Understand vs Upstand - What's the difference?
understand | upstand |
(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)
To stand up; arise; be erect; rise.
*1820 , Homer, William Cowper, The Iliad of Homer: translated into English blank verse, with notes :
*1912 , United States. Patent Office, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office: Volume 174 :
*2010 , Lonnie R. Sherrod, Judith Torney-Purta, Constance A. Flanagan, Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement in Youth :
(construction, plumbing) A section of a roof covering or flashing which turns up against a vertical surface.
As verbs the difference between understand and upstand
is that understand is (lb) to be aware of the meaning of while upstand is to stand up; arise; be erect; rise.As a noun upstand is
(construction|plumbing) a section of a roof covering or flashing which turns up against a vertical surface.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
* *upstand
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Verb
- At once, upstood' the monarch, and ' upstood The wise Ulysses.
- The combination with a closet seat, of a flexible mat having sockets, plates secured upon the seat and having recesses, and a standard pivoted upon each plate and fold- able to lie in the respective socket or to upstand from the seat ,
- Put differently, attention to norms and rules did not increase the likelihood that a student would choose to upstand' or intervene. Students who were more likely to recommend direct support for the victim (choosing to ' upstand ), however ,