different between foresee vs apprehend
foresee
English
Etymology
From Middle English foreseen, forseen, from Old English fores?on; equivalent to fore- +? see. Similar formations in Dutch voorzien, German vorsehen, Latin pr?vide?.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /f???si/
- (UK) IPA(key): /f???si?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Verb
foresee (third-person singular simple present foresees, present participle foreseeing, simple past foresaw, past participle foreseen)
- To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter:
- "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
- 1838, Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter:
- (obsolete) To provide.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
- Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
Derived terms
- foreseeable
Translations
See also
- forsee
- unforeseen
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apprehend
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French apprehender (compare modern French appréhender), from Latin apprehendere. Compare Spanish aprehender.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æ.p?i?h?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
apprehend (third-person singular simple present apprehends, present participle apprehending, simple past and past participle apprehended)
- (transitive, archaic) To take or seize; to take hold of.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness
- We have two hands to apprehend it.
- (transitive, law enforcement) To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness
- (transitive) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
- 1858, William Ewart Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age
- The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- (transitive) To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
- (intransitive) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
- (intransitive) To be apprehensive; to fear.
- c. 1700, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Characters: Or, the Manners of the Age (originally by Jean de La Bruyère)
- It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
- c. 1700, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Characters: Or, the Manners of the Age (originally by Jean de La Bruyère)
Usage notes
To apprehend, comprehend. These words come into comparison as describing acts of the mind. Apprehend denotes the laying hold of a thing mentally, so as to understand it clearly, at least in part. Comprehend denotes the embracing or understanding it in all its compass and extent. We may apprehend many truths which we do not comprehend. The very idea of God supposes that He may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. We may apprehend much of Shakespeare's aim and intention in the character of Hamlet or King Lear; but few will claim that they have comprehended all that is embraced in these characters. --Trench.
(material dates from 1913)
Synonyms
- catch, seize, arrest, detain, capture, conceive, understand, imagine, believe, fear, dread
Derived terms
- apprehension
- misapprehend
Translations
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