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Understand vs Beknow - What's the difference?

understand | beknow |

As verbs the difference between understand and beknow

is that understand is (lb) to be aware of the meaning of while beknow is to know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.

understand

English

Alternative forms

* understaund (obsolete)

Verb

  • (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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    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}
  • To believe, based on information.
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  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword 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.
  • To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
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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)

    • 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) believe

    Antonyms

    * misunderstand

    Derived terms

    * I don’t understand * understandable * understanding * understood

    See also

    * explain * why

    External links

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    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words English irregular verbs English words prefixed with under-

    beknow

    English

    Verb

  • To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.
  • *1856 , Homer, Francis William Newman, The Illiad of Homer :
    • At length Alkimedon, his friend and comrade, right beknew it; [...]
  • *1859 , United States Congress, Congressional edition - Page 354 :
    • Do not think my reverend father that I am beknowing to all the affairs of the savages, there is a great deal wanting: they come to us about the affairs of their conscience, but as to the rest they consult us but little.
  • *1888 , The Argosy: Volume 46:
    • [...] when I went bolt into his dressing-room, not beknowing he was in it — why it is not likely, sir, that he comes again.
  • *1922 , Walter De la Mare, Down-adown-derry: a book of fairy poems :
    • Know I as soon as dark's dreams begin Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin; Never from terror I out may win; So dawn and dusk I pine, peak, thin, Scarcely beknowing t'other from which—My great grandam—She was a Witch.
  • To acknowledge; own; confess.
  • *1831 , Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The poetical works of Sir Thomas Wyatt :
    • For unto Thee no number can be laid For to prescribe remissions of offence In hearts returned, as thou thyself hast said; And I beknow my fault, my negligence: [...]

    Derived terms

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