to explain
41explain — verb 1》 make (something) clear by providing more detail. 2》 give a reason or justification for. ↘(explain oneself) excuse or justify one s behaviour. ↘(explain something away) minimize the significance of something embarrassing by giving… …
42explain yourself — 1) to tell someone who is angry with you why you did something You have ten seconds to explain yourself! 2) to tell someone what you mean in a clear way that they can easily understand You ll have to explain yourself more clearly …
43explain — ex•plain [[t]ɪkˈspleɪn[/t]] v. t. 1) to make clear or intelligible 2) to make known in detail 3) to make clear the cause or reason of; account for: I cannot explain his strange behavior[/ex] 4) to give an explanation 5) phv explain away, to… …
44explain — [15] To explain a matter is literally to ‘make it plain’. The word comes from Latin explānāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix ex and the adjective plānus ‘flat’ (source of English plain). This originally meant ‘flatten out, make …
45explain away — transitive verb Date: 1704 1. to get rid of by or as if by explanation 2. to minimize the significance of by or as if by explanation < explains his faults, but does not try to explain them away M. K. Spears > …
46Explain Plan — An explain plan is a feature provided by the majority of relational databases. When the database engine is provided with an SQL statement it computes the access path used to execute the query. This is used for troubleshooting performance issues… …
47explain — verb /ɛkˈspleɪn,ɪkˈspleɪn/ a) To give a sufficiently detailed report about (a) the reason for something, about why something happened, about a causal chain of events; about (b) how something works, about how elements in a system interact; about… …
48explain — Synonyms and related words: absolve, account, account for, acquit, aid, allegorize, analyze, answer, bottom, break down, clarify, clear, clear the way, clear up, condone, construe, crack, cry sour grapes, debug, decipher, decode, define,… …
49explain away — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To conceal or make light of a fault or offense: extenuate, gloss over, gloze (over), palliate, sleek over, whitewash. See SHOW. II verb See EXPLAIN …
50explain away — PHRASAL VERB If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault. [V P n (not pron)] He evaded her questions about the war and tried to… …
