Kind vs. Understanding — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Kind and Understanding
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Kind
A group of people or things having similar characteristics
More data of this kind would be valuable
All kinds of music
Understanding
Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to use concepts to model that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding.
Kind
Each of the elements (bread and wine) of the Eucharist
Communion in both kinds
Understanding
The ability by which one understands; intelligence
Concepts that are beyond the understanding of a child.
Kind
Having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature
He was very kind to me
She was a good, kind woman
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Understanding
The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension
Do you have much understanding of calculus?.
Kind
Having or showing a friendly, generous, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature.
Understanding
Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion
In my understanding, this is a good plan.
Kind
Agreeable or beneficial
A dry climate kind to asthmatics.
Understanding
A usually implicit agreement between two or more people or groups
An understanding between neighbors over late-night noise.
Kind
A group of individuals or instances sharing common traits; a category or sort
Different kinds of furniture.
A new kind of politics.
Understanding
A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy
Can't you show some understanding for the poor child?.
Kind
A doubtful or borderline member of a given category
Fashioned a kind of shelter.
A kind of bluish color.
Understanding
Characterized by or having good sense or compassion
An understanding teacher.
Kind
Underlying character as a determinant of the class to which a thing belongs; nature or essence.
Understanding
The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.
Kind
The natural order or course of things; nature.
Understanding
(countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
Kind
Manner or fashion.
Understanding
(countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too.
Kind
Lineal ancestry or descent.
Understanding
(countable) An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
Kind
Lineal ancestors or descendants considered as a group.
Understanding
An informal contract; mutual agreement.
I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.
Kind
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
What kind of a person are you?
This is a strange kind of tobacco.
Understanding
A reconciliation of differences.
The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.
Kind
A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
The opening served as a kind of window.
Understanding
(uncountable) Sympathy.
He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past.
Kind
(archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
Understanding
Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance.
Kind
(archaic) Family, lineage.
Understanding
(dated) Knowing; skilful.
Kind
(archaic) Manner.
Understanding
Present participle of understand
Kind
Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
Understanding
Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
Kind
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
I'll pay in kind for his insult.
Understanding
The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
Kind
(Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
Understanding
An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people.
Kind
Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
Understanding
The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. The perception of ideas in our mind; 2. The perception of the signification of signs; 3. The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. All these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand.
In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension.
Kind
Affectionate.
A kind man; a kind heart
Understanding
Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which "verstand" is now employed by the Germans.
Kind
Favorable.
Understanding
The cognitive condition of someone who understands;
He has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect
Kind
Mild, gentle, forgiving
The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
Understanding
The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
They had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business
There was an understanding between management and the workers
Kind
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
A horse kind in harness
Understanding
An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion;
His sympathies were always with the underdog
I knew I could count on his understanding
Kind
(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Understanding
The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;
We are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil
Kind
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.
Understanding
Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy;
An understanding friend
Kind
Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,The love he bore to learning was his fault.
Kind
Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil.
O cruel Death, to those you take more kindThan to the wretched mortals left behind.
A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Kind
Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
Kind
Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
Kind
Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
He knew by kind and by no other lore.
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature,Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
Kind
Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
Every kind of beasts, and of birds.
She follows the law of her kind.
Here to sow the seed of bread,That man and all the kinds be fed.
Kind
Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play,And snows his power in variable kinds !
There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers?
Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.
Kind
To beget.
Kind
A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;
Sculpture is a form of art
What kinds of desserts are there?
Kind
Having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior;
Kind to sick patients
A kind master
Kind words showing understanding and sympathy
Thanked her for her kind letter
Kind
Liberal;
Kind words of praise
Kind
Conducive to comfort; beneficial;
The genial sunshine
A kind climate
Hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet
Kind
Expressing sympathy
Kind
Characterized by mercy, and compassion;
Compassionate toward disadvantaged people
Kind to animals
A humane judge
Kind
Agreeable;
A dry climate kind to asthmatics
Kind
Helpful to other people;
Helping an old lady with her bundles was his kind deed for the day
Kind
Tolerant and forgiving under provocation;
Our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke
Kind
Showing consideration and anticipation of needs;
It was thoughtful of you to bring flowers
A neighbor showed thoughtful attention
Kind
Generously responsive;
Good-hearted but inept efforts to help
Take a kindly interest
A kindly gentleman
An openhearted gift to charity
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