Comprehension
noun
The ability to understand something.
Reading comprehension is a very important part of learning a language.
Often appears as...
- reading comprehension
- comprehension skills
noun
The range of something that can be understood.
This topic is beyond my comprehension.
Often appears as...
- beyond comprehension
- within comprehension
noun
A test to evaluate one's understanding of a particular text.
I did well on the comprehension portion of the English test.
Often appears as...
- comprehension exam
- comprehension test
Usage tips
Academic
noun
The ability to understand something.
Reading comprehension is a very important part of learning a language.
Often appears as...
- reading comprehension
- comprehension skills
noun
The range of something that can be understood.
This topic is beyond my comprehension.
Often appears as...
- beyond comprehension
- within comprehension
noun
A test to evaluate one's understanding of a particular text.
I did well on the comprehension portion of the English test.
Often appears as...
- comprehension exam
- comprehension test
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Inference Needed
Understanding might require reading between the lines or grasping implied meanings.
Good comprehension often means catching the humor in a subtle joke.
Pro Tip 2/3Listening Skills
Comprehension includes listening carefully to grasp spoken language intricacies.
Her comprehension of the lecture was evident in her detailed notes.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Nuances
Understanding may involve awareness of cultural references and idiomatic expressions.
Comprehension of English slang can be challenging for learners.
Pro Tip 1/3Inference Needed
Understanding might require reading between the lines or grasping implied meanings.
Good comprehension often means catching the humor in a subtle joke.
Pro Tip 2/3Listening Skills
Comprehension includes listening carefully to grasp spoken language intricacies.
Her comprehension of the lecture was evident in her detailed notes.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Nuances
Understanding may involve awareness of cultural references and idiomatic expressions.
Comprehension of English slang can be challenging for learners.
Pro Tip 1/3Inference Needed
Understanding might require reading between the lines or grasping implied meanings.
Good comprehension often means catching the humor in a subtle joke.
Pro Tip 2/3Listening Skills
Comprehension includes listening carefully to grasp spoken language intricacies.
Her comprehension of the lecture was evident in her detailed notes.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Nuances
Understanding may involve awareness of cultural references and idiomatic expressions.
Comprehension of English slang can be challenging for learners.
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The great brain debate -...
He reasoned that since the regions for speech production and comprehension were not adjacent, then injuring the area connecting them might result in a special type of language loss, now known as receptive aphasia. Wernicke's connectionist model helped explain disorders that didn't result from the dysfunction of just one area.
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How to teach kids to...
We don't start by giving them books. We start by breaking down words into letters and sounds and we encourage them to practice their fluency by reading every single day, with a partner or with their friends. And we give them lots of comprehension questions to make sure that they're understanding what they're reading.
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Mary's Room: A...
Could it be that there are fundamental limits to what we can know about something we can't experience? And would this mean there are certain aspects of the universe that lie permanently beyond our comprehension? Or will science and philosophy allow us to overcome our mind's limitations?
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It’s time to embrace our...
the hard part of teaching is not knowing your script it's understanding whether or not anything that you're saying is getting through and we have evolved in a way over millions of years that these marvelous cues for communicating comprehension or confusion that are lost
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Nicholas Negroponte...
include teachers saying they have never loved teaching so much, and reading comprehension measured by third parties -- not by us -- skyrockets. Probably the most important thing we see is children teaching parents.
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The Smartest Parrots in...
-What would you do if you got a peanut? -Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Even though Einstein's ability to mimic is impressive, Irene still thinks that Griffin is top of the class when it comes to comprehension.
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Stephen Petranek: 10...
And that is not something that is beyond comprehension at this point. It'll also help us a lot, if we meet an advanced civilization along the way, if we're trying to be an advanced civilization. Number eight --
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James Balog: Time-lapse...
Most of the time, art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. There is great confusion when the two look at each other. Art, of course, looks at the world through the psyche,
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Time-lapse proof of...
most of the time art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual in comprehension there is great confusion when the two look at each other art of course looks at the world through the psyche the
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Earth's First Rocks PIPE...
talking about time spans that are beyond comprehension for instance in this rock here there are zircon crystals that are one third of the age of the universe
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The great brain debate -...
He reasoned that since the regions for speech production and comprehension were not adjacent, then injuring the area connecting them might result in a special type of language loss, now known as receptive aphasia. Wernicke's connectionist model helped explain disorders that didn't result from the dysfunction of just one area.
Video examples
How to teach kids to...
We don't start by giving them books. We start by breaking down words into letters and sounds and we encourage them to practice their fluency by reading every single day, with a partner or with their friends. And we give them lots of comprehension questions to make sure that they're understanding what they're reading.
Video examples
Mary's Room: A...
Could it be that there are fundamental limits to what we can know about something we can't experience? And would this mean there are certain aspects of the universe that lie permanently beyond our comprehension? Or will science and philosophy allow us to overcome our mind's limitations?
Video examples
It’s time to embrace our...
the hard part of teaching is not knowing your script it's understanding whether or not anything that you're saying is getting through and we have evolved in a way over millions of years that these marvelous cues for communicating comprehension or confusion that are lost
Video examples
Nicholas Negroponte...
include teachers saying they have never loved teaching so much, and reading comprehension measured by third parties -- not by us -- skyrockets. Probably the most important thing we see is children teaching parents.
Video examples
The Smartest Parrots in...
-What would you do if you got a peanut? -Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Even though Einstein's ability to mimic is impressive, Irene still thinks that Griffin is top of the class when it comes to comprehension.
Video examples
Stephen Petranek: 10...
And that is not something that is beyond comprehension at this point. It'll also help us a lot, if we meet an advanced civilization along the way, if we're trying to be an advanced civilization. Number eight --
Video examples
James Balog: Time-lapse...
Most of the time, art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. There is great confusion when the two look at each other. Art, of course, looks at the world through the psyche,
Video examples
Time-lapse proof of...
most of the time art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual in comprehension there is great confusion when the two look at each other art of course looks at the world through the psyche the
Video examples
Earth's First Rocks PIPE...
talking about time spans that are beyond comprehension for instance in this rock here there are zircon crystals that are one third of the age of the universe
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Tony Buzan
English Author
Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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Richard Quest
English Journalist
I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?
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Mark Frauenfelder
American Journalist
The human-made world is mostly beyond our comprehension. Our daily survival depends on seemingly magical gizmos that provide our food, water, clothing, comfort, transportation, education, well-being, and amusement.
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L. Lionel Kendrick
American Clergyman
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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Will Smith
American Actor
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
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Laura van den Berg
American Writer
It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.
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Matt Duffer
If you were to encounter something from another world or dimension, it would be beyond comprehension.
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Swiss Author
Human life is beyond comprehension.
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Tony Buzan
English Author
Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.
Quote examples
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Quote examples
Richard Quest
English Journalist
I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?
Quote examples
Mark Frauenfelder
American Journalist
The human-made world is mostly beyond our comprehension. Our daily survival depends on seemingly magical gizmos that provide our food, water, clothing, comfort, transportation, education, well-being, and amusement.
Quote examples
L. Lionel Kendrick
American Clergyman
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
Quote examples
Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
Quote examples
Will Smith
American Actor
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
Quote examples
Laura van den Berg
American Writer
It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.
Quote examples
Matt Duffer
If you were to encounter something from another world or dimension, it would be beyond comprehension.
Quote examples
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Swiss Author
Human life is beyond comprehension.
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