Definitions for comprehend
ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛndcom·pre·hend

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehendverb

   get the meaning of something

   "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

2. perceive, comprehendverb

   to become aware of through the senses

   "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon"

3. embrace, encompass, comprehend, coververb

   include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory

   "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. comprehendverb

   to cover, include, or contain

2. comprehendverb

   to understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

3. Etymology: From comprehendere, from the prefix com-, + prehendere.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To COMPREHENDverb

   Etymology: comprehendo, Latin.

   1. To comprise; to include; to contain; to imply.

   If there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Rom. xiii. 9.

   It would be ridiculous to grow old in the study of every necessary thing, in an art which comprehends so many several parts. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

   2. To contain in the mind; to understand; to conceive.

   Rome was not better by her Quintus Horatius Flaccus taught,
   Than we are here to comprehend his thought. Edmund Waller.

   ’Tis unjust, that they who have not the least notion of heroic writing, should therefore condemn the pleasure which others receive from it, because they cannot comprehend it. Dryd.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Comprehendverb

   to contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire

2. Comprehendverb

   to take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply

3. Comprehendverb

   to take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Comprehend

   kom-pre-hend′, v.t. to seize or take up with the mind, to understand: to comprise or include.—ns. Comprehensibil′ity, Comprehen′sibleness.—adj. Comprehen′sible, capable of being understood.—adv. Comprehen′sibly.—n. Comprehen′sion, power of the mind to understand: (logic) the intension of a term or the sum of the qualities implied in the term: the inclusion of Nonconformists within the Church of England.—adj. Comprehen′sive, having the quality or power of comprehending much: extensive: full.—adv. Comprehen′sively.—n. Comprehen′siveness. [L. comprehendĕre, to seize.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. comprehend

   To understand the meaning of.

   WE did comprehend the information conveyed.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 14, 2020  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of comprehend in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of comprehend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of comprehend in a Sentence

1. Matt Wakefield:

   I mean he’s 2 years old, dustin protected him, so Elijah wasn’t injured during the incident and as far as how he’s doing, a 2-year-old doesn’t really comprehend what is happening right now.

2. Andrew Wilkinson:

   There are no barbarians at the gate at this moment. Everything seems to have calmed, volatility has come down, people seem to comprehend what the Fed is about to do and they got a greater sense of how deep the Chinese problems are.

3. Ahmed Korayem:

   In our dire need to comprehend the divine, we created it, named it, clothed it, inundated it with details so trivial and punished others who disagree with it.

4. Albert Einstein:

   To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men.

5. Marci Hamilton:

   It takes years to comprehend the trauma of child sex abuse, well into adulthood, to decide whether to move forward, what police do when they destroy rape kits, and other evidence of crimes against children before the statute of limitations has passed, is rob them of their full chance at justice.

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