• Explaining

    Verb

    explaining
    1. Present participle of explain

    Full definition of explaining

    Noun

    explaining

    (plural explainings)
    1. explanationYou've got some explaining to do!
      • 1973, Abraham Kaplan, The conduct of inquiry (page 327)Among these various explainings there is one set which it is comparatively easy to distinguish. I call it semantic explanation: making clear a meaning.
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