explainer
- noun
- /ɪkˈspleɪnər/
- Literature
- For a concise overview, you should read the explainer on climate change provided by the environmental organization.
- a helpful explainer
- a good explainer
Could you give us just a quick explainer on what Invest America is?
- Could you give us just a quick explainer on what Invest America is?
- And we've decided to cover some of the points, the questions, the more controversial areas in this explainer reaction response.
- That's maybe we're doing the storytelling, but like more explainer videos or where we at.
Examples
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The teacher created an engaging explainer video to help students understand the topic.
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(Adam Doster wrote an excellent explainer for Progress Illinois in 2010.)
Blog text (7) -
Behind the glass, the explainer held up a sign: "T-A-L-K."
Fiction book (1999) -
Could you give us just a quick explainer on what Invest America is?
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And they make short explainer videos that engage people not only in disseminating information, but entertaining them as well.
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Der Spiegel's Sven Bll and Anne Seith have published a good explainer about the situation.
Blog text (1) -
This article serves as a clear explainer on the new healthcare policies that will take effect next year.
Synonyms
A statement that makes something clear or helps someone understand
A clear explanation of an idea or subject that makes it easy to understand
An explanation that makes something clear and easy to understand
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Explainer comes from explain, from old words meaning 'make plain', like the English word plain. That's why an explainer is often a short article or video that 'makes a topic clear' quickly.