get to grips with
make something of
tumble to
wrap one's head around
pick up
cotton on to
know like a book
acquaint
have one's finger on the pulse
get it
aah
suss out
catch on
realization
glom on
metaunderstanding
intelligence
witness
see the light
wise up
get a handle on
indicate
grok
enlighten
skill
forstand
insense
be with
have a handle on
uptaking
neotic
try
learn
insight
seen
perceptiveness
comprehension
insee
penetrate
perceptivity
orient
awake
show someone the ropes
awakening
lear
graspability
open someone's eyes
pick up on
dipstick
sensitize
typical
cognize
unpack
take
empathy
play to
communicate
learning
education
password
twig
get into one's stride
read up
empathise
apprehend
sympathise
conceptualize
debamboozle
figure
look up
understand
empathize
know
sympathize
view
recognize
intellective
intransitivize
unfathom
include
-pilled
mind
explanation
reunderstand
orite
plug into
pick up what someone is putting down
uptake
forsta
bottom
see about
cotton on
get into
inspire
eureka effect
fathom
neotic
typical
intellective
realization
metaunderstanding
intelligence
uptaking
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perceptiveness
comprehension
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empathy
learning
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password
view
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explanation
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wrap one's head around
pick up
cotton on to
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acquaint
have one's finger on the pulse
get it
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catch on
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witness
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skill
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have a handle on
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show someone the ropes
open someone's eyes
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verb
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To record; to notch up.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To pay for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
verb
- To understand something, to catch on.
- To get what's coming to one: to feel someone's wrath; to receive punishment; to receive a retaliation; to receive a beating.
- To have sex, especially referring to its possibility or eventuality.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, it.
intj
intj
- To express understanding.
- Indication of sympathy.
- Indication of mouth being opened wide.
- Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
- Indication of joyful pleasure.
- The sound of one screaming (with as many a's or h's as needed for emphasis).
verb
- To express amazement or surprise or enthusiasm, especially by the interjection aah.
- To express joy or pleasure, especially by the interjection aah.
noun
noun
verb
- To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
- To take as evidence.
- To furnish proof of, to show.
- To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
- To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
noun
verb
- To know; to understand.
- To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
- To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
- To set apart; separate.
- To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
- To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
noun
adj
verb
- To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
- To test someone's patience.
- To put on trial.
- To want
- To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
- To put to test.
- To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
- To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
- To receive an imminent attack; to take.
- To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
- To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
- To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
- To attempt to conceive a child.
- To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
- To taste, sample, etc.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
noun
verb
- To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina, mouth or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
verb
- To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation.
- To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group.
- To change direction to face a certain way.
- To direct towards or point at a particular direction.
- To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
- To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.
- To determine which direction one is facing.
name
noun
- The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.
- The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
adj
verb
- To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
- To empty containers that had been packed.
- To unzip, decompress.
- To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
- To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
verb
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
- To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
- To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- To be connected with (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.
- To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
noun
- the gradual process of acquiring knowledge
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
- the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
verb
verb
- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
- To understand.
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- To be apprehensive; to fear.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
verb
- To come to understand.
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- To enter into; to be a part of.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- To embellish.
- To be reasonable.
noun
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- A number, an amount.
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A figure of speech.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- A numeral.
- A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- A shape.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
verb
- To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something.
- To reconnect or meet with someone that one used to know.
- To obtain information about something from a reference book.
- To have better prospects.
- To enter a query into a database or search engine.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, up.
verb
verb
- To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
- To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
- To experience.
- To be or become aware or cognizant.
- To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
- To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
- To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
- To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
noun
noun
- A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
- A wake.
- The act of seeing or looking at something.
- A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
- An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.
- Something to look at, such as scenery.
- The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
- The range of vision.
- A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
- A point of view.
- A mental image.
- An intention or prospect.
verb
verb
- To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
- To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
- To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.
- to cognize again
- To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
- To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).
- To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
noun
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- Attention, consideration or thought.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
verb
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- To purpose, intend, plan.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To remember.
- To be careful about.
- To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
verb
- To interrogate in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.
- To become involved or interested in (a discussion, issue, or activity).
- To enter (an unfavourable state).
- To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
- To put on (an item of clothing).
- To cause to behave uncharacteristically; to possess.
- To reach into or interact with (an object).
verb
- To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
- To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
- To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
- To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
- To spread rumour indirectly.
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