explaining
English edit
Verb edit
explaining
- present participle and gerund of explain
Noun edit
explaining (countable and uncountable, plural explainings)
- explanation
- You've got some explaining to do!
- 1973, Abraham Kaplan, The conduct of inquiry, page 327:
- Among these various explainings there is one set which it is comparatively easy to distinguish. I call it semantic explanation: making clear a meaning.