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may have a good ability to predict the behavior of an object, animal or system—and therefore may, in some sense, understand it—without necessarily being...

ability to speak and be understood, and 2) an ability to listen and understand. Individuals with strong language power possess the ability to communicate...

and physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel (/freɪˈnɛl/) who was the first to understand that light is a transverse wave, when no one realized that the waves...

empathetic listening to genuinely understand a person, which compels them to reciprocate the listening and take an open mind to be influenced. This creates...

steps: first, seeking to understand a speaker's idea, then, offering the idea back to the speaker to confirm the idea has been understood correctly. Reflective...

machine out of his desire to understand it. The computer coincidentally had a central processing unit (MOS 6502) similar to the one used by Nintendo for...

faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include language, perception, memory, attention, reasoning, and emotion; to understand these faculties, cognitive...

you may understand") to relate faith and reason. Augustine understood the saying to mean that a person must believe in something in order to know anything...

took tact to explain, in language that an 85-year-old could understand, what “date rape” meant. “I did the best I could to make her understand,” Lewis said...

prefixed verbs are conjugated identically to the corresponding basic verbs; e.g. understand–understood–understood and become–became–become, following the...

readability tests are readability tests designed to indicate how difficult a passage in English is to understand. There are two tests: the Flesch Reading-Ease...

function can be understood as the internal manipulation of symbols Cognitivism (aesthetics), a view that cognitive psychology can help understand art and the...

peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. For example, an English speaker would understand the...

"strobe light" effect. To understand why multiple return strokes utilize the same lightning channel, one needs to understand the behavior of positive...

word "lame". A lamer is sometimes understood to be the antithesis of a hacker. While a hacker strives to understand the mechanisms behind what they use...

Greek to me or it's (all) Greek to me is an idiom in English referring to material that the speaker finds difficult or impossible to understand. It is...

A Woman Who Understood is a 1920 American silent drama film, directed by William Parke, distributed by Robertson-Cole, and starring Bessie Barriscale....

the numbers meant: What they had to do was work on IBM machines – punching holes, numbers that they didn't understand. Nobody told them what it was. The...

for communicating ideas in industry and engineering. To make the drawings easier to understand, people use familiar symbols, perspectives, units of measurement...

materialism, arguing that mental states as conventionally understood do exist, and directly correspond to the physical state of the nervous system. An intermediate...