What's the difference between graspable and understood?
Graspable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being grasped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contrary to some other reports, the infants did not respond differently to a visually presented, graspable, solid object than to its two-dimensional representation.
(2) But to see Taylor filling a slip for the first part of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (that was 1958) was to lose track of Tennessee Williams and Paul Newman, and to dwell on the sheen, slipperiness and near-graspability of that flimsy notional garment.
(3) They’ve had some pop-up portable potties around here but that doesn’t attack the underlying issues, the culture clash – evictions and homelessness and tech money.” He said a friend of his is facing eviction in the Castro district, where the landlord is trying to sell the rent-controlled property for the vast profits now easily graspable all over the city, “and the people who want to buy are coming around bullying the tenants” instead of negotiating.
(4) It's well under 200 pages long and comes with a well-pruned cast of characters, and although there are three different narrators, the whole thing is perfectly graspable, makes its point quickly and without beating about the bush, and exits without outstaying its welcome.
Understood
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Understand
() imp. & p. p. of Understand.
Example Sentences:
(1) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(2) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
(3) With the successful culture of these tissues, their development, biochemistry, and physiology, potentially of great importance in understanding early vertebrate evolution, can be better understood.
(4) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(5) This goal seems to have been met as indicated by an evaluation received from the students, since 58.3 percent believed they better understood the role of the technologist and clinical laboratory in patient care.
(6) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
(7) Hypermobility and instability following injury and degenerative joint disease is poorly understood and often not recognized as the cause of the patients symptoms.
(8) The government has been counting on the fact that their attacks on the NHS are too complicated to be widely understood: after all, their Health and Social Care Act was much longer than the legislation that created the NHS under Aneurin Bevan’s watch in the first place.
(9) These results confirm that both tests are useful predictors, but their strengths and weaknesses must be understood.
(10) The best understood fusion mechanism is that of influenza virus, for which sequences involved in pH-dependent fusion can be correlated with the crystallographic structure of the spike protein.
(11) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
(12) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(13) But it is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a fictional history.
(14) As a contribution to the proposed revision of the DSM-III-R category "Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition" for DSM-IV, this article reviews the history of how the relationship of psychiatric illness to neurological illness has been understood with respect to depression.
(15) Myocardial depression is a major but poorly understood component of septic shock.
(16) The reasons for this are not well understood but such factors as differing mechanisms of action, development of tolerance and unique patterns of regional redistribution of blood flow may all play a modifying role in differentiating one vasodilator from another.
(17) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
(18) Consequently, our results can be understood as supporting a dimensional theory of psychopathology.
(19) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(20) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.