Sentence examples for understood to mean from inspiring English sources

The boy waved his hand and nodded, a gesture I understood to mean "All of them".

"Meshugene kop!" she would shout (which we understood to mean "stupid head").

It was widely understood to mean keeping a record of the websites that you visit.

That provision was understood to mean that active homosexuals could not serve.

"Strapping young buck," in Mr. Reagan's day, was widely understood to mean black.

At dinnertime, the words Greek, Chinese and Italian are understood to mean cuisines, not languages.

The last point is usually understood to mean disarming Israel, especially of nuclear weapons.

Today, Mr. Yassky said, a T in a circle is widely understood to mean taxi.

The opening bars of the first movement, for example, are marked "con amabilità," understood to mean genial or good-natured.

But the statement could easily be understood to mean that healthy animals are never euthanized in the U.S.

Fab was so well understood to mean "fabulous" that ad execs used it as the name of a detergent.