explaining

EnglishEdit

VerbEdit

explaining

1. present participle of explain

NounEdit

explaining (plural explainings)

1. 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.