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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
explain
v 1: make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of
physics to his students" [syn: explain, explicate]
2: define; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising
to the Dean"
3: serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to
sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her
recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
[syn: excuse, explain]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Explain \Ex*plain"\ ([e^]ks*pl[=a]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Explained([e^]ks*pl[=a]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Explaining.]
[L. explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out +
plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF.
esplaner, explaner. See Plain,a., and cf. Esplanade.]
1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.]
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The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its
leaf. --Evelyn.
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2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of
obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the
meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
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Commentators to explain the difficult passages to
you. --Gay.
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To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those
explain the meaning quite away." --Pope.
Syn: To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Explain \Ex*plain"\, v. i.
To give an explanation.
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Thesaurus Results for Explain:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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