English English Dictionary

understanding in English:

1. sympathetic

A good doctor is sympathetic to his patients.

Empathetic and sympathetic are similar words, but they’re not the same. While being empathetic means putting yourself easily and completely in another person’s shoes, being sympathetic means showing concern for someone when something bad happens to them.

You should talk to Kerry - she's very sympathetic.

She is very sympathetic.

I'm sympathetic to parents who are worried about what their children see on television.

You'd think his children would be more sympathetic TOWARDS him after all he's gone through.

He's sympathetic to our plan.

She tried to use a sympathetic tone of voice.

The police officers were sympathetic but couldn't do anything.

He suffers from back trouble too, so he was very sympathetic about my problem.

I am sympathetic with people in Syria.

she was sympathetic towards staff with family problems / he spoke in a sympathetic tone / buildings that were sympathetic to their surroundings

The local police said they were always sympathetic to acts of goods citizenship.

Troy was sympathetic and pleasant, but he wasn't a good friend when he really mattered.

Technically, drugs that cause miosis can relieve the PNS effects of those causing mydriasis since sympathetic and parasympathetic stimulation tend to negate each others' effects.

2. understand

I understand.

I don't understand and I'm not used to not understanding. Please explain it once more.

Where is there a drugstore where they understand English?

It is easier to write a bad poem than to understand a good one.

The more I think about it, the less I understand it.

What I don't understand is why Tom didn't stick around and help us.

I understand the general approach, but I'm afraid that I'm getting bogged down in the details.

Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.

A person with average intelligence would understand that.

I could understand the first few sentences, but the rest of his speech was all Greek to me.

The most essential thing in the world to any individual is to understand himself.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

You may not learn to speak as well as a native speaker, but you should be able to speak well enough that native speakers will understand what you have to say.

How much of what I've written here do you understand?

I understand you are going to spend your vacation in New Zealand.

English word "understanding"(understand) occurs in sets:

SŁOWOTWÓRSTWO czasowniki -> rzeczowniki

3. stand

Stand up!

When I was a kid, touching bugs didn't bother me a bit. Now I can hardly stand looking at pictures of them.

I think we’ll have to find out where the marketing department stands on this particular issue, before we make any more decisions.

The defendant was about to stand trial when he grabbed the deputy's gun and shot the judge.

I sometimes wish I could live a quiet retired sort of life but I doubt I could stand it for more than a few days.

You worry about yourself. If you put your back out and can't stand we'll go home without you!

That was another impressive fall-flat-on-your-face ... Hey, you alright, Sophie? Can you stand?

Someday someone will stand on the Martian landscape and take a picture of Earth in the night sky.

A customer is having his shoes shined on a slapped-together stand.

It was good to feel like one of the group, because my blond hair and 185 cm height already made me stand out.

The ice cream vendor is waiting on customers at his outdoor stand.

Advantaging myself over the competition is the only way I can ensure my evaporated yogurt water stand will be here tomorrow.

Could you tell me how to refer to the podium for an awards ceremony? The "winner's stand"?

If you paint it yellow, you'll kill two birds with one stone: it'll stand out, and you'll save money because you can use paint you already have.

Two books stand out among the dozens recently published on the Royal Family.

English word "understanding"(stand) occurs in sets:

Word Formation (Year 3)

4. having ability to understand something

5. comprehension

This is a comprehension test, don't worry about grammar.

Each chapter in the textbook is followed by about a dozen comprehension questions.

listening comprehension

He nodded slowly in comprehension.

There's a global problem of comprehension.

Everyone who uses Esperanto or works for it, is an Esperantist, and every Esperantist has the complete right, in Esperanto, to see only the language as a simple, cold tool for international comprehension.

Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of matters divine and human, and the comprehension of what is just and what is unjust.

There will be an oral comprehension in this exam.

In our group we have poor comprehension of the term "sharing".

But such comprehension was of no use to him now

How anyone could be so cruel is beyond my comprehension (= I can't understand it).

It's beyond my comprehension (= I can't understand) how anyone could be so cruel.

The effect of his disorder is that he is unable to understand feelings of other people. Empathy is for him meaningless and abstract. Therefore being sarcastic or using metaphors are form him beyond comprehension.

I want to improve my comprehension skills.

If the more advanced want to improve English ability (especially reading comprehension) increasing vocabulary is the way to go.