What's the difference between comprehend and know?

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.

Know


Definition:

  • (n.) Knee.
  • (v. i.) To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty.
  • (v. i.) To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information.
  • (v. i.) To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization.
  • (v. i.) To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure.
  • (v. i.) To have sexual commerce with.
  • (v. i.) To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception; to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of.
  • (v. i.) To be assured; to feel confident.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
  • (2) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
  • (3) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
  • (4) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
  • (5) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
  • (6) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (7) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
  • (8) I know I have the courage to deal with all the sniping but you worry about the effects on your family."
  • (9) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
  • (10) To know the relation between the signal intensity and sodium concentration, sodium concentration--signal intensity curve was obtained using phantoms with various sodium concentrations (0.05-1.0%).
  • (11) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
  • (12) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (13) No one knows if this drug will be approved for use by American physicians.
  • (14) "Everyone knows what it stands for and everyone has already got it in their home.
  • (15) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
  • (16) In view of its significant effects on drug metabolizing enzymes and clearance mechanisms, it is important to know its disposition characteristics.
  • (17) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (18) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
  • (19) It is thus important to know whether carriers of the AT gene have a risk of cancer or diabetes greater than comparable noncarriers.
  • (20) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.