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
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
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson
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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