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(v)
(informal) To understand or comprehend a situation; to interpret things correctly.
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(transitive) To become aware of, through the physical senses, to see; to understand.
(transitive) To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
(informal) To understand.
(transitive) To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
To understand.
(transitive) To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
(n)
A lid.
A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
(transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
(archaic, intransitive) To exist or be compatible.
(adj)
Able to be comprehended.
Capable of being understood; comprehensible.
Having been comprehended.
(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
(uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
(transitive) To look at.
(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
(transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To hold inside.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To view as valuable.
(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
(transitive) (figurative) Often followed by out: to deeply understand (someone or something); to get to the bottom of.
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.
(transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
(transitive) To convert a code or cipher to plain text.
(informal) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
(transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
(transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
(transitive) To receive.
(transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
(transitive) To wrap around; enclose; encircle; surround.
(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
(transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
(transitive, UK dialectal, Yorkshire) To lay hold on; seize; grasp; catch; clutch.
Archaic form of comprise. [(transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).]
(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
(transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.
(transitive) To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
(transitive) To include (something) as a part.
(archaic, transitive) To embrace.
To yield assent; to accord; to acquiesce, agree, consent; to adapt oneself, to conform.
Obsolete spelling of involve. [To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.]
Archaic form of encompass. [(transitive) To form a circle around; to encircle.]
(obsolete) To sum or collect together.
Obsolete form of include. [To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.]
To contain, hold in.
To encircle; to gird over.
to distribute or circulate something
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(now uncommon) Alternative form of enclose. [(transitive) To surround with a wall, fence, etc.]
Obsolete spelling of contain. [(transitive) To hold inside.]
Archaic form of incorporate. [(transitive) To include (something) as a part.]
(transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
(transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To conclude or finish completely.
Anything made by combining several things.
To be composed or made up of something.
A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
(obsolete) To incorporate.
(transitive, computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file.
To wrap around, surround; to envelop.
(transitive) To accompany; to be somehow connected with.
(transitive) To include as a constituent part or functionality.
(transitive) To serve; be of service to; be ready to serve or aid.
A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
(obsolete) To lay hold of; to seize.
(chemistry) To create a molar solution of.
(transitive) To capture.
Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.
(obsolete, religion) (with anathema or interdict) To bind up, as in a knot, with the punishment of anathema or interdict; to anathemize or interdict.
(idiomatic) To include (especially of a large amount).
(archaic except in the plural, formal, also figuratively) A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.
(transitive) To shut up or in; enclose; enwrap.
(transitive) To surround, enclose or enfold.
(geometry) The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
(physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
(transitive) To surround with a wall, fence, etc.
(obsolete) To incommode, make uncomfortable.
An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
(transitive) To count together.
(transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
Synonym of infolding.
(transitive) To convert into, or include within, a community.