Hear and Understand

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Hear

Hear verb - To come to an awareness of.
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Understand is a synonym for hear in sense topic. In some cases you can use "Understand" instead a verb "Hear", when it comes to topics like learn, know, become aware of information.
Nearby Words: heart, hearing, heard, hearer

Understand

Understand verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
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Hear is a synonym for understand in sense topic. You can use "Hear" instead a verb "Understand", if it concerns topics such as think, gather, know.
Nearby Words: understanding, understandable, understandably

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people hear people understand people
part hear part understand part
word hear word understand word
time hear time understand time
Other words: story, language, difference, words, talk, thoughts.

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  • Manga / Nisekoi But she says it quietly, and in English, so likely he didn't hear or understand it.
    Source: Manga / Nisekoi
  • Suddenly Voiced: In the games, the Prince and his cousins are Heroic Mimes; they could talk, but the player couldn't understand/hear their voices as more than Pokémon Speak.
    Source: Webcomic / Katamari
  • Something Something Leonard Bernstein And even if you can hear and understand it (not a given in a theater!) that doesn't mean that you know the words; most people likely can't recite much of the Major General song beyond "I am the very model of a modern major general"!
    Source: Something Something Leonard Bernstein
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