to explicate
3
7.4
- verb
- /ˈɛksplɪˌkeɪt/
- Formal
:
explicar
- The teacher used real-life examples to explicate the complex theory to her students.
- explicate the text
- explicate the meaning
- explicate any theory
Get material that that reinforces or reiterates or explicates what they're talking about.
- Get material that that reinforces or reiterates or explicates what they're talking about.
- All you're going to do is explicate Scripture.
- So when you explicate yourself, you build the structure through which you see the world.
- And the way you do that is identify mechanisms, simpler mechanisms that explicate that behaviour, that that's the task in physics, chemistry, neurobiology.
- So we have to we have to explicate the question of being with regard to its structural moments.
- And that and that those, those objectives, I mean, they exist, they are within us, but we may not be able to explicate them.
Examples
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We indicate the number of examples in each category as we explicate the categories themselves.
Academic text (2015) -
Other research findings further explicated the use of cognates in reading comprehension.
Academic text (2012) -
And I want to explicate what that has meant to me.
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What has changed is how we explicate those values, what their content includes.
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So when you explicate yourself, you build the structure through which you see the world.
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Holding students responsible has not allowed us to explicate all relevant issues.
Academic text (1991) -
Future researchers should seek to better explicate and replicate these findings.
Academic text (2015) -
After listening to lectures, students write about and discuss among classmates course content to explicate their learning.
Academic text (2015) -
Indigenous development, though not easy to explicate, provides more insight into culture and technology than previous explanations have.
Academic text (1995) -
A contextual approach returns to the narrator as the primary source for explicating meaning.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To make something clear by describing it in simple words
248
3.3
To make something clear so others can understand it
225
3.5
To add more details to explain something better
207
3.2
To explain something clearly and in detail
79
3.5
To explain something clearly and in detail
79
4.2
To give more details or explain something more fully
64
4.1
To say the same thing using different words to make it clearer
51
4.8
To make something clear or easier to understand
20
7.3
Explain something in detail so people understand it
11
6.8
To explain something so it is easy to understand
7
5.1
To make something easier to understand by removing mystery or confusion
5
6.8
To describe something clearly and in detail
1
3.3
That helps people understand something more clearly
To explain an idea or meaning in detail
Antonyms
How Detailed
- US
675
3.2
- Formal
3
7.4
∞
1.0
248
3.3
∞
1.6
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Explicate comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and plicare 'to fold', so it means to 'unfold' something, like opening a folded map to show the details; that's why to explicate is to explain an idea clearly and in detail.