Explain vs Yell - What's the difference?
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To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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, title= To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
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, title= (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
to convey by shouting
A shout.
A phrase to be shouted.
* 1912 , The Michigan Alumnus (volume 18, page 152)
Explain is a related term of yell.
As verbs the difference between explain and yell
is that explain is to make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of while yell is shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.As a noun yell is
a shout.As an adjective yell is
(ulster) dry (of cow).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.
Synonyms
* (give a sufficiently detailed report) expound, elaborateyell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) yellen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He yelled directions to the party from the car.
Synonyms
* (shout) call, cry, holler, shout * See alsoDerived terms
() * yell at * yell silently * yellerUsage notes
To yell at' someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell ' to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.Noun
(en noun)- After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells , which transported us all in mind and feelings