(v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
(v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
(v. t.) To know or learn with certainty.
(v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
(v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
(v. i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unable to provide valid identification, he was apprehended under the SB1070 law.
(2) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(3) It also said that night that the suspect had been unarmed — an assertion that was revealed to be false the next day when officials acknowledged Gonzalez had a knife with him when he was apprehended.
(4) The GGT activities of the repeating offenders indicated that the percentage of heavy drinkers in this group was approximately the same as in the total population of apprehended drunken drivers.
(5) Didier Enrique “Electric” Ramirez was apprehended for his alleged role in the killing of Nelson García , 39, who was shot dead earlier this month by at least two assailants following a dispute with local landowners, authorities said in a statement.
(6) The method is easy to apprehend and has a low complication rate.
(7) The National Institute of Forensic Toxicology, Oslo, receives blood and urine samples from all Norwegian drivers apprehended on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
(8) The prime minister’s comments suggest the government is prepared to consider appointing a replacement if Heydon accepts requests from unions to recuse himself on the grounds of apprehended bias.
(9) If Gleeson could be the guest speaker, how then could it be described as a “Liberal party event?” Even if it was a party occasion, the commissioner asks: “how does that demonstrate that the speaker has an affinity with a partiality for or a persuasion or allegiance or alignment to the Liberal party or lent it support?” If the fair minded lay observer (FMLO), who in this instance is the judge of apprehended bias, had an idea of Heydon’s record on the high court they might get a whiff of partiality to a particular world view, or philosophy.
(10) • 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the border in 2014, and between 1,300 and 1,500 have been repatriated so far.
(11) The ACTU, in its submission to the commission, cited a precedent from a previous case that “a judge is disqualified if a fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend that the judge might not bring an impartial mind to the resolution of the question the judge is required to decide”.
(12) The proper way for dealing with any question of bias, including apprehended bias, is to make an application for the commissioner to recuse himself, and for the commissioner to consider and rule on the application.” The clerk of the Senate, Rosemary Laing, has provided advice to Wong about the upper house’s power to address the governor general.
(13) The London mayor, who has previously stated that anyone who swears at police should be apprehended, said an officer's decision to warn Mitchell was correct.
(14) It is exemplified for me most admirably in Goethe's interest in Islam generally, and the 14th-century Persian Sufi poet Hafiz in particular, a consuming passion which led to the composition of the West-östlicher Diwan, and it inflected Goethe's later ideas about Weltliteratur, the study of all the literatures of the world as a symphonic whole which could be apprehended theoretically as having preserved the individuality of each work without losing sight of the whole.
(15) The former high court judge rejected submissions from unions that his agreement to deliver the Sir Garfield Barwick address met the legal test of apprehended bias.
(16) You downplay the fact that 97 people implicated in the case have been apprehended, proving that these tragic events have been met with decisive action.
(17) With numbers of unaccompanied children and families apprehended at the south-west border on the rise again, sparking worries of a major influx of the kind seen in the summer of 2014 that overwhelmed facilities andthe legal system , the government is hoping the raids will act as a deterrent.
(18) In NSW, police now have the power to provide more immediate protection to victims via police-issued apprehended domestic violence orders.
(19) The Washington Post revealed on Tuesday that Omar Gonzalez, a military veteran armed with a knife, who scaled the White House fence in September, was not apprehended until he had run through the main hall , past the staircase that leads to the president’s private quarters and all the way through the East Room.
(20) This article is a review of Swedish and international literature concerning children apprehended for drunkenness.
Comprehend
Definition:
(v. t.) To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
(v. t.) To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
(v. t.) To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
Example Sentences:
(1) 66% of the women did not comprehend how lactation performance could decrease.
(2) As clinicians comprehend more fully the multifaceted areas of resistance to treatment, they will be able to help their eating-disordered patients traverse a therapeutic impasse.
(3) Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, a Griffith University associate professor, said the research was “a major step forward in understanding how seaweeds can harm corals and has important implications for comprehending the consequences of increased carbon dioxide emissions on the health of the Great Barrier Reef”.
(4) What the world is seeing now is what we already knew.” Recent events are difficult to comprehend, Ms Karunatilake said, and left her questioning faith and hope.
(5) The Jewish writer and theologian Arthur Cohen wrote of the Shoah in terms of what he called the Tremendum, something so completely impossible to comprehend, yet so essential that we (all) try.
(6) In each of these cases both the chiropractic practitioner and the emergency room physician failed to comprehend the nature of the problem and take appropriate action.
(7) Calculation of structural features of drugs and modeling of biomacromolecules by means of 3D-computer graphics afford a new approach to comprehend a molecular interaction which is important for drug action.
(8) Environmental samplings on the ward, comprehending 246 contact cultures, resulted in the isolation of C. difficile from 25 plates (10.1%).
(9) Comprehending the nature of this property which couples ionic fluxions into mentality is the quintessential problem of science.
(10) Much of the frustration among the UPC members seems to be inspired by a distant authority making a decision about a conflict it couldn't, in their view, possibly comprehend.
(11) She said: “We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but an opportunity for carnage.
(12) "We find it difficult to comprehend James Murdoch's lack of action, given his responsibility as chairman."
(13) The target materials consisted of sentence puzzles that were difficult to comprehend in the absence of a key word or phrase.
(14) It is difficult to comprehend the logic of expecting improvements in this agenda while withdrawing half a billion dollars in funding to many service agencies, and leaving them poised precariously at the mercy of a clumsy and poorly executed “advancement” strategy.
(15) To comprehend speech in most environments, listeners must combine some but not all sounds from across a wide range of frequencies.
(16) Regarding the onset near that age period of capacity to use and comprehend the relational nature of opposition, supporting evidence derives from experimental data on the syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift.
(17) If we then accept our limitations on the precision and order with which we can comprehend it, the understanding of borderline might be supplemented by seeing it in terms of the subjective experience of an integrated self.
(18) Normal and language-impaired subjects did not differ in their ability to infer a connection between the novel word and referent, to comprehend the novel word after a single exposure, and to recall some nonlinguistic information associated with the referent.
(19) The usefulness of functional studies in order better to comprehend the anatomical substrates of PA and their prognostic value are briefly discussed.
(20) All 12-and 14-month-old children comprehended the pointing to a nearby object and most of them also understood the pointing to a distant object.