1. To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
2. To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
3. To contain; to embrace; to include.

1. To become pregnant; undergo conception.
2. To have the idea for; SYN. conceptualize, conceptualise, ideate.

To understand deeply and appreciatively. The term comes from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel Stranger in a Strange Land, where it is also a Martian word for “to drink” and implies the kind of devoted interest that a Martian—native of a dry planet—would have in water. Hackers often use it (for example, in Internet discussions) in reference to computer expertise. See also cyberpunk. + prikaži više

Alternate (chiefly British) spelling of realize.

(Alternate spelling: realise).
1. To convert into cash; of goods and property.
2. To make real or concrete; give reality to; SYN. actualize.

(Irregular preterit, past participle: understood).
1. To perceive mentally, as of an idea; SYN. realize, see.
2. To know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.
3. To make sense of a language, although one may not be able to produce it; SYN. read, interpret, translate.
4. To believe to be the case; SYN. gather, infer.

ETYM Latin apprehensio: cf. French appréhension. Related to Apprehend.
1. Fearful expectation or anticipation; SYN. apprehensiveness, dread.
2. Painful expectation; SYN. misgiving.
3. The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); SYN. arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody.

ETYM Latin comprehensio: cf. French compréhension.
1. An ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result).
2. The act of comprising something; SYN. comprising.