Elaboration
[ɪ,læbə'reɪʃən] or [ɪ,læbə'reʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
(n.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
Editor: Thea
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Labor, painstaking.[2]. Preparation, ripening, maturing.
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Examples
- There remained throughout the whole period considerable areas in which the elaboration of the arts of life could go on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Further elaboration of this method was made later by the addition of rheostats, condensers, and local opposition batteries on long lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Jo thrusts the handle of his broom between the bars of the gate, and with his utmost power of elaboration, points it out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The discoveries in the elaboration of implements and the use of metals made by the settled peoples spread to them and improved their weapons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These skins they prepared with skill and elaboration, and towards the end of the age they used bone needles, no doubt to sew these pelts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This scheme the German strategists had worked out with great care and elaboration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It made the elaboration of a technique of instruction relatively easy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Some of these were carpeted and furnished with considerable elaboration. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A slight elaboration of Fig. 4 will further illustrate the principle of the differential duplex. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It might justly be compared with a sketch which is all right as far as it goes, but which requires toning down and elaboration before becoming a finished work of art. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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