Knowledge vs. Understanding

Knowledgenoun

The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.

Knowledgenoun

Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

Knowledgenoun

Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

Knowledgenoun

Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

Knowledgenoun

(philosophical) Justified true belief

Knowledgenoun

Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).

Knowledgenoun

(obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.

Knowledgenoun

The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.

Knowledgenoun

(countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.

Knowledgenoun

(obsolete) Acknowledgement.

Knowledgenoun

(obsolete) Notice, awareness.

Knowledgenoun

The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.

Knowledgeverb

(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.

Knowledgenoun

The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

Knowledgenoun

That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; - chiefly used in the plural.

Knowledgenoun

That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.

Knowledgenoun

That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.

Knowledgenoun

Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.

Knowledgenoun

Sexual intercourse; - usually preceded by carnal; same as carnal knowledge.

Knowledgeverb

To acknowledge.

Knowledgenoun

the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Knowledgenoun

facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject

Knowledgenoun

the sum of what is known

Knowledgenoun

information held on a computer system.

Knowledgenoun

true, justified belief; certain understanding, as opposed to opinion.

Knowledgenoun

awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation

Knowledgenoun

sexual intercourse.

Knowledge

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts (descriptive knowledge), skills (procedural knowledge), or objects (acquaintance knowledge). By most accounts, knowledge can be acquired in many different ways and from many sources, including but not limited to perception, reason, memory, testimony, scientific inquiry, education, and practice.

Understandingnoun

(uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.

Understandingnoun

(countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.

Understandingnoun

(countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.

Understandingnoun

(countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.

Understandingnoun

(countable) A reconciliation of differences.

Understandingnoun

(uncountable) Sympathy.

Understandingadjective

Showing compassion.

Understandingadjective

(dated) Knowing; skilful.

Understandingverb

present participle of understand

Understandingadjective

Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

Understandingnoun

The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

Understandingnoun

An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.

Understandingnoun

The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.

Understandingnoun

Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.

Understandingnoun

the cognitive condition of someone who understands;

Understandingnoun

the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;

Understandingnoun

an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion;

Understandingnoun

the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;

Understandingadjective

characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy;

Understanding

Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to use concepts to model that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding.