What is the difference between understand and relate?
understand | relate |
(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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, chapter=Foreword 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)
To tell in a descriptive way.
To give an association.
To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
* 2002 , Paul Light, Karen Littleton, Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions (page 92)
To have a connection.
To interact.
To respond through reaction.
To identify with, understand.
(obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
* Spenser
In transitive terms the difference between understand and relate
is that understand is to be aware of the meaning of while relate is to make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.understand
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Alternative forms
* understaund (obsolete)Verb
Sam Leith
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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
* *relate
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Verb
(relat)- The use of video made it possible to relate' the talk to the answers given to particular problems in the test. With this research design it was possible to ' relate changes in test score measures to changes in linguistic features
- I find it difficult to relate to others because i'm extremely introverted .
- Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again / Both light of heaven and strength of men relate .