Definition of Explain

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Explain

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

To give an explanation.

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Explain Quotations

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Ayn Rand

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Explain Translations

explain in Afrikaans is verklaar, verduidelik
explain in Danish is forklare
explain in Dutch is uiteenzetten, toelichten
explain in French is expliquer, expliquent, expliquons, expliquez
explain in Italian is esporre, dichiarare, commentare
explain in Latin is declaro, demonstro, persolvo
explain in Norwegian is forklare
explain in Portuguese is explique, explicar
explain in Spanish is exponer, aclarar, explicar, elucidar

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