Believe vs. Understand
Believeverb
(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
Believeverb
(transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
Believeverb
(intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
Believeverb
To consider likely
Believeverb
To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.
Believeverb
To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.
Believeverb
To think; to suppose.
Believeverb
accept as true; take to be true;
Believeverb
judge or regard; look upon; judge;
Believeverb
be confident about something;
Believeverb
follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer;
Believeverb
credit with veracity;
Believeverb
accept that (something) is true, especially without proof
Believeverb
accept the statement of (someone) as true
Believeverb
have religious faith
Believeverb
feel sure that (someone) is capable of doing something
Believeverb
hold (something) as an opinion; think
Understandverb
(transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
Understandverb
To believe, based on information.
Understandverb
To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
Understandverb
To stand under; to support.
Understandverb
One who supports others in such performances as the human pyramid.
Understandverb
To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
Understandverb
To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
Understandverb
To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
Understandverb
To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
Understandverb
To stand under; to support.
Understandverb
To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
Understandverb
To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
Understandverb
know and comprehend the nature or meaning of;
Understandverb
perceive (an idea or situation) mentally;
Understandverb
make sense of a language;
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believe to be the case;
Understandverb
be understanding of;
Understandverb
perceive the intended meaning of (words, a language, or a speaker)
Understandverb
perceive the significance, explanation, or cause of
Understandverb
interpret or view (something) in a particular way
Understandverb
infer something from information received (often used as a polite formula in conversation)
Understandverb
regard (a missing word, phrase, or idea) as present
Understandverb
be sympathetically or knowledgeably aware of the character or nature of
