Found 4 items, similar to explain.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: explain
menjelaskan
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: explain
memaparkan, membabarkan, membayankan, membeberkan, membentangkan, mencuraikan, menerangkan, mengulas, menjelaskan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: explain
explain
v 1: make palin and comprehensible;
“He explained the laws of
physics to his students” [syn:
explicate]
2: define;
“The committe 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 amy explain her reluctance to date
again” [syn:
excuse]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Explain
Explain
\Ex*plain"\, v. i.
To give an explanation.
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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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