Elaboration is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELABORATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of elaborating
• the process of developing or presenting a theory, policy, or system in further detail
• the addition of more detail concerning what has already been said
• The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
• The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
• addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
• the result of improving something
• a discussion that provides additional information
• marked by elaborately complex detail
• developing in intricate and painstaking detail
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• planned or carried out with great care

Words related to ELABORATION

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Words that contain ELABORATION

elaborations14 overelaboration20 overelaborations21

How to use ELABORATION in a sentence

• Such an elaboration of the tale is exactly what we should expect as it passed down the ages.
• The beginnings of every great invention have been clumsy and uncouth compared with the results attained by years of study and elaboration participated in by many clever brains.
• But after some months of this change of occupation, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I found leisure in the course of wide travels to take up the work of elaboration and revision.
• The form is of his own day, the spirit of his art that of all time and of all good art, the elaboration of a type and not merely the reproduction of a picturesque model.
• The beard was worn long, and arranged with great care, the elaboration being pretty nearly the same in the case of the king and of the common laborer.
• Herodotus describes with some elaboration the costume of the Babylonians in his day.
• THE FORMAL DINNER The formal dinner follows the general idea and arrangement of the family dinner, with considerable elaboration.
• Spencer pointed out with much elaboration that children acquire in their early years a vast amount of information exclusively through the incessant use of their senses.
• To some elaboration and embellishment I plead guilty, but the groundwork is truth, and the facts stated are as real as the foundations of my buildings or the cows in my stalls.
• Such are a new ritual, the elaboration of the caste system, the growth of sects, and the tendency to make devotion to a particular deity the essence of religion.
• Reaching the river, he made his preparations with great care and elaboration.
• I can tell you that he had long been engaged on its elaboration.
• One remarkable illustration is given by Fiske, as an elaboration of an example cited by Darwin.
• These things were open gossip, and each repetition of the tales in circulation gained in elaboration of detail, till all sorts of wild extravagances were accepted as facts.
• Inevitably in the elaboration of all this Quimby reached out to include religion and theology and even created his own distinctive metaphysics.
• But long as the discourse may be, it is but the elaboration of the text that Sir William Jones supplied.
• In none of them, however, did he find the same elaboration of device as at Stanfield Place.
• At home they cultivate themselves at leisure and with greater elaboration.
• Without apparent elaboration, each phrase was studied to produce the effect desired.
• Nothing is so much respected by unintelligent people as elaboration and complexity.
• They show us how the supposed mechanism really works in one particular field, in one stage of its elaboration.
• If I take two potatoes, one goes to the elaboration of mental processes, the other to the support of the physical economy.
• The best minds were occupied with the leisurely elaboration and discussion of speculative ideas and self-effacement was both practised and preached.

Similar words containing ELABORA without suffix tion

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