Explain and Footnote

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Explain

Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.
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Footnote and explain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Footnote" instead a verb "Explain".
Nearby Words: explanation, explained, explaining, explicable, explainable

Footnote

Footnote verb - Add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments.
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Explain and footnote are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb "Footnote".
Nearby Words: footnoted, footnoting

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  • Footnote Fever A scholarly printing of Finnegans Wake may have at least two inches of footnote for every inch of text, just to explain what's going on in any given passage.
    Source: Footnote Fever
  • Footnote Fever Polish translation bumps the footnote quota even higher, as the editors felt the need to explain to Polish readers old Russian aristocratic titles and weights and measures' system the author's using.
    Source: Footnote Fever
  • Footnote Fever: Continuing on from the second novel, there are humorous footnotes explaining (or refusing to explain) various events in the story.
    Source: Literature / Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle
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