UNDERSTOOD


Meaning of UNDERSTOOD in English

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

easily understood/identified etc

It’s easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.

little known/understood etc (= not known about by many people )

a little known corner of the world

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be understood (that)

From childhood, it was understood your parents would choose your husband.

As such they have to be understood with nuances of influence and control often benign but sometimes narrow in focus.

Briefly, as we shall devote a section to each below, these categories are understood in the following way.

He is understood to be on police bail after his arrest on Tuesday.

It is understood that a number of applications for advance clearance under s 707 for such arrangements have been refused.

The first meaning should be understood as the inspiration which has urged the choreographer to create.

The gifts will rather be understood from the point of view of the sinful self that seeks only self-gratification and status.

The less that was known about the political officer's activities, the less was understood about his responsibility for events.

The notion of transparent reporting which can be understood by the untutored layman is a chimera.

make yourself heard/understood/known etc

As we will soon see, the inability to make oneself understood properly was at the root of the crisis in Vicos.

But only one side was making itself heard.

Hardly a practicable solution when she didn't even know if she could make herself understood.

He makes himself known with a tiny, metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes.

I yelled to make myself heard above the deafening roar of the wind and the sea.

To leave was to admit defeat in this peculiar ritual of making myself known.

Yet lay people had almost no way of making themselves heard in Rome.

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