Explained vs Responded - What's the difference?
explained | responded |
(explain)
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=, volume=100, issue=2, page=106
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, title= To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
(respond)
(intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response; to accord.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Robert M. Pringle
, title=How to Be Manipulative
, volume=100, issue=1, page=31
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(ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
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To satisfy; to answer.
A response.
A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
(architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
As verbs the difference between explained and responded
is that explained is (explain) while responded is (respond).explained
English
Verb
(head)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, elaborateresponded
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----respond
English
Verb
(en verb)- to respond to a question or an argument
citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds .}}
- For his great deeds respond his speeches great.
- The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.