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Workup vs Elaborate - What's the difference?

workup | elaborate |

As a noun workup

is a general medical examination to assess a person health and fitness.

As an adjective elaborate is

highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

As a verb elaborate is

(used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about).

workup

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) a general medical examination to assess a person health and fitness
  • (chemistry) all the additional procedures / reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product

    • elaborate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
  • :
  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
  • :
  • *
  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

    • Verb

    (elaborat)
  • (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) To give further detail or explanation (about).
    • What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate ?
    Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?