elaboration
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4.9
- noun
- /ɪˌlæbəˈreɪʃən/
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elaboración
- Butler's "Contingent Foundations" provides a more lucid elaboration of her feminist Foucauldian "positions" than does Gender Trouble.
- further elaboration
- elaboration of detail
- elaboration of ideas
They're at best sort of elaborations of the understanding.
- They're at best sort of elaborations of the understanding.
- Doesn't need any elaboration does it?
- I want more elaboration on what we have knowing that, but she made it up right?
Examples
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Each survey asked for elaboration if the respondent chose to provide it.
Academic text (1999) -
But it receives a full elaboration in Elizabeth Wohlgast's fine book, The Grammar of Justice.
Academic text (1999) -
May I be so bold as to ask for a little elaboration?
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Stories are designed to be brief (3-5 minutes), so students can focus on elaboration of detail.
Academic text (2013) -
For half the states shown, imagery was included to enhance elaboration and retrieval of state shapes.
Academic text (1999) -
Originality has been explained as conceiving new ideas or solutions, whereas elaboration is the ability to build on other ideas.
Academic text (2011) -
Further study of gender and disabled sport could offer explanations for and elaborations about the gender differences found here.
Academic text (1991) -
Equally important, they represented an extension and elaboration of a still vibrant tradition of Irish-American labor radicalism.
Academic text (1992) -
Often, this explanation prompted the intricate elaboration of home remedies for insomnia.
Fiction book (1999) -
The teacher asked for more elaboration on the student's project to better understand their ideas.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A statement that makes something clear or helps someone understand
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3.3
An explanation that makes something easier to understand
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5.3
The detailed steps you do to solve a problem
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3.9
More detail added to an idea to make it clearer
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5.5
A clear explanation of an idea or subject that makes it easy to understand
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5.6
Giving more detail to make something clearer
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5.3
A clear explanation that makes something easier to understand
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8.1
A clear, detailed explanation that helps you understand a text or idea
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6.5
An explanation that makes something clear and easy to understand
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5.6
Making a difficult idea easier to understand by explaining it clearly
A detailed explanation of an idea or topic, often written
Antonyms
How Detailed
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Morphology
Etymology
Elaboration comes from the Latin parts e- 'out' and labor 'work', the same root as the common word labor. So an elaboration is what you get when someone 'works out' an idea more — they add extra detail or explanation.