Explain

  • (verb): Make palin and comprehensible.
    Synonyms: explicate
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on explain:

Competitive Altruism
... of reciprocal altruism can be used to explain behaviors that are performed by a donor who receives some sort of benefit in the future ... is received, however, reciprocity fails to explain altruistic behavior ... To explain competitive altruism, Roberts uses the example of preening among birds ...
Berlin Chair - Track Listing
... Berlin Chair" - 234 "Can't Explain" - 210 "Jaimme (Makers Mark Version)" - 240 "All I Want To Do Is Rock" - 542 All songs by Tim Rogers, except 2 (Pete Townshend) and 4 (Ross Wilson) "Can't Explain" is a cover of ...
Anomalous Photovoltaic Effect - Existing Models
... Among the first attempts to explain the APE were few that treated the film as a single entity, such as considering the variation of sample thickness along its length or a non-uniform ... studies that followed generally supported models that explain the effect as resulting from a series of microelements contributing additively to the net ... The more popular models used to explain the photovoltage are reviewed below ...
La-La-La-Lies - Personnel
... vocals on "A Legal Matter" Additional musicians Perry Ford – piano on "I Can't Explain" Nicky Hopkins – piano (except on "I Can't Explain") The Ivy League ...
Creationist Objections To Evolution - Plausibility - Unexplained Aspects of The Natural World
... frequently argued that a great weakness of evolutionary theory is that it does not, or cannot, explain a certain aspect of the natural world ... argue that evolution should be abandoned altogether because of the phenomena it does not explain ... alternative explanation, such as intelligent design, can explain the things which evolution cannot ...

More definitions of "explain":

  • (verb): Serve as a reason or cause or justification of.
    Example: "Her recent divorce amy explain her reluctance to date again"
    Synonyms: excuse
  • (verb): Define.
    Example: "The committe explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean"

Famous quotes containing the word explain:

    You say you are incapable of expressing your thought. How then do you explain the lucidity and brilliance with which you are expressing the thought that you are incapable of thought?
    Jacques Rivière (1886–1925)

    The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
    Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

    How else can I explain those rainbows when there is no rain, it’s magic.
    Sammy Cahn (1913–1993)