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• Can you explain that again? • Let me just clarify what I mean here. • Your responsibilities are clearly defined in the contract. • Your contract will set out the terms of your employment. • The terms of the statute are set forth in Section I, Article 3. • They sent me a letter spelling out the details of the agreement. Bilingual Dictionaries • English–Dutch Dutch–English • English–French French–English • English–German German–English • English–Indonesian Indonesian–English • English–Italian Italian–English • English–Japanese Japanese–English • English–Norwegian Norwegian–English • English–Polish Polish–English • English–Portuguese Portuguese–English • English–Spanish Spanish–English

Gordon Brown's Treasury must explain why eight UK government departments have recently been criticised by auditors for weak financial control. One might expect that Marx would go on to explain in some detail what communism would be like. Natural and statutory law, a sense of justice, and logic explain why people seek redress for wrongs suffered. My wife will then have to explain the situation to another helpful city employee. This insight goes a long way to explain why the war ended as it did, with a whimper rather than a bang. Pete goes on to explain in detail exactly how to achieve all this for consistent accuracy. Can evolution explain the earthworm's activities of loosening, stirring up and aerating the soil to make it more fertile? Call the company, explain the situation and give an estimate of the time you will arrive. So to explain these events it is necessary to examine the entire geological record. Actually, it's the missing bits of story you're supposed to fill in that winds me up, but I lack the wherewithal to explain why. Different versions of endosymbiotic theory have been presented in the literature to explain the origin of eukaryotes and their mitochondria. Our trial does not explain the observed benefits, and we did not monitor medical aftercare. It's all the more extraordinary that kawanatanga was minted back in 1840 to explain a King of Judea who lived 2000 years ago. The results explain why the Windsor knot is wider than the four-in-hand knot. He could a...

/ɛkˈspleɪn/ Other forms: explained; explains; explaining To explain something is to define it, show how it works, or just tell what it is. Explaining helps people understand. If you know football really well, then you could probably explain it to a non-fan. Explaining makes things clearer. A lot of teaching is explaining — telling how something works. Also, if you do something wrong, people will ask you to explain your actions. Explaining can help someone "get it" — whatever "it" is. Vocabulary is key to performing well on Common Core-aligned tests for English Language Arts as well as for building literacy in social studies, science, and technical subjects. This collection features common tier-2 words that are taught and tested at every grade level. These words are used in a variety of contexts, exhibit different shades of meaning based on those contexts, and appear commonly in classroom instruction and on standardized assessments. Here are links to our lists for the collection:

6. See SYNONYMS 1. explicate. explain, elucidate, expound, interpret imply making the meaning of something clear or understandable. To explain is to make plain, clear, or intelligible something that is not known or understood: to explain a theory or a problem. To elucidate is to throw light on what before was dark and obscure, usually by illustration and commentary and sometimes by elaborate explanation: They asked him to elucidate his statement. To expound is to give a methodical, detailed, scholarly explanation of something, usually Scriptures, doctrines, or philosophy: to expound the doctrine of free will. To interpret is to give the meaning of something by paraphrase, by translation, or by an explanation based on personal opinion: to interpret a poem or a symbol. 4. justify. ANTONYMS 1. confuse. I had a meeting with him and explained the situation. • American English: ɪksˈpleɪn/ • Arabic: يَشْرَحُ • Brazilian Portuguese: explicar-se • Chinese: • Croatian: objasniti • Czech: vysvětlit • Danish: forklare • Dutch: uitleggen • European Spanish: • Finnish: selittää • French: • German: • Greek: εξηγώ • Italian: • Japanese: 説明する • Korean: • Norwegian: forklare • Polish: wyjaśnić • European Portuguese: • Romanian: a explica • Russian: объяснять • Spanish: • Swedish: förklara • Thai: อธิบาย • Turkish: açıklamak • Ukrainian: пояснювати • Vietnamese: giải thích