Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Serving or intended to explain: an explanatory paragraph.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to explain; containing explanation; of the nature of explanation: as, explanatory notes.
Wiktionary
- adj. Intended to serve as an explanation.
- adj. of a person Disposed to explain.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Serving to explain; containing explanation; as
explanatory notes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. serving or intended to explain or make clear
Examples
“The Dominican Congress added what it called explanatory articles to the law by which it approved the convention but made no change therein.”
“RL is seriously lacking in explanatory mouse-overs.”
“He caught her curious and speculative eyes fixed on his hands, and, being in explanatory mood, he said: — I just come down the Coast on one of the Pacific mail steamers.”
“Convulsion followed convulsion, till they closed in death, without her being able to utter a word explanatory of the fatal scene.”
“Note 69: Bergman dismisses this "so-called 'feminist' literature" as lacking in explanatory power.”
“This analysis shows that the main explanatory factors are their systems of economic organisation together with the institutional framework within which they operate.”
“The choice of autonomous relations in explanatory models is primarily a matter of adequate knowledge and intuition regarding the basic mechanisms of the economy.”
“He caught her curious and speculative eyes fixed on his hands, and, being in explanatory mood, he said: -”
“She was rattling on without affording me the slightest opportunity to slip in a word explanatory, when her glance chanced to fall upon some one who was approaching us through the throng.”
“Page 93 character of Mrs. Thompson, as Dickens does upon the characters which he dreams out; but as we detest the repeated interruptions of a story by long dry homilies from the author, we will take it for granted that when we faithfully delineate a character, the reader can draw his lessons of morality from it as well as we can; but as it would be doing great injustice to the character of Mrs. Thompson to rest it with the reader upon an occasional interview with her nearest and dearest friends, we are sure that we will be indulged in a word explanatory of her seeming inconsistency in the conversations just detailed.”
Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
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collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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phallocentric, disproportionate, bewave, distraught, uncoordinated, disgraceful, bewayne, beweltered, sensical, cunt, extrapolate, dysphoria and 86 more...
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