ELABORATE
\ɪlˈabəɹˌe͡ɪt], \ɪlˈabəɹˌeɪt], \ɪ_l_ˈa_b_ə_ɹ_ˌeɪ_t]\
Definitions of ELABORATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
By Princeton University
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add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
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To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
By Oddity Software
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Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
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To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
By Noah Webster.
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To produce with labor; to work out with great care; improve or refine with study or labor.
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Highly finished; complicated.
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Elaborately.
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Elaborateness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Elaborately.
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Elaborateness.
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To labor on: to produce with labor: to take pains with: to improve by successive operations.
By Daniel Lyons
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Elaborately.
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Elaborateness.
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To produce by thorough and careful work.
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Developed with thoroughness or exactness.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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