理解 — meaning in English

English meaning

• appreciate verb To be grateful for something.
• apprehend verb To arrest someone, especially a suspected criminal.
• catch verb To capture or seize something moving, such as a ball or a fleeing person.
• comprehend verb To understand something fully.
• comprehension noun The ability to understand something, or the act of understanding it.
• incomprehensible adj So confusing or badly explained that it cannot be understood.
• reception noun A formal social event, often to welcome or honor someone.
• see verb To perceive something with the eyes.
• understand verb To grasp the meaning of something.
• understanding noun The mental grasp of what something means or how it works.

Senses

理解 is used for these senses in English:

• appreciate (transitive) To be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.
• apprehend To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
• catch (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. [from 16thc.]
• comprehend (transitive) To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb. [from 14th c.]
• comprehension A thorough understanding.
• incomprehensible Impossible or very difficult to understand.
• reception (linguistics) Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.
• see (figuratively) To understand.

appreciate — full definition

1. verb To be grateful for something.
2. verb To understand and value the true quality, meaning, or importance of something.
3. verb (of an asset) To increase in value over time.

apprehend — full definition

1. verb To arrest someone, especially a suspected criminal.
2. verb To understand or grasp something mentally.
3. verb To anticipate something, usually with worry or fear.

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