Understanding vs Concord - What's the difference?
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(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= (countable) An informal contract, mutual agreement.
(countable) A reconciliation of differences.
(uncountable) Sympathy.
All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A state of agreement; harmony; union.
* Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. -
(obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league
* The concord made between Henry and Roderick. -
(grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
(legal, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.
(probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
Understanding is a related term of concord.
As a noun understanding
is (uncountable) mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.As an adjective understanding
is showing compassion.As a verb understanding
is .As a proper noun concord is
the state capital of new hampshire.understanding
English
(wikipedia understanding)Noun
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.}}
See also
* intellectionVerb
(head)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.}}
concord
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) concorde'', Latin ''concordia'', from . See heart, and compare accordNoun
(en noun)- (Burrill)