different between understanding vs concordance

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nd??stand??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nd??stænd??/
• Rhymes: -ænd??
• Hyphenation: un?der?stand?ing

Noun

understanding (countable and uncountable, plural understandings) (with of, but with for in sense of "sympathy")

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.
2. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
3. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.

4. (countable) An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
   1. An informal contract; mutual agreement.

   2. A reconciliation of differences.

5. (uncountable) Sympathy.

Derived terms

• peace that passeth understanding

Translations

See also

• intellection

Adjective

understanding (comparative more understanding, superlative most understanding)

1. Showing compassion.
2. (dated) Knowing; skilful.

Translations

Verb

understanding

1. present participle of understand

See Wiktionary:Concordances for Wiktionary's guide to concordances

English

Alternative forms

• concordaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: con?cor?dance
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?k??d?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?n?k??d?ns/

Noun

concordance (countable and uncountable, plural concordances)

1. Agreement; accordance; consonance.

   Synonyms: accordance, agreement, consonance
2. (grammar, obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.

   Synonyms: agreement, concord

3. An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
   • c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,

4. (computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

Translations

See also

• KWIC (“keyword in context”)
• Category:Concordances

Further reading

• concordance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.k??.d??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

concordance f (plural concordances)

1. accord, agreement, accordance, concurrence, consonance, concord

Derived terms

• concordance des temps