to disambiguate
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7.7
- verb
- /dɪsˈæmbɪɡweɪt/
:
desambiguar
- Teachers often disambiguate instructions to ensure that all students understand the assignment.
Often times people don't disambiguate those, right?
- Often times people don't disambiguate those, right?
- We don't have good data to disambiguate those two right now.
- First of all, this idea that they can't, that that's that they now here's where disambiguating is the enemy, right?
- But then you can start to then what, try to disambiguate, like what the miss the fact that certain colors are missing, What does that mean?
Examples
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To help your readers, you should always disambiguate the key terms in your writing.
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In legal documents, it is important to disambiguate any vague language to avoid misunderstandings.
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The authors do not disambiguate the various causes of similar outcomes.
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That's how you would disambiguate the sign, right?
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We don't have good data to disambiguate those two right now.
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A major area of research has been exploring the use of identifiers to disambiguate names.
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The first part of the paper develops a framework explaining the need to disambiguate user inquiries to improve information systems and services.
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I'm not convinced disambiguating "efficiency" is what is holding law firms back.
Blog text (1) -
Disambiguating human inquiries, either in a semantic or lexical approach, is an essential process to consider in developing information systems and services.
Academic text (2014) -
The second aspect deals with refining the inquiry scope (reducing search space on the system side) by disambiguating user needs already represented.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
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2.8
To make something easy to understand
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3.3
To make something clear so others can understand it
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2.3
To explain something so people understand it
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3.7
To say something again in different words to make it clearer
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2.7
Say or write something so people have no doubt
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5.1
To make something easier to understand by removing mystery or confusion
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7.4
To explain something clearly in detail
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3.3
That helps people understand something more clearly
To state something again more clearly
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
disambiguate = ambiguate (semi-transparent) = dis + ambigu + ate
The meaning is fairly inferable as reversing or removing ambiguity from 'ambiguate', but the Latinate pattern is not highly accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Disambiguate comes from the parts dis- 'not' and ambiguous 'unclear or having more than one meaning'. So to disambiguate is to 'make not unclear' — to remove doubt and say something clearly.