Understood Sentence Examples

The girl understood and began to clear them.

But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name.

He didn't know if he understood what he was doing.

He stood at the back, and, though he had heard hardly anything, understood everything in his own way.

His sense of humor wasn't well understood by many.

They spread their wings and opened their mouths to show that they understood his words.

I wasn't sure I understood what he was asking and said so.

She'd stayed after she turned eighteen, because he was the only one who understood her strange gift.

By the end of their conversation, he understood why she laughed, too.

It was something her parents never understood... which was probably why they moved to Fayetteville.

I understood why he needed to defang Darkyn.

Much of the work carried on by these organisms is not clearly understood; there are, however, certain processes which have been extensively investigated and to these it is necessary to refer.

They could not see the speeding horse, but they heard the clatter of its hoofs far down the road, and they understood the cry, "Up! up! and defend yourselves!"

The only word she understood was Bordeaux.

He understood it was in their best interest to protect humanity.

Suddenly, he understood why the Watcher couldn't find her.

Martha Washington understood my signs, and I seldom had any difficulty in making her do just as I wished.

And read I did, whether I understood one word in ten or two words on a page.

Jule understood the importance of her appearance, just as he knew all bets were off once she was revealed.

That was understood from the beginning.

As soon as historians of different nationalities and tendencies begin to describe the same event, the replies they give immediately lose all meaning, for this force is understood by them all not only differently but often in quite contradictory ways.

He understood that the Black God can never truly kill the White God for fear of unleashing the Original Beings, who would crush him.

Uncertain if she understood him or not, Deidre studied him.

Before she became a human, she never understood him or what he felt and thought.

Now human, she understood what she had done.

The puzzled curiosity on the features of Darkyn's mate made Deidre wonder if the girl fully understood what had happened.

His eyes wandered over her face, but he gave no indication that he understood her, much less that he wanted to respond.

Fred understood this and volunteered to ski with Donnie while the others took a couple of runs from the higher elevations.

There was a moment of realization as he understood her brave actions, and then a snap as the line let loose and he tumbled backwards like some mortally wounded game bird shot from the sky, arms outstretched, scream muffled in his mask.

He understood the pain it would bring.

Logically, he understood Mike's decision.

They said that a gentleman farmer, who was behind the scenes, wanted to double his money, which, as I understood, amounted to half a million already; but in order to cover each one of his dollars with another, he took off the only coat, ay, the skin itself, of Walden Pond in the midst of a hard winter.

While she indicated how saddened she was at the news she understood.

I tried to think calmly and finally understood.

With a sinking feeling, Dusty understood Sofi's concern better.

She'd accepted her father, because there was no one else who understood her.

It must not have been totally unheard of if they all understood what it was.

Deidre had the sense of speaking a different language, even though she understood his words.

Deidre approached unbidden and stood before him, wishing she understood him and their bond better.

Only now, she understood he was manipulating her.

There was passion and a deep longing she innately understood only she was able to fill.

Dean quickly understood this was no social call.

He spoke in front of Maria's uncomprehending presence, although statements like "Martha, no" were readily understood.

Gabriel understood why the old standard was gone.

Her secret now revealed, Gabriel understood why she'd refused to tell him.

He had to remain a compassionate Death, one who understood what it was to live.

It was also a warning, one Gabriel understood innately, that Deidre belonged to the Dark One.

The firm assertion of Darkyn's mate that she bore no one ill-will made more sense when he understood why she said it.

Had she ever understood how honorable and good he was?

It was helpful to know that he heard and understood what she was saying.

Something about him touched her on a level that left her feeling at peace, as if he, too, understood what it was to face death each day and struggle to see the light instead of the surrounding darkness.

He understood why Rhyn never let Katie out of arm's reach when they were in the same room.

She understood why Daniela kept feeding her brandy the night before.

She understood why he liked the spot; the scent of honeysuckle and herbs was thick in the air, the manicured gardens pleasant to look at and the awning providing the right amount of cool shade from the midmorning Georgia sun.

Deidre almost understood why the portals brought her wherever this was.

He'd been ignoring the extent of the power available from the souls for fear of violating the Code, which he now understood was not binding in the face of a threat like Darkyn.

Definitely some advice from someone who understood make-up better and a real hair stylist who could figure out how to un-pink hair.

The logical side of her understood that Darkyn's offer of fixing her was a better option than dying on the operating table.

She'd never understood his waffling.

But right now, Jade needed someone who understood him, as only Sasha always had.

She.d seen the acrimonious relationship between him and Kris and understood some of what made them enemies.

Tears began to spill down her face as she understood the depth of Gabriel.s pain.

It was a word Andre had used that Rhyn never understood.

Just when she thought she understood the rules of the Immortals, they changed.

Now he understood Rhyn.s powerful motivator, and he was both impressed and horrified.

She couldn't help wondering if Evelyn really understood that going to his home country would mean she'd hear this kind of nonsense all the time.

From what I understood, that guy and Romas's eldest brother have personal issues with each other and are constantly hazing each other.

If only she understood our culture better.

I need you to take me to a spaceship so I can arrange to go home, she said with exaggerated slowness to make sure he understood despite her faulty translator.

She understood him and obviously felt the same energy he did when they touched.

Having spent most of his years in battle, he understood when a traditional approach would not work with an unusual opponent.

He understood why Ne'Rin had refused to allow her to wear the translator with visitors.

He understood better the tension between Ne'Rin and nishani after several hesitant stories from Talal of their discussions.

Two moons rose, and the four warriors around her kept to a path only they understood.

She loved her friend but understood if Evelyn was there, it wasn't necessarily for her.

I understood you to say you'd be staying with us for some time.

Here, easy accessibility, great ice in a deep, narrow gorge, facilities close by and a park run by people who understood the sport and emphasized safety, made for an ideal package.

They understood each other in a way no one else ever could.

He wanted to scream at him; to demand an explanation, but understood how fruitless that would be and measured his best course to remain calm.

She acted graciously with all the guests, yet he could pick up subtle nuances that affirmed whether she was speaking to someone who genuinely understood art, or a snob who merely bought it to be in vogue.

She immediately understood where his mind had gone and chuckled wickedly.

He understood the pain of turning your back on your family.

He understood her anxiety stemmed mostly from worrying Connor would leave like Standish had.

No one here understood that they were surrounded by an enemy even Brady couldn't figure out yet.

For once, she almost understood Brady's ability to kill without regret.

Andre always said Death was more dangerous than the Dark One, because he understood what the Dark One wanted.

Randy just smiled in a way that said he understood.

He understood and accepted her.

He didn't take her up on the hill because he understood.

Josh was the only one who ever understood.

Certainly she understood his perspective better.

He understood the value of a gentle caress and a soft spoken word.

Surely he understood the importance – both to her and the church.

Jenn pitied him but couldn't bring herself to speak, not when she, too, barely understood what was going on.

I'm not sure I understood much of what you just said.

She was at war with herself, a war he understood too well.

He was a man who understood power.

You've used everyone to win a war that none of us understood.

He felt the uncanny sensation that she understood his tormented existence.

The emotions subsided as she understood her danger to be over.

Taran understood the look intimately.

Abruptly she understood the warning from Sami and Ledden.

He suspected Sirian was Memon's spy and couldn't help but wonder if Memon understood how deep ambition ran in a man like Sirian.

He understood the depth of her fear.

She understood his hatred for Memon, the man who had robbed him of more than his sight.

It was nice having someone who could talk knowledgably about the animals – someone who not only understood their interest, but shared it.

It was so nice having someone to talk to – someone who understood how I felt.

Unable to speak, she nodded to show she understood.

Sloping shoulders, huge biceps, wide chest, lean abdomen … Now she understood rule number three and why it had the most exclamation points.

Gerry was still wary, and Xander understood why.

Unable to read her mind, he almost understood what might be more than one night of fun about the woman.

He doesn't necessarily want to be understood.

Xander understood; it was the same reaction Ingrid gave him whenever he claimed he could cook.

She understood why the girls who left his bed were so dazed.

She understood why Jonny wanted it.

She'd warned them not to be freaked out but understood it wasn't possible.

Xander understood that some part of Jessi was stuck in hard core denial, the kind that needed irrefutable proof that she had no other alternatives.

Xander understood how dangerous of a weapon he was; Eden exploited it once before.

Of course, Xander now understood the frustration of knowing something was wrong without knowing exactly what.

She seemed proud of herself for outmaneuvering Xander, a sentiment Jessi readily understood.

Xander understood why it was that the Others were suddenly targeting him and the power of the gem.

Logically, he understood they were needed, but it didn't make things feel better.

She understood why Jonny might want it but not why he seemed so uncertain.

She hoped he understood this, if nothing else.

Xander understood the question Sofi wouldn't tell him, the one he had the answer to already.

I understood that when I made my choice.

No one has better understood or more skilfully portrayed the artistic temperament - the musician, the actor, the poet - and no French writer before her had so divined and laid bare the heart of a girl.

No Englishman ever understood the native character so well as Hastings; none ever devoted himself more heartily to the promotion of every scheme, great and small, that could advance the prosperity of India.

The other parts of the instrument will be readily understood from the figure without further explanation.

The other members of the group are relative and dependent, and only to be understood as in various degrees subordinate to the primitive conception.

It proposes to set forth the genesis of the existing universe from principles which can be plainly Lh understood, and according to the acknowledged laws of the transmission of movement.

Revelation is a source of knowledge, rather than the manifestation in the world of a divine life, and its chief characteristic is that it presents men with mysteries, which are to be believed even when they cannot be understood.

The first book, after a short introduction upon the nature of theology as understood by Aquinas, proceeds in 119 questions to discuss the nature, attributes and relations of God; and this is not done as in a modern work on theology, but the questions raised in the physics of Aristotle find a place alongside of the statements of Scripture, while all subjects in any way related to the central theme are brought into the discourse.

The duties of the skip will already be understood by inference.

What followed in the second and third years of the Celman administration can only adequately be described as a debauchery of the national honour, of the national resources, of the rights of Argentines as citizens of the republic. Buenos Aires was still prostrate under the crushing blow of the misfortunes of 1880, and lacked strength and power of organization necessary to raise any effective protest against the proceedings of Celman and his friends when the true character of these proceedings was first understood.

Its most suggestive likenesses are indicated above, but further evidence may render the similarity less striking when the meaning of it is more fully understood.

The business of the scientist is to explain everything by the physical causes which are comparatively well understood and to exclude the interference of spiritual causes.

If, therefore, one understood the signs noted on a particular liver, one entered, as it were, into the mind - as one of the manifestations of soul-life of the deity who had assimilated the being of the animal to his own being.

It but remains to call attention to the fact that the earlier view of the liver as the seat of the soul gave way among many ancient nations to the theory which, reflecting the growth of anatomical knowledge, assigned that function to the heart, while, with the further change which led to placing the seat of soul-life in the brain, an attempt was made to partition the various functions of manifestations of personality among the three organs, brain, heart and liver, the intellectual activity being assigned to the first-named; the higher emotions, as love and courage, to the second; while the liver, once the master of the entire domain of soul-life as understood in antiquity, was degraded to serve as the seat of the lower emotions, such as jealousy, anger and the like.

His moderate and trimming attitude was understood neither by the extreme Independents nor by the Presbyterians.

No adequate definition is to be found even in the British statute-book; for although g parliament has on different occasions passed acts dealing with such railways both in Great Britain and Ireland, it has not inserted in any of them a clear and sufficient statement of what it intends shall be understood by the term, as distinguished from an ordinary railway.

How far he was above his contemporaries, how little appreciated or understood by them, is shown by the absence of references to him in other Greek writers, and by the fact that his work had no effect in arresting the decay of mathematical science.

In Montana, where 10 percent of residents spoke German and another 10 percent were of German descent, ministers weren't allowed to preach in German to congregants who understood no English, and one town publicly burned German textbooks, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported.

He understood my signs, and I knew it and loved him at once.

You must remember, dear teacher, that Greek parents were very particular with their children, and they used to let them listen to wise words, and I think they understood some of them.

When I was a little older I felt the need of some means of communication with those around me, and I began to make simple signs which my parents and friends readily understood; but it often happened that I was unable to express my thoughts intelligibly, and at such times I would give way to my angry feelings utterly....

I was never angry after that because I understood what my friends said to me, and I was very busy learning many wonderful things.

Anatole did not release him, and though he kept nodding to show that he understood, Anatole went on translating Dolokhov's words into English.

Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in silence at Princess Anna Mikhaylovna.

The French colonel with difficulty repressed a yawn, but was polite and evidently understood Balashev's importance.

He understood that latent heat (as they say in physics) of patriotism which was present in all these men he had seen, and this explained to him why they all prepared for death calmly, and as it were lightheartedly.

The other generals, however, understood it and, leaving aside the question of Moscow, spoke of the direction the army should take in its retreat.

He understood that for him the storm had blown over, and that Kutuzov would content himself with that hint.

The young man said he understood but sounded confused at Dean's sudden absence from their lives, though he didn't press for an explanation.

But before long he came to understand, as no other commander of the age save Gustavus understood it, the value of true "shock-action."

He understood their problem and it helped galvanize him to volunteer to help them.

The speed of a cable is given in words per minute, the conventional number of five letters per word being understood, though in actual practice, owing to the extensive use of special codes, the number of letters per word is really between eight and nine; and this forms a considerable factor in lowering the earning capacity of a cable.

These distance effects were not understood at the time, or else were referred simply to ordinary induction.

The apparatus is exceedingly complicated and can only be understood by reference to very detailed diagrams.

This will be better understood if we consider shortly on what the chief characteristics of sound depend.

Considering the time at which he wrote, Reis seems to have understood very well the nature of the vibrations he had to reproduce, but he failed to comprehend how they could be reproduced by electricity.

His fundamental idea - the interruption of the current - was a fatal mistake, which was not at the time properly understood.

The plant generally understood by this name is Nepenthes, a genus containing nearly sixty species, natives of tropical Asia, north Australia and (one only) of Madagascar.

These conditions made a territorial system of recruiting or organization, as understood in Germany, practically impossible.

But Victor Emmanuel on this occasion proved the greater statesman of the two; he understood that, hard as it was, he must content himself with Lombardy for the present, lest all be lost.

It does not, as has been sometimes asserted, in any way establish a representative system, as this is understood to-day.

By budding is understood the formation of a new individual from a fresh growth of undifferentiated material.

Other variations in the mode of growth or budding bring about further differences in the building up of the colony, which are not in all cases properly understood and cannot be described in detail here.

It can only be understood by subordinating the mechanical conception to the vital, by conceiving the world as one organism animated by a spiritual principle or intelligence (Weltseele).

It would seem that up to the 4th century of our era the Sinhalese had written exclusively in their own tongue; that is to say that for six centuries they had studied and understood Pali as a dead language without using it as a means of literary expression.

At that date the science of chemistry was very imperfectly known, and the real constituents of ordinary remedies so little understood that different virtues were attributed to different products containing the same constituents.

The subject of patent medicines is but little understood by the general public. Any medicine, the composition of which is kept secret, but which is advertised on the label for the cure of diseases, must in Great Britain bear a patent medicine stamp equal to about one-ninth of its face value.

The means by which such a supply is ensured are by no means clearly understood, but many agencies are probably at work.

The working of it is not at all completely understood at present, nor can we say exactly what is the part played by the pigment and what is the rfile of the protoplasm of the plastid.

More indirect methods, such as the grafting of less resistant scions on more vigorous stocks, of raising special late or early varieties by crossing or selection, and so on, have also met with success; but it must be understood that resistant in such cases usually means that some peculiarity of quick growth, early ripening or other life-feature in the plant is for the time being taken advantage of.

When the nature and effect of ecological factors have become more fully understood, it will be possible to dispense with the above artificial classification of factors, and to frame one depending on the action of the various factors; but such a classification is not possible in the present state of knowledge.

In the present state of knowledge, however, this can only be done in a very meagre fashion; as the effect of habitat factors on plants is but little understood as yet either by physiologists or ecologists.

The effect of common salt on the metabolism of plants is not understood.

The effect of lime on plants is less understood even than the effect of common salt.

Sahel thus understood comprises regions which form the inter mediate zone between the fertile lands of the Sudan and the desert.

Himilco, a contemporary of Hanno, was charged with an expedition along the west coast of Iberia northward, and as far as the uncertain references to this voyage can be understood, he seems to have passed the Bay of Biscay and possibly sighted the coast of England.

They felt they must resist him to the death, and with the troops scattered throughout Italy, and the newly enfranchised Italians, to whom it was understood that Sulla was bitterly hostile, they counted confidently on success.

These are instances, now well understood, that almost every organic system, even when studied by itself, may yield valuable indications as to the natural affinities of the various groups of birds.

At all stages of religious development, however, and more especially in the case of the more primitive types of cult, prayer as thus understood occurs together with, and shades off into, other varieties of observance that bear obvious marks of belonging to the same family.

When the rustic talks in the vernacular to his horse he is not much concerned to know whether he is heard and understood; still less when he mutters threats against an absent rival, or kicks the stool that has tripped him up with a vicious "Take that!"

The fact that many of the most important works were written in Arabic, the vernacular of the Spanish Jews under the Moors, which was not understood in France, gave rise to a number of translations into Hebrew, chiefly by the family of Ibn Tibbon (or Tabbon).

The montes, by which are understood plantations as well as native thickets, produce among other woods the algarrobo, a poor imitation of oak; the guayabo, a substitute for boxwood; the quebracho, of which the red kind is compared to sandalwood; and the urunday, black and white, not unlike rosewood.

This is not nobility in the true sense; it is not nobility as nobility was understood either in the French kingdom or in the Venetian commonwealth.

We have seen how much this takes away from the true notion of nobility as understood in the aristocratic commonwealths.

The language of government and trade is English, which is understood far and wide throughout Liberia.

The sacred literature of the Balinese is written in the ancient Javanese or Kawi language, which appears to be better understood here than it is in Java.

The laws and relations of the cyclones and anti-cyclones in Russia are not yet thoroughly understood.

Partly from disappointment and nervous exhaustion, and partly from a conviction that the country required rest in order to judge the practical results of the reforms already accomplished, the tsar refrained from further initiating new legislation, and the government gave it to be understood that the epoch of the great reforms was closed.

When the British government seemed disposed to use coercive measures for the protection of the Armenians, he gave it clearly to be understood that any such proceeding would be opposed by Russia.

The fundamental relation between the applied torque and the tractive force F will be understood from fig.

It must be understood that a railway described as " light " is not necessarily built of narrower gauge than the standard.

Hebrew religious institutions can be understood from the biblical evidence studied in the light of comparative religion; and without going afield to Babylonia, Assyria or Egypt, valuable data are furnished by the cults of Phoenicia, Syria and Arabia, and these in turn can be illustrated from excavation and from modern custom.

Their writings are to be understood in the light of their age and of the conditions which gave birth to them.

There were physicians who understood the use of herbs, and must be rewarded when their help was invited.

Agriculture, which is well understood, is the chief industry.

The distinguishing characteristic of scholasticism is the acceptance by reason of a given matter, the truth of which is independent of rational grounds, and which remains a presupposition even when it cannot be understood.

Stripped of its definitely miraculous character, the doctrine of the inner light may be regarded as the familiar mystical protest against formalism, literalism, and scripture-worship. Swedenborg, though selected by Emerson in his Representative Men as the typical mystic, belongs rather to the history of spiritualism than to that of mysticism as understood in this article.

This arrangement may be understood by reference to the following diagram, representing the relative position of the stamens in orchids generally and in Cypripedium.

It has been understood as if Reid had merely appealed from the reasoned conclusions of philosophers to the unreasoned beliefs of common life.

It is a remarkable fact, not yet understood, that in certain Enchytraeidae and Lumbriculidae the spermathecae open into the oesophagus as well as on to the exterior.

The latter became particularly attached to him, and really understood his character; and it is strange that his remarks upon Mirabeau in the fragment of autobiography which he left, and Mirabeau's letters to him, should have been neglected by French writers.

Such was Mirabeau's programme, from which he never diverged, but which was far too statesmanlike to be understood by the poor king, and far too positive regarding the altered condition of the monarchy to be palatable to the queen.

Luard supposes that Matthew never intended his work to see the light in its present form, and many passages of the autograph have against them the note offendiculum, which shows that the writer understood the danger which he ran.

Oriental pessimism, at least as understood by Europeans, is best exemplified in Buddhism, which finds in human life sorrow and pain.

With one symbol for an unknown, it will easily be understood what scope there is foradroit assumptions, for the required numbers, of expressions in the one unknown which are at once seen to satisfy some of the conditions, leaving only one or two to be satisfied by the particular value of x to be determined.

Mill remarks that the uncertainty hanging over the very elements of moral and social philosophy proves that the means of arriving at the truth in those sciences are not yet properly understood.

The significance of the amount of money involved varies greatly for different trades, and can only be understood by reference to the character and habits of the people concerned.

It may mean what is ordinarily understood by the word - climate, rainfall, railway rates or anything else except " indestructible powers of the soil."

It is now understood that they are Euthyneurous Gastropods adapted to natatory locomotion and pelagic life.

Thereupon Napoleon, in order to grace the new regime by an act of clemency, pardoned Moreau, it being understood that he must leave France.

His was a mind that worked wonders in well-worn grooves and on facts that were well understood.

In 1756 he was asked by Newcastle to become prime minister as the alternative to Pitt, but Granville, who perfectly understood why the offer was made, declined and supported Pitt.

We may remark that fleas possess no wings, but are understood to possess a true pupa.

The first volume of this, containing the land-birds, appeared in 1797 6 - the text being, it is understood, by Beilby - the second, containing the water-birds, in 1804.

His sources for the teachings of Jesus are the "Memoirs of the Apostles," by which are probably to be understood the Synoptic Gospels (without the Gospel according to St John), which, according to his account, were read along with the prophetic writings at the public services.

He considered the incarnation of Christ as the necessary manifestation to man of an eternal sonship in the divine nature, apart from which those filial qualities which God demands from man could have no sanction; by faith as used in Scripture he understood to be meant a certain moral or spiritual activity or energy which virtually implied salvation, because it implied the existence of a principle of spiritual life possessed of an immortal power.

As a parliamentarian he was very clear-headed, and thoroughly understood how to lead a party.

It is generally understood that the products of fractional distillation, even in the laboratory, are not identical with the hydrocarbons present in the crude oil, but are in part produced by the action of heat upon them.

The rationale of this treatment is not fully understood, but the action appears to consist in the separation or decomposition of the aromatic hydrocarbons, fatty and other acids, phenols, tarry bodies, &c., which lower the quality of the oil, the sulphuric acid removing some, while the caustic soda takes out the remainder, and neutralizes the acid which has been left in the oil.

Their function is still little understood.

The supreme importance of a study of Greek antiquities on the spot, long understood by scholars in Europe and in America, has gradually come to be recognized in England, where a close attention to ancient texts, not always adequately supplemented by a course of local study and observation, formerly fostered a peculiarly conservative attitude in regard to the problems of Greek archaeology.

Ignatius, however, says nothing about so important a matter; indeed he understood the vision to mean that many things would be adverse to them, and told his companions when they reached the city that he saw the windows there closed against him.

These two are so constantly connected that the one cannot be understood without the other.

Even then he had a great reputation at Moscow as one who thoroughly understood "German ways and things."

It had already been understood that the various genera of the Ratitae were the representatives of so many different groups, each of which was at least equivalent to ordinal rank, and that therefore, if the Ratitae were still to be considered a natural group, this common ancestry must be referred to a remote geological epoch.

It is readily understood why men imbued with the authority of tradition should prosecute the search for a substance which would confer unlimited wealth upon the fortunate discoverer.

Usually, when the symbols of the elements are written or printed with a figure to the right, it is understood that this indicates a molecule of the element, the symbol alone representing an atom.

But these cases, when properly understood and calmly viewed, do not carry conviction against the epistle.

The mole-hills and serrated ridges of medieval maps were still in almost general use at the close of the 18th century, and are occasionally met with at the present day, being cheaply produced, readily understood by the unlearned, and in reality preferable to the uncouth and misleading hatchings still to be seen on many maps.

Their testimony in this respect is the better understood when we bear in mind the large amount of perjury in the law courts, and profane swearing in general which prevailed at the time when the Society took its rise.

It is in the communities in which the military order obtained an ascendancy over the sacerdotal, and which were directly organized for war, that slavery (as the word is commonly understood) had its natural and appropriate place.

But it is not so well understood that slavery discharged important offices in the later social evolution - first, by enabling military action to prevail with the degree of intensity and continuity requisite for the system of incorporation by conquest which was its final destination; and, secondly, by forcing the captives, who with their descendants came to form the majority of the population in the conquering community, to an industrial life, in spite of the antipathy to regular and sustained labour which is deeply rooted in human nature.

When the nature of the slave trade began to be understood by the public, all that was best in England was adverse to it.

His figures regarding the width of the different kinds of papyri have generally been understood to concern the width (or height) of the rolls, as distinguished from their length.

In the more recent hymns of the Rig-Veda and in later India, on the other hand, only evil spirits are understood by asuras, while in Iran the corresponding word ahura was, and ever has continued to be, the designation of God the Lord.

The following is a list of the inhabited isles, proceeding from south to north; but it will be understood that they do not lie in a direct line, that several are practically on the same latitude, that the bulk are situated off the east and west coast of Mainland, and that two of them are distinctly outlying members of the group. The figures within brackets.

Of other agricultural crops those of fruits are of greatest importance - bananas (which are planted about once in three years), pine-apples (planted about once in five years), coco-nuts, oranges, &c. The coco-nut industry has long been largely confined to the region about Baracoa, owing to the ruin of the trees elsewhere by a disease not yet thoroughly understood, which, appearing finally near Baracoa, threatened by 1908 to destroy the industry there as well.

To some extent the real level of military expenditure has been masked by the separation of certain payments into " extraordinary " expenditure, a course which, it is understood, has not been followed in the budgets of the " new regime," and which will not be revived.

Eaton and others have given us valuable works or monographs on the family; but the subject still remains little understood, partly owing to the great difficulty of preserving such delicate insects; and it appears probable they can only be satisfactorily investigated as moist preparations.

Germany and Russia had, temporarily at all events, withdrawn from the cooperation, but France came in for the first time in 1920, and it was understood that the United States was likely to join in the scheme of investigation.

They are usually insoluble in water, alcohol and ether; and their presence as solutes in vegetable and animal fluids is not yet perfectly understood, but it is probably to be connected with the presence of salts or other substances.

His diary shows how little he understood, or cared for, the business of a king.

Nietzsche's writings must be understood in their relation to these circumstances of his life, and as the outcome of a violent revolt against them on the part of an intensely emotional and nervous temperament.

Its exact function is not fully understood.

The nature of the coagulation is not yet completely understood.

The exact manner in which isoprene passes into caoutchouc is also not understood.

It must, however, be distinctly understood that it is not the mere admixture but the actual combination of sulphur with indiarubber that causes vulcanization.

Whether Plato understood these forms as actually existent apart from all the particular examples, or as being of the nature of immutable physical laws, is matter of discussion.

Apart altogether from the facts that this investigation is still in its infancy and that the conditions of experiment are insufficiently understood, its ultimate success is rendered highly problematical by the essential fact that real scientific results can be achieved only by data recorded in connexion with a perfectly nortnal subject; a conscious or interested subject introduces variable factors which are probably incalculable.

It is understood, unless otherwise expressed, that the judgment shall be in accordance with the law by which civilized nations have agreed to be bound, whenever such law is applicable.

It was clearly understood that the Boers would aim to establish a republican government over the whole of South Africa, and that the terms of peace simply meant greater bloodshed at no distant date.

Taken strictly his words state the position of extreme Nominalism; but even if we were not forbidden to do so by other passages, in which the doctrine of moderate Realism is adopted (under cover of the current distinction between the singular as felt and the pure universal as understood), it would still be unfair to press any passage in the writings of this period.

He held that in Spain the Catholic faith was not understood by the people, and that their ignorance was the pressing danger.

There can be no doubt that if Cobden had been satisfied to devote all his energies to commercial life he might soon have attained to great opulence, for it is understood that his share in the profits of the business he had established amounted to from £8000 to £10,000 a year.

They brought from their native Italy a thorough knowledge of the science of government as the middle ages understood it, and the decimation of the Hungarian magnates during the civil wars enabled them to re-create the noble hierarchy on a feudal basis, in which full allowance was made for Magyar idiosyncracies.

It was not, indeed, simply a reactionary or undemocratic measure; it was, as The Times correspondent pointed out, " a measure sui generis, designed to defeat the objects of the universal suffrage movement that compelled the Coalition to take office in April 1906, and framed in accordance with Magyar needs as understood by one of the foremost Magyar noblemen."

Its deep underlying causes can only be understood in the light of the whole of Hungarian history.

He also made If we remember that by " blood " Aristotle understood " red blood," and that he did not know of the existence of colourless blood, his primary division is not a bad one.

It must be understood that the above argument distinctly assumes that the different parts of the object are self-luminous, or at least that the light proceeding from the various points is without phase relations.

The Istitutioni and Dimostrationi Armoniche deal, like most other theoretical works of the period, with the whole science of music as it was understood in the 16th century.

Fletcher was one of the few parish clergy who understood Wesley and his work, yet he never wrote or said anything inconsistent with his own Anglican position.

This does not necessarily prove that " the technical terms of the Temple music had gone out of use, presumably because they were already become unintelligible, as they were when the Septuagint version was made "; for it does not follow that technical musical terms which had originated in the Temple at Jerusalem and were intelligible in Palestine would have been understood in Egypt.

It is, however, probable that the title soon came to be understood of David's authorship, with the result that further notes were added indicating the situation in David's life to which the psalms appeared to be appropriate.

Now that the ascription " to David " was understood of David's authorship before the time of the LXX.

Both include psalms which are most naturally understood as referring to the persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes and to the Maccabaean victories, and cannot therefore be separated by a long interval of time.

In Egypt by the translators of the Septuagint these terms were not understood.

The South African Primary System includes a complex of rocks as yet little understood.

It must, however, be acknowledged that these relationships are very imperfectly understood.

Their distribution, other than in the south-eastern districts, is imperfectly understood.

The decision was in favour of Waterboer, who had, on the 25th of August 1870, before the appointment of the arbitration court, offered his territory to Great Britain, and it was understood by all the parties interested that that offer would be accepted.

The history of the Transvaal is more complete and better understood to-day than it was in 1877, and no one who acquaints himself with the facts will deny that Shepstone acted with care and moderation.

In Johannes 1 Jameson, speaking at Durban on the 9th of August 1910, declared that the raid was not racial in the sense usually understood, but an effort towards federation.

What is understood by a" tone " in this language is distinguished in reality, not by the number of sonorous vibrations which belong to it, but rather by a use of the vocal apparatus special to each.

The two systems of folds meet about Barquisimeto, where the structure becomes very complex and is not thoroughly understood.

Army orders were issued at 5 a.m., but still the urgency of the situation was so little understood that had they been verbally adhered to the force of the II.

By mucoid is understood a soft gelatinous substance containing mucin, or pseudomucin, which is normally secreted by the epithelial cells of both the mucous membranes and glands.

The significance of glycogen in large amounts, or of its absence from the tissues in pathological conditions, is not clearly understood.

Galen was as devoted to anatomical and, so far as then understood, physiological research as to practical medicine.

Van Helmont (1578-1644) was a man of noble family in Brussels, who, after mastering all other branches of learning as then understood, devoted himself with enthusiasm to medicine and chemistry.

In particular the fluctuations of the pulse in fevers and inflammations were better understood, and accurately registered; and we can scarcely realize now that before Harvey the time of the pulse seems not to have been counted by the watch.

The part of the pancreas in digestion also is better understood.

The conditions of diet and digestion in children are now far better understood, and many of their maladies, formerly regarded as organic or incomprehensible, are cured or prevented by dietetic rules.

He, however, soon realized that the charters of one town can only be understood by comparing them with those of other towns, and he was gradually led to continue the work which Augustin Thierry had broadly outlined in his studies on the Tiers Etat.

Of metaphysics proper Voltaire neither then nor at any other time understood anything, and the subject, like every other, merely served him as a pretext for laughing at religion with the usual reservation of a tolerably affirmative deism.

The Egyptians understood the use of incense as symbolical of the purification of the soul by prayer.

It was imperative that everyone understood the rules so that this would not happen again.

Kolbe was a very successful teacher, a ready and vigorous writer, and a brilliant experimentalist whose work revealed the nature of many compounds the composition of which had not previously been understood.

It will be readily understood from the above account of the process of production that optical glass, relatively to other kinds of glass, is very expensive, the actual price varying from 3s.

The term flint-glass is now understood to mean a glass composed of the silicates of potash and lead.

The metals to be referred to are always understood to be given in the compact (frozen) condition, and that, wherever metals are enumerated as being similarly attacked, the degree of readiness in the action is indicated by the order in which the several members are named - the more readily changed metal always standing first.

Some crystallizers are made entirely cylindrical, and are connected to the condenser of the vacuum pan; in order to maintain a partial vacuum in them, some are fitted with cold-water pipes to cool them and with steam pipes to heat them, and some are left open to the atmosphere at the top. But the efficiency of all depends on the process of almost imperceptible yet continuous evaporation and the methodical addition of syrup, and not on the idiosyncrasies of the experts who manage them; and there is no doubt that in large commercial processes of manufacture the simpler the apparatus used for obtaining a desired result, and the more easily it is understood, the better it will be for the manufacturer.

In former days, when refining sugar or " sugar baking " was supposed to be a mystery only understood by a few of the initiated, there was a place in the refinery called the " secret room," and this name is still used in some refineries, where, however, it applies not to any room, but to a small copper cistern, constructed with five or six or more divisions or small canals, into which all the charcoal cisterns discharge their liquors by pipes led up from them to the top of the cistern.

The treatment and solution of these problems is what is called " philosophy " in the strict sense of the word, which for that reason coincides with methodology speculatively understood.

From the above account it will be understood that not one of the four chief soil constituents is in itself of value for the growth of crops, yet when they are mixed, as they usually are in the soils met with in nature, one corrects the deficiencies of the other.

The same process was used for centuries after Pliny, but its rationale was not understood.

Menshikov understood perfectly the principles on which Peter's reforms were conducted, and was the right hand of the tsar in all his gigantic undertakings.

They seem to have understood them at once, and, like much else Roman, to have made them their own with out material change.

He understood the intention of Mahomet as to foreign nations, and set himself resolutely to carry it out in the face of much difficulty.

For the man of the towns its vocabulary was too copious to be easily understood, and in the age of linguistic studies many commentaries were written to explain words and idioms.

Chemistry proper was not understood, but Arabian writings on alchemy led Europe to it later.

He was fanatically devoted to the Constitution as he understood that document, and in his course during the war he was not, as his enemies asserted, trying to aid the Confederates, but merely desirous of restoring "the Union as it was."

It is likely that the name was differently understood in different periods and.

The alternate increase and diminution of volume is easily understood in forms with flexible zooecia.

Each of the members of this series is one degree more special than the member before it, and depends upon the facts of all the members preceding it, and cannot be fully understood without them.

His first wife, who died at Oxford on the 15th of February 1553, was disinterred in 1551 and tried for heresy; legal evidence was not forthcoming because witnesses had not understood her tongue; and instead of the corpse being burnt, it was merely cast on a dunghill in the stable of the dean of Christ Church.

The life of Martineau was so essentially the life of the thinker, and was so typical of the century in which he lived and the society within which he moved, that he can be better understood through his spoken mind than through his outward history.

But it has to be clearly understood that there is here no mention of a flowergarden in the Occidental sense of the term.

By the term archaic is to be understood the pure Japanese language of earliest times, and by the term classical the quasi-Chinese language which came into use for literary purposes when Japan appropriated the civilization of her great neighbors.

Newspapers, as the term is understood in the West, did not exist in old Japan, though block-printed leaflets were occasionally issued to describe some specially stirring event.

Pictures, as the term is understood in.

From the time when they began to cast bronze statues, Japanese experts understood how to employ a hollow, removable core round which the metal was run in a skin just thick enough for strength without waste of material; and they also understood the use of wax for modelling purposes.

From these doorways, generally left open, the interior light is principally obtained, windows, as the term is generally understood, being rare.

In short, the little chisel becomes in his fingers a painters brush, and when it is remembered that, the basis upon which he works being simply a thread of silk, his hand must be trained to such delicacy of muscular effort as to be capable of arresting the edge of the knile at varying depths within the diameter of the tiny filament, the difficulty of the achievement will be understood.

But although the use of the potters wheel had long been understood, the objects produced were simple utensils tc contain offerings of rice, fruit and fish at the austere ceremonials of the Shinto faith, jars for storing seeds, and vessels for commor domestic use.