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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
understanding
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
depth of knowledge/understanding/experience
▪ I was impressed by the depth of her knowledge.
enlarge sb’s understanding/knowledge etc
▪ A good way to enlarge your vocabulary is to read a daily newspaper.
gain an understanding (=get knowledge based on learning and experience)
▪ Drama is one of the key ways in which children can gain an understanding of themselves and of others.
mutual respect/trust/understanding etc
▪ Mutual respect is necessary for any partnership to work.
▪ European nations can live together in a spirit of mutual trust.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
▪ They attend sporadically, and their basic understanding of history is usually sketchy.
▪ Different aspects of basic understanding are needed in different areas of the world.
▪ The first and third years of the course provide a basic understanding of the industry.
▪ This distinction is basic to an understanding of what was revolutionary in the Copernican achievement.
▪ It is important to have some clear basic understanding of the nature of bereavement and the grief that follows it.
clear
▪ It is important to have a clear understanding of the impact of legal aid on tribunal representation.
▪ Is there a clear understanding of joint and individual areas of responsibility of headteacher and governors?
▪ Though they stand well apart, there is an intimacy of clear understanding.
▪ This requires a clear understanding of the cellular and biochemical process of wound healing and the mechanisms of individual types of injury.
▪ Equally, it is important that a searcher should have a clear understanding of indexing methods.
▪ A clear understanding of the task by the partner and/or manager is a prerequisite for good communication.
▪ Vital to such decisions is a clear understanding of system functions, failure modes and the consequences of failure.
▪ Meanwhile parents like Gwen Watkins just want their voice to be heard and a clearer understanding of a tragic chain of deaths.
deep
▪ We should look with deep understanding and compassion upon those whose relationships have failed or are in danger of failing.
▪ Facilities such as these will allow the engineer to possibly gain deeper systems understanding and through this obtain greater diagnostic certainty.
▪ A deeper understanding of the function of leys might emerge if they could be seen in ritual terms.
▪ In this way a deeper understanding should result.
▪ It was in this particular field of difficulty that Balanchine sometimes showed his deep understanding.
▪ He handled superbly and with deep understanding, that basic interrelation of landscape and its prevailing climatic conditions.
▪ If successful, it will produce a deeper understanding of the human face recognition system.
▪ Measurement provides a deeper understanding of variation, and the observation of variation gives a reason to measure.
full
▪ Only a life history approach can allow us to follow these threads to a fuller understanding of each person's singular present.
▪ Co-direction ensures that administrative decisions are made with the full understanding of the implications for all participants.
▪ It provides a basis of fuller understanding of allusion, implication and inference.
▪ His brown eyes were full of understanding, and something else she didn't recognise.
▪ We are presenting a view only that educational effects can not be interpreted without a full understanding of sign language.
▪ A full understanding of differences in model properties requires detailed analysis of particular model equations or groups of equations.
▪ So, now that we know what both of these terms entail, I can continue with your full understanding.
▪ She acquiesced with a full understanding of his reserve, and with no lessening in her dedication to his pleasure.
general
▪ A general lack of understanding of factor analysis, however, weakened the impact of the study and its effect was minimal.
▪ This would accord with the general understanding of the word objective, i.e. independent of the observer.
great
▪ But Barney was a character, a horse of wisdom, fortitude and great understanding.
▪ A campaigning approach is needed to seek better resources and develop greater understanding.
▪ This assumption arose from greater understanding of the complex causes of poverty, but this remained incomplete.
▪ Creating a greater understanding of what the school is about?
▪ The playing here was fluently lyrical and of great understanding.
▪ This increased public concern has highlighted the need for greater information and understanding of these issues.
▪ The trouble is, this does not necessarily lead to greater understanding of why something represents good practice.
mutual
▪ And DeVore, hearing it, had felt he had used it like some secret password; some token of mutual understanding.
▪ By tacit, mutual understanding they returned to the school separately.
▪ It is establishing and keeping up mutual understanding between an organisation and the people it wants to reach.
▪ The programme of the same name will promote growth in mutual understanding and cross community awareness between Protestant and Catholic communities.
▪ Both stressed in particular the importance of the informal Camp David meetings in strengthening mutual understanding and trust.
▪ It must also ensure a mutual understanding of each others needs should such an act, or similar, occur.
▪ There was no farewell kiss, merely a nod of mutual understanding.
proper
▪ He may find himself liable for taxes that proper understanding would have enabled him to avoid.
▪ A proper understanding of the role of intention in trusts must therefore come from other texts.
▪ It is the proper understanding of this relationship and the nature and application of energy that is crucial to scientific cleaning.
▪ A proper understanding of some one's way of life and their special needs may take time.
▪ A proper understanding of this aspect will allow you to create your own ideas much more easily and effectively.
▪ A proper understanding of the history of the surface of the Earth is not the least of them.
▪ It is unfortunate that the authors avoid mathematical formulae which are essential for a proper understanding of the experiments.
real
▪ Both counsellors and clients need to have a real understanding of what constitutes counselling. 4.
▪ This reciprocal position did not make for sincerity and real understanding.
▪ The origin of the bullets is obscure and a real understanding of their energetics is needed to pin it down.
▪ It seems to have been based on real understanding, but little real intimacy.
▪ Had he grasped this shard of hope with any real understanding, she wondered?
▪ We have, however, no more real understanding of this ability than we do of cohesion.
▪ This is the only way in which indoctrination can be avoided and any real understanding of religion conveyed.
▪ Even worse - far worse - I was not I. The terror of wonderment, real understanding, had changed all.
sufficient
▪ The Children Act places great emphasis on the child's right to make decisions where he has sufficient understanding to do so.
▪ Where the child has sufficient understanding the court may want to know his or her likely response to the proposed direction.
▪ If the child is of sufficient understanding his views should not simply be disregarded because it is difficult to ascertain them.
▪ At field level, this implies a sufficient understanding of the contribution which different parties can make.
▪ A child with sufficient understanding to give instructions may select his own solicitor.
▪ It also follows from this that understanding consciousness would not be sufficient for understanding mental processes.
▪ It is a matter of fact in each case whether a child has sufficient understanding to make certain decisions or take certain actions.
▪ The House of Lords ruled that she could, provided she had sufficient understanding.
thorough
▪ One that balances leading edge technological capability with a thorough understanding of your business.
▪ Successful practice requires a thorough understanding of how a shift from practical to verbal consciousness occurs and may be facilitated.
▪ Moreover, a thorough understanding of the uses of technology may demand more or less understanding of theoretical science.
▪ To gain a thorough understanding of the concepts presented, the reader is referred to the bibliography.
▪ It has the added value of being firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of technique.
▪ Finally, a thorough understanding of the characteristics and potential of all the channels available is essential for good communication.
▪ The intention here is to provide prospective teachers with a thorough understanding of language as a phenomenon in an educational context.
▪ However, these proposals are not based currently on thorough understanding of the consequences.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ The aim is to achieve a sharper understanding of what is involved in logical ability.
▪ They were his chosen weapons to achieve an understanding with the enemies of Allah.
▪ Marx himself did, however, leave some basic clues as to how we might achieve this kind of understanding of the state.
▪ Until a child has achieved that understanding, a numeral is just a shape with no real meaning.
▪ This can be achieved by understanding more about what is going on.
▪ Perhaps, now that the air had been cleared between them, they might be able to achieve a state of understanding.
▪ But do we achieve any understanding of what their two different Gods are like from this conflict?
contribute
▪ The study provides data on the social cognition of parent-adolescent interaction and contributes to our understanding of the development of moral judgements.
▪ Nevertheless, Bakker has contributed enormously to our understanding of dinosaur biology.
▪ In all of these areas, there are concepts and insights from linguistics which can contribute to pedagogical understanding.
▪ The research is designed to contribute to the understanding of problem drinking among teenagers.
▪ The project aims to contribute to increasing understanding of industrial relations in the public sector.
▪ The work will also contribute to a theoretical understanding of survival strategies and the dynamics of decision-making in conditions of forced migration.
▪ The research will contribute towards our further understanding of the relationship between the media and the policy process.
develop
▪ The immediate aims are to develop theoretical understanding, suggest research priorities and contribute to thinking about relevant public policies.
▪ Programming is the context used to develop an understanding of many aspects of the application of computers.
▪ To develop an understanding of the psychological aspects of nursing care. 4.
▪ To develop an understanding of the principles of therapeutic diets. 5.
▪ A campaigning approach is needed to seek better resources and develop greater understanding.
▪ Pupils should develop an understanding of heritage, change and continuity, and cause and effect.
▪ I am pleased to report that I believe the various committees are working in unison to further develop the understanding between them.
▪ A closely related objective is to develop children's understanding of the different ways in which meanings are conveyed.
gain
▪ The social scientist gains an understanding of the meaning of action through living with the group which he wants to understand.
▪ From what has already been said it is possible to gain a rough understanding of the second and third of these claims.
▪ The principal aim of this exploratory research is to gain a better understanding of franchising and the franchising decision.
▪ Facilities such as these will allow the engineer to possibly gain deeper systems understanding and through this obtain greater diagnostic certainty.
▪ Self-assessment Building self-esteem is about appreciating strengths and developing them as much as it is about gaining an understanding of weaknesses.
▪ To gain a thorough understanding of the concepts presented, the reader is referred to the bibliography.
▪ To gain a richer understanding of the problem of holism we must therefore distinguish it from the problem of determinism.
▪ To begin with, it is important to gain a good understanding of the meaning of these aggregates.
help
▪ Certainly psychoanalytic theory helps understanding of some actions of people in pre-literate societies, or of children and neurotics in Western societies.
▪ These ideas from psychotherapy help our background understanding of emotional experiences in the later part of the life-cycle.
▪ Accompanying practical nursing experiences in community and hospitals helps to elaborate understanding and develop nursing skills.
▪ Totem and Taboo does not just help our understanding of totemism.
▪ They can all help us in understanding conduct which seems to degrade humanity.
▪ There should always be a willingness to help and an understanding of the guests' anxieties and problems.
improve
▪ SeaWatch encompasses all our environmental projects and was formed to improve everyone's understanding and respect for the seas.
▪ Your teacher's comments on the essay will help improve your knowledge and understanding.
▪ Initiatives to improve understanding of the burden of ill health due to asthma would be welcome.
▪ The Project has three aims designed to improve our knowledge and understanding of the business community.
▪ Science exists so that we can improve our understanding of naturally occurring phenomena.
▪ Observing and improving our understanding of dominant forcing functions; 3.
▪ To do this effectively we may need to construct typologies and identify patterns that improve our understanding of the problem.
increase
▪ Even though Piaget was concerned with development and Kelly with personality the comparison increases our understanding of both.
▪ Pupils, especially, might increase their understanding of how they learn.
▪ Because of this they have the potential for increasing self-awareness and deepening understanding both of the judgments made and the objects construed.
▪ The project aims to contribute to increasing understanding of industrial relations in the public sector.
▪ Remember that you are reading not only for historical information but also to increase your historical understanding.
▪ Cumulative contributions by successive generations of researchers create an increased and increasing understanding.
▪ She will be involved in fundraising and increasing understanding of a growing problem.
▪ This is a crucial part of your analytical reading and a fundamental way of increasing your historical understanding.
lead
▪ Sometimes different people have conflicting frames of reference that can lead to problems of understanding.
▪ Full discussion will lead to a better understanding of the patient.
▪ Thus the same metaphor can lead to diametrically opposite understandings.
▪ X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic techniques continue to provide important clues, leading towards an understanding of the remarkable specificity of enzymatic catalysis.
▪ This leads to a different understanding of all areas of disabled people's lives, the arts included.
▪ The trouble is, this does not necessarily lead to greater understanding of why something represents good practice.
▪ The Art Department leads pupils to an understanding of the language of the artist and designer through practical work.
need
▪ It wasn't as if she wanted or needed his complete understanding.
▪ Above all, they will need your loving understanding and support for some time to come.
▪ I do not need your understanding, or your damned sorrow!
▪ Consequently, all engineers need to acquire an understanding of the law and its relevance to risk issues.
▪ Practitioners need a clear understanding of the processes by which social inequalities of various forms are derived from prejudicial and stereotypical attitudes.
▪ However, the firm selling overseas needs an understanding of why they behave in that way.
promote
▪ Will it do anything to promote peace, international understanding and progress?
▪ The greatest challenge is public education in order to reduce fear and to promote a better understanding of the aims of services.
▪ The programme of the same name will promote growth in mutual understanding and cross community awareness between Protestant and Catholic communities.
▪ How can we use classroom dialogue to promote genuine learning and understanding?
▪ Its aim was to promote peace and international understanding through education.
▪ The Clyde report on the Orkney affair contains recommendations about promoting an understanding of social work's role in communities.
▪ The couple aim to promote greater understanding of meningitis by circulating information to health professionals and the public.
provide
▪ Measurement provides a deeper understanding of variation, and the observation of variation gives a reason to measure.
▪ To most analysts, the way in which Congressional committees operate provides the key to understanding maps such as those displayed here.
▪ The first and third years of the course provide a basic understanding of the industry.
▪ In one sense it is a simplification, but also it is a clarification which is intended to provide understanding and prediction.
▪ Cells thus provide the key to understanding development because their behaviour brings about embryonic development and is controlled by gene activity.
▪ An opportunity must be provided for understanding - to relate new facts to existing knowledge.
▪ Financial analysis of this type could assist considerably in providing a preliminary understanding of strategic requirements within an industry.
▪ It will provide information and understanding of decisions concerning applied research, an area not previously studied in detail.
reach
▪ Dear Moira, he wrote, we will have to reach an understanding.
▪ We can not reach an understanding of these divisions if we are constantly denied the alternative perspectives.
▪ Can we reach our destination of understanding of religion that way?
▪ It will also look at the ways in which these explanations can help us reach an understanding of inequality in higher education.
▪ It took a long time for us to reach an understanding.
require
▪ There are areas of particular importance which require extra knowledge and understanding from the start.
▪ Term Structure of Interest Rates Effective management of financing sources requires an understanding of the relationship between short-term and long-term interest rates.
▪ Successful practice requires a thorough understanding of how a shift from practical to verbal consciousness occurs and may be facilitated.
▪ The issues discussed should make demands on members, require understanding, discussion of the panacea, introduce, inform, involve.
▪ All aspects of flying require this combination of understanding and self-discipline, and the vital actions make a good starting point.
▪ Even the accusation that the Anonymous Fellowships require a religious understanding and belief is unfounded.
▪ This requires a clear understanding of the cellular and biochemical process of wound healing and the mechanisms of individual types of injury.
▪ Some of the concepts and procedures described are quite complicated and require an understanding of file structures.
show
▪ It's also to do with using your own past experiences to show empathy and understanding when others need it.
▪ That a gentleman should do it showed an uncommon understanding of the difficulties involved in running businesses with too much debt outstanding.
▪ The press also showed an encouraging understanding of our mission to establish ourselves as a world-class scientific and engineering services business.
▪ Five-year-olds did not show much understanding of the deductive/empirical distinction at all, even in the deductive marking experiment.
▪ His speculations show his understanding of the need for bold hypotheses and theories.
▪ It was in this particular field of difficulty that Balanchine sometimes showed his deep understanding.
▪ Some showed a deep understanding of doggy psychology.
▪ An initial study showed that children's understanding of emotion changes considerably between 6 and 11 years.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gain an understanding/insight/impression etc
▪ By analysing simple situations, with essential features in common, we can gain insight into the behaviour of these complicated beams.
▪ It is difficult to see how avoiding teaching about what is distinctive of religion can help people gain an understanding of it!
▪ One way to gain insight into these issues is to view them through the work of some of the main protagonists.
▪ Pupils use drama to gain insights into moral and social issues in works of literature.
▪ Self-assessment Building self-esteem is about appreciating strengths and developing them as much as it is about gaining an understanding of weaknesses.
▪ The trust wants to gain an insight into the county's butterfly population.
▪ This guidance helped them gain insight into the characteristics that inhibited their own ability to persist and to complete schoolwork.
▪ To visit them is to gain an insight into what many of our own wetlands must have been like.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A much greater level of understanding is required to carry out more complex experiments.
▪ Adams and the police have an understanding -- he gives them information and they don't ask any questions about his activities.
▪ Demonstrate your empathy and understanding of your children's problems.
▪ He seems to have very little understanding of economics.
▪ It was an unspoken understanding between Stu and me that I was going to be a lawyer and he was going to be an engineer.
▪ Mutual understanding is important in all relationships.
▪ That was not my understanding of the regulations, and I resent your accusation that I failed to follow them correctly.
▪ The book gave me an understanding of what it must be like to be addicted to drugs.
▪ The research may lead to a better understanding of how the disease develops.
▪ There seems to be a lack of understanding on the part of managers when it comes to employees' personal problems.
▪ We came to an understanding that I would find a job and my husband would stay home with the baby.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At field level, this implies a sufficient understanding of the contribution which different parties can make.
▪ Creating a greater understanding of what the school is about?
▪ Marryat's readers would bring at least some associations and some understanding to this piece of special pleading.
▪ The training had been successful, he said, in bringing about alignment of different skills and improving business understanding.
▪ This is the only way in which indoctrination can be avoided and any real understanding of religion conveyed.
▪ Too often all that is at fault is the observer's understanding of what other people's statements and actions mean.
▪ We didn't have any understanding of the business colleges.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He's funny, energetic, understanding, and a great teacher.
▪ I'm sorry I've been so bad-tempered lately. Anyway, thank you for being so understanding.
▪ Irene often has to take time off work. Fortunately she has a very understanding boss.
▪ Matt is a very understanding guy.
▪ My parents were wonderfully understanding throughout my divorce.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He would have been very understanding and would have helped us to find the right specialist.
▪ In the first place, the rhetorical perspective advocates understanding attitudes in terms of the wider social context.
▪ Now I don't call that being very understanding, do you?
▪ The bank was usually very understanding, and generally gave us some leeway until we were able to sell something.
▪ They rate themselves as very understanding and believe that women also value shyness.
▪ What it is to have an understanding wife!
▪ Your local drug project may be able to put you in touch with an understanding dentist or specialist dental clinic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Understanding

Understand \Un`der*stand"\ ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Understood (([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[oo^]d"),), and Archaic Understanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Understanding.] [OE. understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is not clear. See Under, and Stand.]

  1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.

    Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time, I you pray, That we may understande what ye say.
    --Chaucer.

    I understand not what you mean by this.
    --Shak.

    Understood not all was but a show.
    --Milton.

    A tongue not understanded of the people.
    --Bk. of Com. Prayer.

  2. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.

  3. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.

    The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
    --Locke.

  4. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.

    War, then, war, Open or understood, must be resolved.
    --Milton.

  5. To stand under; to support. [Jocose & R.]
    --Shak.

    To give one to understand, to cause one to know.

    To make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear.

Understanding

Understanding \Un`der*stand"ing\ ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"[i^]ng), a. Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

Understanding

Understanding \Un`der*stand"ing\, n.

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

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

    He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people.
    --Clarendon.

  3. 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. But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. --Job xxxii. 8. The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts:

    1. The perception of ideas in our mind;

    2. The perception of the signification of signs;

    3. The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. All these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand.
      --Locke.

      In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension.
      --Coleridge.

  4. 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.

    I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which ``verstand'' is now employed by the Germans.
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

    Syn: Sense; intelligence; perception. See Sense.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
understanding

Old English understanding "comprehension," verbal noun from understand (v.). Meaning "mutual agreement" is attested from 1803.

Wiktionary
understanding

  1. Showing compassion. n. 1 (context uncountable English) mental, sometimes emotional '''process''' of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature. 2 (context countable English) reason or intelligence, '''ability''' to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer. 3 (context countable English) opinion, judgement or outlook. v

  2. (present participle of understand English)

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WordNet
understanding

adj. characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; "an understanding friend"

understanding

  1. n. the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" [syn: apprehension, discernment, savvy]

  2. the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers" [syn: agreement]

  3. an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding" [syn: sympathy]

  4. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" [syn: reason, intellect]

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Wikipedia
Understanding

Understanding (also called intellection) is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge sufficient to support intelligent behavior.

An understanding is the limit of a conceptualization. To understand something is to have conceptualized it to a given measure.

Understanding (song)

"Understanding" is a song by American R&B group Xscape. Written by Manuel Seal, the song was released as the group's second single from the group's 1993 debut album Hummin' Comin' at 'Cha. The song reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks at number one on the Hot R&B Singles chart.

Understanding (Xscape album)

Understanding is a compilation album by female R&B act Xscape, released on December 22, 2002.

Understanding (TV series)

Understanding is a documentary television series that aired from 1994 to 2004 on TLC. The program covered various things understood from a scientific perspective and was narrated by Jane Curtin and Peter Coyote. It originally aired on TLC and is currently being shown on the Science Channel. The series is presented in a similar fashion to two other programs that also show on the Science Channel, Discover Magazine and Megascience.

Understanding (Bobby Womack album)

Understanding is the fourth studio album by American musician Bobby Womack. The album was released on March 30, 1972, by United Artists Records. Womack recorded Understanding in Memphis, Tennessee at American Sound Studio and in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. At Muscle Shoals, he utilized top session players, including drummer Roger Hawkins, guitarists Jimmy Johnson and Tippy Armstrong, bassist David Hood and keyboardist Barry Beckett.

The album reached No. 43 on the Billboard pop albums chart and No. 7 on the R&B albums chart. One of the key songs from the album, "I Can Understand It", has become a soul classic and was a major hit for New Birth the following year. The song was also covered by Womack's brothers The Valentinos (Curtis, Harry and Friendly, Jr.) with production from Bobby. The brothers sing background on the original version. The album version of " I Can Understand It" became a huge club hit in the northeast underground soul and gay clubs prior to the birth of disco. At that time, djs skillfully played the cut directly from the album. New York City record stores began selling the album briskly when they noticed a highly diverse customer base buying Womack's music.

Understanding (disambiguation)

Understanding is a psychological process through which one is able to think about and deal with an abstraction or object.

Understanding may also refer to:

  • Understanding (TV series), a documentary television series
  • Understanding (Bobby Womack album)
  • Understanding (John Patton album)
  • The Understanding, Röyksopp album
  • Understanding (Xscape album)
  • "Understanding" (song), a song by Xscape
  • "Understanding", a song by Bob Seger
  • "Understanding", a song by Evanescence
  • "Understanding", a song by Zion I from Break a Dawn
  • "Understanding", a song by Mussaver and the Coal Choir
Understanding (John Patton album)

Understanding is an album by American organist John Patton recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Usage examples of "understanding".

I was included in the invitation, and Zaira, not understanding French, asked me what we were talking about, and on my telling her expressed a desire to accompany me.

Now, since the Lord wills that a man be reformed and regenerated in order that eternal life or the life of heaven may be his, and none can be reformed or regenerated unless good is appropriated to his will and truth to his understanding as if they were his, and only that can be appropriated which is done in freedom of the will and in accord with the reason of the understanding, no one is reformed in states of no freedom or rationality.

Other things, which pertain to the understanding and hence to the thinking, called matters of faith, are provided everyone in accord with his life, for they are accessory to life and if they have been given precedence, do not become living until they are subsidiary.

The late show that same individuality broadening to a conception of the whole world as plastic material, sustained by a sense of understanding and support, coming into relationship and cooperation with an accumulating movement of kindred minds.

In plain English this means that the ancient Maya had a far more accurate understanding of the true immensity of geological time, and of the vast antiquity of our planet, than did anyone in Britain, Europe or North America until Darwin propounded the theory of evolution.

And making her wonderful, sweet, understanding, no faults at allwhat is she, Mother Teresa?

He had looked out at the quizzical faces, listened to the frantic scrawling of the panicking students, and realized that with a mind that ran and tripped and hurled itself down the corridors of theory in anarchic fashion, he could learn himself, in haphazard lurches, but he could not impart the understanding he so loved.

Her energy in the furtherance of such an unpopular idea as Anarchism, her deep earnestness, her courage and abilities, find growing understanding and admiration.

We had relied on our current textbook understanding of the disease: Inhalational anthrax disease does not occur unless there is direct inhalation of more than ten thousand spores.

However, we had not updated our understanding of anthrax or other potential biological agents in years, primarily because of a lack of data.

Then again, the anthropogenic model was hardly more convincing: life had thrown up something which could contemplate it, a mind capable of understanding it, but so what?

I was in my first year of postdoctoral study, bubbling with the ferment of ideas on the causes of apoptosis that led, five years later and via a circuitous route that I could never have imagined in advance, to a full understanding of cell death and thence to telomod therapy.

If I did not believe that everyone is capable of understanding where an apostrophe goes, I would not be writing this book.

The preparations to show the ensign, which caught the quick and understanding glance of Ghita, and which had not escaped even the duller vision of the artillerists, were made at the outer end of this jigger-yard, A boy appeared on the taffrail, and he was evidently clearing the ensign-halyards for that purpose.

Perhaps this is because the faculty of understanding is only one manifestation of one type of Life, in other words a part of a part, and is thus unadapted to assimilating the Whole.