Understand vs Underget - What's the difference?
understand | underget |
(lb) To be aware of the meaning of.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I understand not what you mean by this.
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:In this sense, the word is usually used in the past participle:
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*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
To stand under; to support.
:(Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To understand; perceive.
To receive; undertake; get at; find out.
*1993 , A.R. Genazzani, G. D'Ambrogi, Current Investigations in Gynecology and Obstetrics :
*1998 , John William Van Zee, T. F. Fuller, Electrochemical Society. Industrial Electrolysis and Electrochemical Engineering Division, Advances in mathematical modeling and simulation of electrochemical process :
To get less than expected or due.
*1885 , Edmund B. Ivatts, Railway management at stations :
*1923 , Charles Vickers, Metals and their alloys :
As verbs the difference between understand and underget
is that understand is (lb) to be aware of the meaning of while underget is (obsolete) to understand; perceive.understand
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Alternative forms
* understaund (obsolete)Verb
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citation, passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.
Usage notes
* Common objects of this verb include text'', ''word(s)'', ''sentence(s)'', ''note(s) , etc. * Rarely, the obsolete past tense form understanded'' may be found, e.g. in the ''Book of Common Prayer'' and ''Thirty-nine Articles of the Anglican Church .Synonyms
* (to know the meaning) apprehend, comprehend, grasp, know, perceive, pick up what someone is putting down, realise, grok * (to believe) believeAntonyms
* misunderstandDerived terms
* I don’t understand * understandable * understanding * understoodSee also
* explain * whyExternal links
* *underget
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Verb
- Before treatment all subjects underget a mammography and blood samples were taken to value hepatic funtionality, lipidic and aemocoagulative patterns.
- Data were calculated by common statistical procedure (Excel 5.0 for Windows, LINEST) and underget by Inductive Regressive Analysis (3).
- Some companies hold their clerks responsible to account for the actual amount of the fares on tickets sold, and ignore the question of overgot and undergot money.
- Those that underpay, underget .