explain a word

  • 1Word of Honor (1985 novel) — Infobox Book | name = Word of Honor title orig = translator = image caption = First Print Cover author = Nelson DeMille illustrator = cover artist = Gene Light country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Warner… …

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  • 2explain */*/*/ — UK [ɪkˈspleɪn] / US verb Word forms explain : present tense I/you/we/they explain he/she/it explains present participle explaining past tense explained past participle explained 1) a) [transitive] to tell someone something in a way that helps… …

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  • 3Word-sense disambiguation — Disambiguation redirects here. For other uses, see Disambiguation (disambiguation). In computational linguistics, word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an open problem of natural language processing, which governs the process of identifying which… …

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  • 4word — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 unit of language ADJECTIVE ▪ two letter, three letter, etc. ▪ monosyllabic, polysyllabic ▪ two syllable, three syllable …

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  • 5word — word1 W1S1 [wə:d US wə:rd] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(unit of language)¦ 2 somebody s words 3 have a word 4 want a word 5 not hear/understand/believe a word 6 without (saying) a word 7 say a word/say a few words 8 a word of warning/caution/advice/thanks etc 9… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 6word — 1 noun LANGUAGE/STH YOU SAY OR WRITE 1 (C) the smallest unit of language that people can understand if it is said or written on its own: Write an essay of about five hundred words. | There were a lot of words in the film I couldn t understand. |… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 7explain*/*/*/ — [ɪkˈspleɪn] verb 1) [T] to tell someone something in a way that helps them to understand it better The doctor explained the risks to me before the operation.[/ex] I will try to explain how a car engine works.[/ex] He explained that he would be… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 8explain away — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms explain away : present tense I/you/we/they explain away he/she/it explains away present participle explaining away past tense explained away past participle explained away to tell someone about something in a… …

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  • 9explain — 01. I didn t really understand the math problem at first, but my friend [explained] it to me, and now it seems pretty clear. 02. Do you have a good [explanation] for why you weren t home last night at midnight? 03. There are many [unexplainable]… …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 10explain — [15] To explain a matter is literally to ‘make it plain’. The word comes from Latin expletive 204 explānāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix ex and the adjective plānus ‘flat’ (source of English plain). This originally meant… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins