geta, patten, sabot | footwear usually with wooden soles. |
| ~ footgear, footwear | covering for a person's feet. |
| deduce | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. deduce, deduct, derive, infer | reason by deduction; establish by deduction. |
| ~ logical system, system of logic, logic | a system of reasoning. |
| ~ extrapolate | gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating. |
| ~ conclude, reason, reason out | decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion.; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" |
| ~ surmise | infer from incomplete evidence. |
| ~ elicit | derive by reason.; "elicit a solution" |
| v. (communication) | 2. deduce, infer | conclude by reasoning; in logic. |
| ~ conclude, reason, reason out | decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion.; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" |
| know | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. know | the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people.; "he is always in the know" |
| ~ knowing | a clear and certain mental apprehension. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. cognise, cognize, know | be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about.; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" |
| ~ keep track | keep informed of fully aware.; "I keep track of the stock market developments" |
| ~ know | be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt.; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun" |
| ~ agnise, agnize, realize, recognize, realise, recognise | be fully aware or cognizant of. |
| v. (cognition) | 3. know | know how to do or perform something.; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?" |
| ~ be on the ball, be with it, know the score, know what's going on, know what's what | be well-informed. |
| ~ master, control | have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of.; "Do you control these data?" |
| ~ get the hang, master | be or become completely proficient or skilled in.; "She mastered Japanese in less than two years" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. know | be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt.; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun" |
| ~ cognise, cognize, know | be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about.; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" |
| ~ foreknow, foresee, previse, anticipate | realize beforehand. |
| v. (cognition) | 5. know | be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object.; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily" |
| ~ know | perceive as familiar.; "I know this voice!" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. experience, know, live | have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" |
| ~ taste | experience briefly.; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died" |
| ~ live over, relive | experience again, often in the imagination.; "He relived the horrors of war" |
| ~ experience, go through, see | go or live through.; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. acknowledge, know, recognise, recognize | accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority.; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods" |
| ~ accept | consider or hold as true.; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. know | have fixed in the mind.; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?" |
| ~ have down | have (something) mastered.; "She has the names of the fifty states down pat" |
| v. (contact) | 9. bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with | have sexual intercourse with.; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
| ~ neck, make out | kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion.; "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car" |
| ~ have, take | have sex with; archaic use.; "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable" |
| ~ fornicate | have sex without being married. |
| ~ copulate, mate, couple, pair | engage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring" |
| v. (cognition) | 10. know | know the nature or character of.; "we all knew her as a big show-off" |
| ~ agnise, agnize, realize, recognize, realise, recognise | be fully aware or cognizant of. |
| v. (cognition) | 11. know | be able to distinguish, recognize as being different.; "The child knows right from wrong" |
| ~ differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell | mark as different.; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
| v. (cognition) | 12. know | perceive as familiar.; "I know this voice!" |
| ~ know | be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object.; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily" |
| ~ recall, recollect, remember, call back, call up, retrieve, think | recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" |
| negotiate | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. negociate, negotiate, talk terms | discuss the terms of an arrangement.; "They negotiated the sale of the house" |
| ~ arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate | act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" |
| ~ renegociate, renegotiate | revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor.; "We renegociated our old mortgage now that the interest rates have come down" |
| ~ hash out, talk over, discuss | speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion.; "We discussed our household budget" |
| ~ bargain, dicker | negotiate the terms of an exchange.; "We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar" |
| ~ broker | act as a broker. |
| v. (motion) | 2. negociate, negotiate | succeed in passing through, around, or over.; "The hiker negociated the high mountain pass" |
| ~ go across, pass, go through | go across or through.; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" |
| understand | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. understand | know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" |
| ~ apprehend, comprehend, get the picture, grok, savvy, grasp, compass, dig | get the meaning of something.; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" |
| ~ sense | comprehend.; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter" |
| ~ follow | grasp the meaning.; "Can you follow her argument?"; "When he lectures, I cannot follow" |
| ~ get, catch | grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of.; "did you catch that allusion?"; "We caught something of his theory in the lecture"; "don't catch your meaning"; "did you get it?"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him" |
| ~ touch | comprehend.; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem" |
| ~ translate, understand, interpret, read | make sense of a language.; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" |
| ~ read | to hear and understand.; "I read you loud and clear!" |
| ~ construe, interpret, see | make sense of; assign a meaning to.; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" |
| ~ make out | comprehend.; "I cannot make out what this politician is saying" |
| ~ figure out, puzzle out, solve, lick, work out, work | find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of.; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem" |
| ~ fathom, penetrate, bottom | come to understand. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. realise, realize, see, understand | 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" |
| ~ perceive | become conscious of.; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest" |
| ~ take account, appreciate | be fully aware of; realize fully.; "Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter?" |
| ~ envision, fancy, picture, visualize, image, figure, visualise, see, project | imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" |
| ~ see | see and understand, have a good eye.; "The artist must first learn to see" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. interpret, read, translate, understand | make sense of a language.; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" |
| ~ understand | know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. infer, understand | believe to be the case.; "I understand you have no previous experience?" |
| ~ believe | accept as true; take to be true.; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand | be understanding of.; "You don't need to explain--I understand!" |
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