Definitions
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- adjective Of something that
explains . - verb Present participle of
explain .
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Examples
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Michael Corkery/The Wall Street Journal A label explaining uses for a signal bell to warn miners of impending danger.
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Because you don't get to make over 200 appearances on the MotD sofa wearing a form‑hugging middle-aged-divorcee-in-JD-Weatherspoon-style shiny shirt, with a caption under your name explaining who you are so that younger viewers don't think they're listening to just any dull old gadgie the producer found loitering round a mini-cab office halfan hour before the lights went up, unless you can say things like "And he takes it with aplomb" with, well, aplomb.
Paul Lambert needs lessons in the lexicon of the football club | Harry Pearson 2011
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Each item will have a tag explaining its origin and significance, and it will likely take several years to completely divest.
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In the sixteenth century the application of a term explaining celestial movements to political movements on the earth was natural.
REVOLUTION FELIX GILBERT 1968
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These were so natural as to require a label explaining this; but I would remind all workers in taxidermy that there is no useful end gained by modelling small stones; a great amount of labour is wasted, and the intention of modelling -- which is to replace the great weight of large stones by extraordinary lightness -- is completely overlooked.
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Some indeed there are, who, by perverting the established signification of words, (which they call explaining) have ventured to expunge all there doctrines out of the scriptures, for no other reason than that they are not able to comprehend them; and argue thus: — The scriptures are the word of
A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. 1704-1787 1776
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The Federal Trade Commission estimates that one in eight fur-trimmed garments lack a label explaining the source of the fur, Ma said.
Home By CATHY BUSSEWITZ 2010
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The Federal Trade Commission estimates that one in eight fur-trimmed garments lack a label explaining the source of the fur, Ma said.
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Since her recent attack on the CIA Nancy Pellozi is back peddling hard in explaining her comments after the facts were thrown in her face.
Nancy Pelozzi 2009
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Litlove this is a wonderful post, so lucid and succinct in explaining a zen approach.
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