Clarification vs Explain - What's the difference?
clarification | explain |
The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities]]; particularly, the clearing or [[fine, fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
The act of freeing from obscurities.
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
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, title= To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, title= (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
As a noun clarification
is the act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities]]; particularly, the clearing or [[fine|fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.As a verb explain is
to make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.clarification
English
Noun
(en noun)- The clarification of wine.
- Your ideas deserve clarification.
Quotations
* 1627 , , Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History in Ten Centuries *: To know the means of accelerating clarification [in liquors] we must know the causes of clarification.References
*See also
* qualification ----explain
English
(Explanation)Verb
(en verb)- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained .
Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
- The horse-chestnut isready to explain its leaf.