Explain
Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.
To represent and explain are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To represent" with "Explain", this terms are similar.
To represent
Explain and to represent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb phrase "To represent".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- illustrate and explain
- illustrate and to represent
- account and explain
- account and to represent
- show and explain
- show and to represent
- render and explain
- render and to represent
- present and explain
- present and to represent
- delineate and explain
- delineate and to represent
- defend and explain
- defend and to represent
Both terms in one sentence
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At one point, he pulls down a pie chart, made with a real cherry pie, meant to represent Odie, to explain what a dog like him is made of.
Source: Cut a Slice, Take the Rest -
This is justified, however, in that it isn't meant to represent any known species to begin with, and also because it takes elements from the two-legged, two-winged wyvern (which may explain why the Dragon-type specialist Lance has one on his team).
Source: Ptero Soarer -
Played with in Astérix: the Speech Bubbles never show anything dirtier than Symbol Swearing, but footnotes explain which ancient language this is supposed to represent (though there is at least one instance of "owl swear words").
Source: Foreign Cuss Word
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