They are going to understand the meaning by the words.

"Tell me what you understand by the action of seeing."

She understood each word by itself, but together they made no sense at all.

We only understand the great laws of nature by effects.

If she didn't understand by this time, he wasn't going to try to explain it to her again.

In your own words, explain what you understand by 'personal service'.

I cannot understand the attacks against by people that don't even know me.

You have to understand that by 1960, I was entirely cut off from the rest of the town.

It was well received, though not always understood by the public.

Immediately took rather longer than we would normally understand by the word.