understand

en-verb

understand (third-person singular simple present understands, present participle understanding, simple past and past participle understood)

understands (present singular third-person)
understanding (participle present)
understood (participle past)
understood (past)
understand (infinitive)

[ˌʌɾ̃ɚˈstæ̃nd]

[ˌʌɾ̃ɚˈsteə̯nd]

From Middle English understanden, from Old English understandan (“to understand”), from Proto-West Germanic *understandan (“to stand between, understand”), from Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, understand”), equivalent to Old English under- (“between, inter-”) + standan (“to stand”) (Modern English under- + stand). Cognate with Old Frisian understonda (“to understand, experience, learn”), Old High German understantan (“to understand”), Middle Danish understande (“to understand”). Compare also Saterland Frisian understunda, unnerstounde (“to dare, survey, measure”), Dutch onderstaan (“to undertake, presume”), German unterstehen (“to be subordinate”).

cog

LAUNE: Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I'll but lean, and my staff understands me.
SPEED: It stands under thee, indeed.
LAUNCE:Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:

(humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.


base

en-noun

base (countable and uncountable, plural bases)

acid

antonym(s) of “chemical compound that will neutralize an alkali”

From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.

أَسَاس

something from which other things extend

(acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.

alamies

acrobatics, cheerleading: person who supports the flyer


base

en-verb

base (third-person singular simple present bases, present participle basing, simple past and past participle based)

bases (present singular third-person)
basing (participle present)
based (participle past)
based (past)

Apart from time taken out during radio- and chemotherapy, Maurs continued to participate in POW. She would base a flyer in a double balance and make the audience laugh with her clowning antics for two more shows.

2005, John T. Warren, Laura B. Lengel, Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context, →ISBN, page 73:

(acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.


flyer

→ Finnish: flaijeri

→ French: flyer

→ German: Flyer

→ Korean: 플라이어 (peullaieo)

→ Portuguese: flyer

From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).
With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.

طَيَّار

someone who pilots or rides in an airplane

Coordinate term: base

(acrobatics, cheerleading, synchronized swimming) A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.


oversplit

(gymnastics, acrobatics) Any split in which the angle formed by the legs measures greater than 180 degrees. Can be done to the front with either or both legs elevated, or in a straddle split with one or both legs elevated, or with a standing leg lift

ylispagaatti

split in which the angle formed by the legs exceeds 180 degrees


understander

He was a strongman and an understander for the acrobats.

(circus, acrobatics) One who physically supports a formation of acrobats, as a human pyramid.


kip up

kip up (third-person singular simple present kips up, present participle kipping up, simple past and past participle kipped up)

kips up (present singular third-person)
kipping up (participle present)
kipped up (participle past)
kipped up (past)

(sports, acrobatics) To perform a kip-up manoeuvre.