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Advised vs Understanding - What's the difference?

advised | understanding |

As adjectives the difference between advised and understanding

is that advised is considered or thought out; resulting from deliberation while understanding is showing compassion.

As verbs the difference between advised and understanding

is that advised is (advise) while understanding is .

As a noun understanding is

(uncountable) mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.

advised

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Considered or thought out; resulting from deliberation.
  • Informed, appraised or made aware.
  • Usage notes

    In the sense of considered or thought out, the word (advised) is often used in combinations such as (well-advised) or (ill-advised).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (advise)
  • understanding

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.
  • (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
  • (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
  • (countable) An informal contract, mutual agreement.
  • (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
  • (uncountable) Sympathy.
  • All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
  • See also

    * intellection

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing compassion.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}