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explaining - definition and meaning
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adjective explains .verb explain .
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Michael Corkery/The Wall Street Journal A label explaining uses for a signal bell to warn miners of impending danger.
Where Wild West Artifacts Can Be Won 2011
Because you don't get to make over 200 appearances on the MotD sofa wearing a form‑hugging middle-aged-divorcee-in-JD-Weatherspoon-style shiny shirt, with a caption under your name explaining who you are so that younger viewers don't think they're listening to just any dull old gadgie the producer found loitering round a mini-cab office halfan hour before the lights went up, unless you can say things like "And he takes it with aplomb" with, well, aplomb.
Paul Lambert needs lessons in the lexicon of the football club | Harry Pearson 2011
Each item will have a tag explaining its origin and significance, and it will likely take several years to completely divest.
msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011
In the sixteenth century the application of a term explaining celestial movements to political movements on the earth was natural.
REVOLUTION FELIX GILBERT 1968
These were so natural as to require a label explaining this; but I would remind all workers in taxidermy that there is no useful end gained by modelling small stones; a great amount of labour is wasted, and the intention of modelling -- which is to replace the great weight of large stones by extraordinary lightness -- is completely overlooked.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne
Some indeed there are, who, by perverting the established signification of words, (which they call explaining ) have ventured to expunge all there doctrines out of the scriptures, for no other reason than that they are not able to comprehend them; and argue thus: — The scriptures are the word of
A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. 1704-1787 1776
The Federal Trade Commission estimates that one in eight fur-trimmed garments lack a label explaining the source of the fur, Ma said.
Home By CATHY BUSSEWITZ 2010
The Federal Trade Commission estimates that one in eight fur-trimmed garments lack a label explaining the source of the fur, Ma said.
MercedSun-Star.com: front 2010
Since her recent attack on the CIA Nancy Pellozi is back peddling hard in explaining her comments after the facts were thrown in her face.
Nancy Pelozzi 2009
Litlove this is a wonderful post, so lucid and succinct in explaining a zen approach.
Zen and Learning « Tales from the Reading Room 2010
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