I am not much of an authority about professional matters myself, but I know a lady who understands these things, and I'll speak to her.
But, as a financial magnate, he understands things.
I am very greatly obliged to you," she was saying, "but I hope Mr. Fowle understands now that I do not desire his company and will not seek to force it on me.
They will have no portions--every one understands that.
Between ourselves, I admit that he didn't invent gunpowder, and that his education is confined to the rules of subtraction and multiplication, which he understands perfectly.
He understands no less than seventeen foreign languages, and twelve of those he speaks with the greatest facility.
The fact is, a lawyer never understands what is and what is not fair fighting.
He quite understands that they were my own property, and that I had a right to keep them in my desk if I pleased.
Major Mackintosh quite understands that, and says that nobody can do anything to me;--only I must go to Mr. Camperdown.
Hamilton said:--'Burke understands everything but gaming and music.
You see, your mother understands your character better than all the rest," said the Cat.
If it was not for my mother, I would never come back at all; but it would break her heart if I stayed away, and she is the only one of them who understandsme and cares for me.
An engineer who understands firing in the most economical way will probably save his wages to his employer over the engineer who is indifferent or unscientific about it.
A stationary engine should have a solid foundation built by a mason who understands the business, and should be in a light, dry room--never in a dark cellar or a damp place.
We will suppose that the young engineer fully understands all parts of the boiler and engine, as explained in the preceding chapters.
He picks up a greasy rag instead of a wrench, for the engineer that understands his business and attends to it never picks up a wrench unless he has something to do with it.
He has not the power to hold it back finally, if some one understands and prays with quiet, steady persistence.
The true conceptionunderstands that prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.
She takes care of her father in that way, now that sheunderstands his need.
Women must be made glad by it, men stronger because someone understands and is brave enough to say it.
In his brief sojourn in Abbeville he had come to see the difficulty of travel in a land where no oneunderstands your questions.
And more, the nearer I come to the region beyond, the more I feel that in that land a man needs not shrink from uttering his deepest thoughts, inasmuch as he that understands them not will not therefore revile him.
Then Sadie's quite a good sort and understands Bob--perhaps better than an English girl could.
Much depends on how you charge up your costs, and one understands that doing it cleverly leads to promotion.
He is wondrously capricious to seem a judgment, and listens with a sour attention to what he understands not.
He understands things, not by their form, but qualities; and his comparisons intend not to excuse but to provoke him higher.
His obstinacy grows out of his ignorance, for probability has so many ways that whosoever understands them will not be confident of any one.
He is both cook and physician to his hounds, understands the constitutions of their bodies, and what to administer in any infirmity or disease, acute or chronic, that can befall them.
He understands in war there is no mean to err twice, the first and last fault being sufficient to ruin an army: faults, therefore, he pardons none; they that are precedents of disorder or mutiny repair it by being examples of his justice.
He cannot speak to a dog in his own dialect, and understands Greek better than the language of a falconer.
He speaks just what his books or last company said unto him, without varying one whit, and very seldom understands himself.
Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe are his patrons, whose volumes he understands not but admires, and the rather because they are strangers, and so easier to be credited than controlled.
If he understands Latin or Greek he ranks himself among the learned, despises the ignorant, talks criticisms out of Scaliger, and repeats Martial's bawdy epigrams, and sets up his rest wholly upon pedantry.
The less he understands the reason of physic the stronger faith he has in it, as it commonly fares in all other affairs of the world.
The object of admiration is usually some one outside of the home, often a favorite teacher who understands the heart of a boy and a girl.
A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
Defn: Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horseunderstands the heel well.
Defn: One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.
Defn: One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
A man is skillful in any employment when he understands both its theory and its practice.
He understands what is said to him before he talks himself, and his vocabulary for purposes of understanding always remains ahead of his speaking vocabulary.
A little later, he recognizes and understands words before he begins to speak (recall) them; and everybody's vocabulary of recognized words remains much greater than his speaking vocabulary.
She will laugh most heartily when she understands it.
Thee understands that 'twas my duty to probe the affair.
Hans must not burn Kant's house above his head Because he cannot understand Kant's book: And still less must Hans' pastor burn Kant's self Because Kant understands some books too well.
True, he makes nothing, understands no whit: Had the initiator-spasm seen fit Thus doubly to endow him, none the worse And much the better were the universe.
Think, when our one soul understands The great Word which makes all things new.
We'll go,' my husband said: 'None understands like me to melt and mould their lead.
Not one man in a thousand who understands what he is affirming will dare to claim to have an immediate vision of God, and nothing can be more likely than that the man who makes such a claim is self-deluded.
The Bishop of Lincoln, who understands how far cremation may render resurrection awkward, is the only divine capable of thoroughly resolving this problem.
He understands very well what a place of honor and what a well-proved assurance of safety distinctive Rhode Island principles have attained.
The average man he meets understands him thoroughly, sympathizes with him completely and accepts him as a leader after his own heart.
She has sized him up as a failure and knows herself doomed to struggle against poverty, and he knows that she understands him.
One might go on indefinitely, including such matters as whether he seeks superiority with tact or the reverse and whether he understands the essential shallowness and futility of his pursuit or not.
Irene quite understandswhat I mean," said I, with the valour of the entirely desperate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "understands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
