Explain and Open

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Explain

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

Open

Open verb - To change from a closed to an open position.
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Explain and open are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb "Open".
Nearby Words: opening, openness, opened, opener

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way explain way open way

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  • Cutting the Knot Miles Dyson starts to explain how to open the container holding the robot arm, but is interrupted by John breaking it.
    Source: Cutting the Knot
  • Lynch is so adamant about leaving his work open to interpretation that he won't even explain it to his actors.
    Source: Shrug of God
  • Dilating Door But then they completely forgot to explain where the iris disappears to when open and where the presumably complex mechanism for operating it is.
    Source: Dilating Door
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