Understand
Understand verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
Work out and understand are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work out" instead a verb "Understand".
Work out
Work out verb - Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of.
Understand and work out are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Understand" instead a verb "Work out".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- conceive and understand
- conceive and work out
- reckon and understand
- reckon and work out
- determine and understand
- determine and work out
- figure and understand
- figure and work out
- guess and understand
- guess and work out
- deduce and understand
- deduce and work out
- conclude and understand
- conclude and work out
Both terms in one sentence
- Instead she went to Las Vegas and started hooking again, and Mickey can't understand why things didn't work out.
Source: Literature / The Gods of Guilt - A distressing number of them can't seem to understand why anyone would work out for anything but purely aesthetic reasons, or not work out at all.
Source: Gym Bunny - Sean Paul's thick Jamaican accent is tough enough to understand when he's talking; it's almost impossible to work out what he's singing in "Temperature" aside from 'love' and 'temperature'.
Source: Indecipherable Lyrics
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