Explain : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Explain	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Explain
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
explain v make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students" Synonym(s): explain, explicate define; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean" 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" Synonym(s): excuse, explain
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Explain \Ex*plain"\, v. i. To give an explanation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Explain \Explain"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Explained}; 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.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain* its leaf. --Evelyn. 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. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. --Gay. {To explain away}, to get rid of by explanation. [bd]Those explain the meaning quite away.[b8] --Pope. Syn: To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.