Elaborate
[ɪ'læb(ə)rət] or [ɪ'læbəret]
Definition
(verb.) work out in detail; 'elaborate a plan'.
(verb.) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; 'She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation'.
(verb.) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; 'The bee elaborates honey'.
(adj.) marked by complexity and richness of detail; 'an elaborate lace pattern' .
Checker: Sherman--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
(v. t.) To produce with labor
(v. t.) To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
Typed by Alphonse
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Bestow labor upon, work out.[2]. Improve, refine, mature, ripen, prepare thoroughly.
a. Labored, studied, high wrought, highly finished, elaborately prepared.
Typed by Freddie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Execute, forge, prepare, concoct, mature
ANT:Misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue, hit, conjecture, guess, extemporize,chance
Typist: Serena
Definition
v.t. to labour on: to produce with labour: to take pains with: to improve by successive operations.—adj. wrought with labour: done with fullness and exactness: highly finished.—adv. Elab′orately.—ns. Elab′orateness; Elaborā′tion act of elaborating: refinement: the process by which substances are formed in the organs of animals or plants.—adj. Elab′orative.—ns. Elab′orator one who elaborates; Elab′oratory=Laboratory.
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- We have elaborate governmental mechanisms--like the tariff, for example, which we go on making more scientific year in, year out--having long since lost sight of their human purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Maurice took the hint, and addressed himself to the Count with an air of elaborate politeness. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We have seen, in these old churches, a profusion of costly and elaborate sepulchre ornamentation such as we never dreampt of before. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A great industry of beautiful and elaborate fabrics and furnishings developed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No age has produced such a multitude of elaborate studies, and any selection was, of course, a limiting one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The aroused public opinion which the Commission asks for cannot be held if all it has to fix upon is an elaborate series of taboos. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- On Sundays, she went to church elaborated. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Farmer in 1852, had been elaborated by many ingenious inventors, notably in this country by Stearns, before Edison once again applied his mind to it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edison elaborated this principle in two other forms--one pneumatic and one electric--the latter being in essence a reciprocating motor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Her discretions interested him almost as much as her imprudences: he was so sure that both were part of the same carefully-elaborated plan. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Though Wildeve's fevered feeling had not been elaborated to real poetical compass, it was of the standard sort. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was an elaborated form of the type covered by my patent No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This form was elaborated and jeweled, and finally arched in with jeweled bands surmounted by the cross and scepter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is enough to note that literature in particular elaborates our insight into human life, and, therefore, enables us to center our institutions more truly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Marilyn