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Definition of elaborate in English: elaborateadjective ɪˈlab(ə)rətəˈlæb(ə)rət 1Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning. elaborate security precautions elaborate wrought-iron gates Example sentencesExamples - Doorways, gates, and windows are carved with elaborate designs.
- There were some matters the tribunal did not refer to although they could have, and some minor errors in relation to the details of this elaborate and complicated scheme.
- Rather than bore you with elaborate detail, I will simply sketch out in brief outline how the system would work.
- After having done a series of simple, effective bookjackets for the bestselling crime writer, Chris was suddenly asked for an altogether more elaborate design.
- On the night of the festival, people are expected to go to the streets to appreciate varying sorts of elaborate and brightly decorated lanterns, an often unforgettable experience.
- Security precautions were elaborate in the extreme.
- Though the book's elaborate details might make slow going for many readers, it will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and political activists.
- The elaborate design, praised at its inception, now is being blamed for ballooning costs and several delays.
- The buildings were all made of white stone, built carefully with elaborate details, as if every family lived in a miniature castle.
- And I think that's why he takes such elaborate security precautions.
- The mainstays of the children's bedrooms up and down the country were on display too: teddy bears in their hundreds, dolls in elaborate boxes and puzzles designed to stretch young minds.
- For example, many firms operate elaborate security arrangements which look good but are actually useless.
- This travel involves elaborate planning and discussions about eating.
- Death is one of the most important events in society and is marked by most ethnic groups and religions by elaborate and lengthy funeral observances that involve the whole community.
- Archaeologists still debate why communities would have gone to such lengths to create these elaborate structures, even if they housed local elite families.
- She looked as imperious and haughty as ever; her graying blue-silver hair swept up into an intricate coif, the elaborate detail of its design matching even her extravagant evening gown.
- In the case of this project, some of the students had made elaborate drawings with intricate details.
- A very elaborate stage design will be adopted, costing US $2 million.
- Narrators, for example, often provided elaborate details about the persons and locations involved in fairy stories.
- Columns supporting the roof were inlaid with elaborate, seemingly aimless designs; tantalizingly intricate, almost gaudy.
Synonyms complicated, detailed, intricate, complex, involved, tortuous, convoluted, serpentine, tangled, knotty, confusing, bewildering, baffling painstaking, careful inextricable, entangled, impenetrable, Byzantine, Daedalian, Gordian rare involute, involuted ornate, decorated, embellished, adorned, ornamented, fancy, over-elaborate, fussy, busy, ostentatious, extravagant, showy, baroque, rococo, florid, wedding-cake, gingerbread informal flash, flashy - 1.1 (of an action) lengthy and exaggerated.
he made an elaborate pretence of yawning Example sentencesExamples - ‘That sounds good,’ Cici said with an elaborate yawn, and laid her head on the side of the car.
- Against lesser quarterbacks, expect more gap-shooting and elaborate designs involving the back seven.
- He took his pipe from his mouth and gave an elaborate yawn, which seemed to take him by surprise.
- Faking an elaborate yawn, I sneak a glance over my shoulder just in time to see her naked back as she leaves.
- Police say the device would not have exploded as there was no detonator attached and are describing the incident as an elaborate hoax designed to cause fear.
- It is an elaborate, extravagant and bloated undertaking that not only throws in the kitchen sink but the fire extinguisher, too.
- The big summit meetings are elaborate rituals, ostentatious shows of power that reinforce the entitlement and authority of the bodies they represent.
- So plans were formed and we arranged the elaborate car-hopscotch required to ensure that no-one would drive home drunk.
- How do I know this isn't some elaborate scam designed to prey on the emotions of someone with a terminal loved one?
- Or is this an elaborate hoax designed to generate interest in a book deal?
- Maybe I'll find tomorrow, I live in hope, that the BBC article was just some kind of elaborate wind-up…
- He didn't just make a mistake on the date; he told the story in elaborate detail.
- Sexual selection theory has proved extremely successful in explaining male ornaments, such as elaborate vocal and visual displays.
verb ɪˈlabəreɪtəˈlæbəˌreɪt 1with object Develop or present (a theory, policy, or system) in further detail. the theory was proposed by Cope and elaborated by Osborn Example sentencesExamples - He elaborates an original theory of identity to address issues surrounding the Trinity, one that has wider applicability in metaphysics.
- This strategy had been reversed when homeland policy was elaborated at that time.
- This part ‘represents one of the few attempts, ancient or modern, to elaborate a theory of pragmatics and discourse grammar.’
- Rather, recognizing relevant facts and elaborating theories to explain them are two aspects of a single process: making our total view as coherent as we can.
- If she had done so, he would have had to elaborate his policy ambitions in detail.
- Sitting in front of their seaside cottage, he elaborates his theory.
- We model these properties with a basic thermodynamic framework without the use of more elaborated theory as has been done previously.
- They believe that they have elaborated a theory linking ventilation, cytokine release, and multiple organ system failure.
- Myrdal believed the same to be true of the neoclassical trade theory elaborated by Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin.
- While the failure of the book to engage in elaborating the theory of Bonapartism is a weakness, the avoidance of any serious debate concerning the writer's position in regard to Stalinism is regrettable.
- But discussing its permutations also aids in elaborating the theory I am commending.
- While the survivor in the garden is doubly constructed as Jewish and female, her story serves more than a dual purpose in elaborating Semprun's theory of memory.
- Obrador rejected the workers' demands, saying that current plans were part of a more general municipal labor policy elaborated by the city.
- Afterwards we were walking though the labyrinthine corridors of the company basement where the training room is located, as he elaborated his theory about the trainer's sexuality and Abdir and I cracked up.
- Esclangon elaborated a theory for these functions, studied their differentiation and integration, and examined the differential equations which allow them as coefficients.
- At this point, I shall briefly elaborate the theory of the global system based on the three spheres of economic, political, and culture-ideology transnational practices.
- Not surprisingly, he elaborates a theory of the relationship between music and money.
- Depending on how this feature of a moral theory is elaborated, there will be more than one answer to the question of the effects of moral requirements on the motives of connection.
- They represent interdependent components of the class policy elaborated by the dominant strata of the ruling elite.
- We are often told that our movement lacks the persons of talent who might be capable of further elaborating Marx's theories.
Synonyms narrate, relate, recount, tell, reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, present, communicate, report, recite, portray, spell out, give an account of, set forth, set out - 1.1no object Add more detail concerning what has already been said.
he would not elaborate on his news Example sentencesExamples - He did not elaborate on concerns regarding the immigration office.
- He wouldn't elaborate on details but hinted that the look of the series will be influenced by the hot reality genre.
- It is likely that in listening to conversations or lecture materials you simultaneously translate into pictures which enhance and elaborate on the meaning.
- As a ratepayer I am most concerned by this statement and would ask Mr Bloxham to elaborate on what he means by ‘support’ and what extent of support is required.
- Tune in at 4 am tomorrow, when I may feverishly elaborate on the details.
- He declined to elaborate on the technical details.
- A spokeswoman for the inquiry refused to elaborate on the concerns but said they would eventually be made public in a witness statement.
- Later, he had made an honest error in refusing to elaborate on details of his credit card transactions which led him inadvertently into controversy.
- These e-mails and comments often either correct mistakes I have made, or elaborate on posts already on the site.
- He declined to elaborate on the details of the discussion and said he is not at liberty to discuss Cabinet meetings.
- They were genuinely intrigued by the story and felt little need to elaborate on what already seemed so outlandish.
- In this article, then, I will elaborate on these concerns and use some well-known poems.
- A secondary theme of the book is to identify and elaborate on the issues and beliefs that concerned Tagore all his life as a poet and a writer.
- Well, we really can't elaborate on the specific details.
- You may elaborate on and enlarge the truth to a degree, but you are a person of high integrity and high standards of behavior.
- Liu declined to elaborate on details of the bid.
- The authority is refusing to elaborate on details of the claims.
- The powerful farm lobby is not prepared to elaborate on its reportedly top level talks of recent days.
- I would like to continue to elaborate on the concerns Dr Smith put to the Committee.
- He did not elaborate on the details of the different laws involved in the two cases.
Synonyms expand on, enlarge on, add to, flesh out, add flesh to, put flesh on the bones of, add detail to, expatiate on supplement, reinforce, augment, extend, broaden, develop, fill out, embellish, enhance, amplify, refine, improve
2Biology
with object (of a natural agency) produce (a substance) from its elements or simpler constituents. many amino acid and peptide hormones are elaborated by neural tissue Example sentencesExamples - The parietal cell of the stomach, which elaborates hydrochloric acid, is an example of such an eosinophilic cell.
- Each elaborates its own protein repertoire, yet all came from an egg containing the only copy of the organism's genes.
- Uroisolate PU7, was found to elicit the maximum virulence factors elaborating extracellular enzymes, protease, elastase, phospholipase C, haemolysin and pyochelin.
- Many amino acid and peptide hormones are elaborated by neural tissue, with ultimate impact on the entire system.
- In the later stages they elaborate the collagenous intercellular substance of the scar.
Origin Late 16th century (in the sense 'produced by effort of labour', also in sense 2 of the verb): from Latin elaborat- 'worked out', from the verb elaborare, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + labor 'work'. labour from Middle English: Labour came into English through French from Latin labor ‘toil, distress, trouble’, also found in laboratory (early 17th century) a place of work, and elaborate (late 16th century) ‘produced by much labour’. In the late 18th century the Scottish economist Adam Smith used the word technically for work directed towards providing the needs of a community, and paved the way for the use of labour in political contexts. The British Labour Party was formed in 1906 to represent ordinary working people. A task requiring enormous strength or effort is a labour of Hercules or a Herculean labour. In Greek mythology Hercules had superhuman strength and performed twelve tasks or ‘labours’ imposed on him as a penance for killing his children in a fit of madness. After his death he was ranked among the gods.
Definition of elaborate in US English: elaborateadjectiveəˈlæb(ə)rətəˈlab(ə)rət 1Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning. elaborate security precautions elaborate wrought-iron gates Example sentencesExamples - Doorways, gates, and windows are carved with elaborate designs.
- This travel involves elaborate planning and discussions about eating.
- And I think that's why he takes such elaborate security precautions.
- The elaborate design, praised at its inception, now is being blamed for ballooning costs and several delays.
- On the night of the festival, people are expected to go to the streets to appreciate varying sorts of elaborate and brightly decorated lanterns, an often unforgettable experience.
- Rather than bore you with elaborate detail, I will simply sketch out in brief outline how the system would work.
- Columns supporting the roof were inlaid with elaborate, seemingly aimless designs; tantalizingly intricate, almost gaudy.
- There were some matters the tribunal did not refer to although they could have, and some minor errors in relation to the details of this elaborate and complicated scheme.
- The mainstays of the children's bedrooms up and down the country were on display too: teddy bears in their hundreds, dolls in elaborate boxes and puzzles designed to stretch young minds.
- Though the book's elaborate details might make slow going for many readers, it will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and political activists.
- In the case of this project, some of the students had made elaborate drawings with intricate details.
- Narrators, for example, often provided elaborate details about the persons and locations involved in fairy stories.
- Archaeologists still debate why communities would have gone to such lengths to create these elaborate structures, even if they housed local elite families.
- A very elaborate stage design will be adopted, costing US $2 million.
- Security precautions were elaborate in the extreme.
- For example, many firms operate elaborate security arrangements which look good but are actually useless.
- Death is one of the most important events in society and is marked by most ethnic groups and religions by elaborate and lengthy funeral observances that involve the whole community.
- She looked as imperious and haughty as ever; her graying blue-silver hair swept up into an intricate coif, the elaborate detail of its design matching even her extravagant evening gown.
- After having done a series of simple, effective bookjackets for the bestselling crime writer, Chris was suddenly asked for an altogether more elaborate design.
- The buildings were all made of white stone, built carefully with elaborate details, as if every family lived in a miniature castle.
Synonyms complicated, detailed, intricate, complex, involved, tortuous, convoluted, serpentine, tangled, knotty, confusing, bewildering, baffling ornate, decorated, embellished, adorned, ornamented, fancy, over-elaborate, fussy, busy, ostentatious, extravagant, showy, baroque, rococo, florid, wedding-cake, gingerbread - 1.1 (of an action) lengthy and exaggerated.
he made an elaborate pretense of yawning Example sentencesExamples - He took his pipe from his mouth and gave an elaborate yawn, which seemed to take him by surprise.
- Sexual selection theory has proved extremely successful in explaining male ornaments, such as elaborate vocal and visual displays.
- So plans were formed and we arranged the elaborate car-hopscotch required to ensure that no-one would drive home drunk.
- The big summit meetings are elaborate rituals, ostentatious shows of power that reinforce the entitlement and authority of the bodies they represent.
- ‘That sounds good,’ Cici said with an elaborate yawn, and laid her head on the side of the car.
- He didn't just make a mistake on the date; he told the story in elaborate detail.
- It is an elaborate, extravagant and bloated undertaking that not only throws in the kitchen sink but the fire extinguisher, too.
- Faking an elaborate yawn, I sneak a glance over my shoulder just in time to see her naked back as she leaves.
- Maybe I'll find tomorrow, I live in hope, that the BBC article was just some kind of elaborate wind-up…
- How do I know this isn't some elaborate scam designed to prey on the emotions of someone with a terminal loved one?
- Or is this an elaborate hoax designed to generate interest in a book deal?
- Police say the device would not have exploded as there was no detonator attached and are describing the incident as an elaborate hoax designed to cause fear.
- Against lesser quarterbacks, expect more gap-shooting and elaborate designs involving the back seven.
verbəˈlæbəˌreɪtəˈlabəˌrāt 1with object Develop or present (a theory, policy, or system) in detail. the key idea of the book is expressed in the title and elaborated in the text Example sentencesExamples - Rather, recognizing relevant facts and elaborating theories to explain them are two aspects of a single process: making our total view as coherent as we can.
- This part ‘represents one of the few attempts, ancient or modern, to elaborate a theory of pragmatics and discourse grammar.’
- They represent interdependent components of the class policy elaborated by the dominant strata of the ruling elite.
- Afterwards we were walking though the labyrinthine corridors of the company basement where the training room is located, as he elaborated his theory about the trainer's sexuality and Abdir and I cracked up.
- We are often told that our movement lacks the persons of talent who might be capable of further elaborating Marx's theories.
- If she had done so, he would have had to elaborate his policy ambitions in detail.
- While the failure of the book to engage in elaborating the theory of Bonapartism is a weakness, the avoidance of any serious debate concerning the writer's position in regard to Stalinism is regrettable.
- At this point, I shall briefly elaborate the theory of the global system based on the three spheres of economic, political, and culture-ideology transnational practices.
- They believe that they have elaborated a theory linking ventilation, cytokine release, and multiple organ system failure.
- While the survivor in the garden is doubly constructed as Jewish and female, her story serves more than a dual purpose in elaborating Semprun's theory of memory.
- He elaborates an original theory of identity to address issues surrounding the Trinity, one that has wider applicability in metaphysics.
- But discussing its permutations also aids in elaborating the theory I am commending.
- Not surprisingly, he elaborates a theory of the relationship between music and money.
- Myrdal believed the same to be true of the neoclassical trade theory elaborated by Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin.
- Esclangon elaborated a theory for these functions, studied their differentiation and integration, and examined the differential equations which allow them as coefficients.
- Sitting in front of their seaside cottage, he elaborates his theory.
- Depending on how this feature of a moral theory is elaborated, there will be more than one answer to the question of the effects of moral requirements on the motives of connection.
- Obrador rejected the workers' demands, saying that current plans were part of a more general municipal labor policy elaborated by the city.
- We model these properties with a basic thermodynamic framework without the use of more elaborated theory as has been done previously.
- This strategy had been reversed when homeland policy was elaborated at that time.
Synonyms narrate, relate, recount, tell, reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, present, communicate, report, recite, portray, spell out, give an account of, set forth, set out - 1.1no object Add more detail concerning what has already been said.
he would not elaborate on his news Example sentencesExamples - He declined to elaborate on the technical details.
- It is likely that in listening to conversations or lecture materials you simultaneously translate into pictures which enhance and elaborate on the meaning.
- In this article, then, I will elaborate on these concerns and use some well-known poems.
- He wouldn't elaborate on details but hinted that the look of the series will be influenced by the hot reality genre.
- You may elaborate on and enlarge the truth to a degree, but you are a person of high integrity and high standards of behavior.
- They were genuinely intrigued by the story and felt little need to elaborate on what already seemed so outlandish.
- Later, he had made an honest error in refusing to elaborate on details of his credit card transactions which led him inadvertently into controversy.
- Well, we really can't elaborate on the specific details.
- Tune in at 4 am tomorrow, when I may feverishly elaborate on the details.
- He did not elaborate on concerns regarding the immigration office.
- The authority is refusing to elaborate on details of the claims.
- A spokeswoman for the inquiry refused to elaborate on the concerns but said they would eventually be made public in a witness statement.
- I would like to continue to elaborate on the concerns Dr Smith put to the Committee.
- The powerful farm lobby is not prepared to elaborate on its reportedly top level talks of recent days.
- He did not elaborate on the details of the different laws involved in the two cases.
- A secondary theme of the book is to identify and elaborate on the issues and beliefs that concerned Tagore all his life as a poet and a writer.
- Liu declined to elaborate on details of the bid.
- These e-mails and comments often either correct mistakes I have made, or elaborate on posts already on the site.
- As a ratepayer I am most concerned by this statement and would ask Mr Bloxham to elaborate on what he means by ‘support’ and what extent of support is required.
- He declined to elaborate on the details of the discussion and said he is not at liberty to discuss Cabinet meetings.
Synonyms expand on, enlarge on, add to, flesh out, add flesh to, put flesh on the bones of, add detail to, expatiate on
2Biology
with object (of a natural agency) produce (a substance) from its elements or simpler constituents. Example sentencesExamples - Each elaborates its own protein repertoire, yet all came from an egg containing the only copy of the organism's genes.
- In the later stages they elaborate the collagenous intercellular substance of the scar.
- The parietal cell of the stomach, which elaborates hydrochloric acid, is an example of such an eosinophilic cell.
- Uroisolate PU7, was found to elicit the maximum virulence factors elaborating extracellular enzymes, protease, elastase, phospholipase C, haemolysin and pyochelin.
- Many amino acid and peptide hormones are elaborated by neural tissue, with ultimate impact on the entire system.
Origin Late 16th century (in the sense ‘produced by effort of labor’, also in elaborate (sense 2 of the verb)): from Latin elaborat- ‘worked out’, from the verb elaborare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + labor ‘work’. |