prehend-, prehens-

1. To take into custody; arrest: apprehended the murderer.
2. To grasp mentally; understand: a candidate who apprehends the significance of geopolitical issues.
3. To become conscious of, as through the emotions or senses; to perceive.
4. To understand something.

1. Someone who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice).
2. A person who knows or apprehends.

Capable of being understood or apprehended: apprehensible truths.

1. Anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil.
2. Fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; dread.
3. The faculty, ability, or act of apprehending; especially, intuitive understanding; perception on a direct and immediate level.
4. Acceptance of or receptivity to information without passing judgment on its validity, often without complete comprehension.
5. A view, opinion, or idea on any subject.
6. The act of arresting, seizing, or capturing; seizure; arrest.

1. Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy.
2. Uneasy or fearful about something that might happen.
3. Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend or to learn.
4. Perceptive; discerning (usually followed by of).

In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

1. The quality or state of being apprehensive.
2. Fearful expectation or anticipation

1. Someone who is bound by a legal agreement to serve another person for a fixed period of time in order to learn a trade or a business.
2. Any learner or beginner.
3. Etymology: from Old French aprentiz, "someone learning", from aprendre, (Modern French apprendre) "to learn, to teach"; contracted from Latin apprehendere, "to take hold of, to grasp"; from ad-, "to" + prehendere, "to seize".

1. A position as an apprentice: "He obtained an apprenticeship with a carpenter."
2. The period of time when a person is an apprentice: "He served a two-year apprenticeship."

1. To understand the nature or meaning of; to grasp with the mind; to perceive.
2. To take in the meaning, nature, or importance of; to mentally grasp and to understand.
3. To take in or to embrace; to include; to comprise.