All 3 Uses of
elaborate
in
Brave New World
- At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus.
p. 23..4 (definition 1) *elaborate = special
- "Strange," mused the Director, as they turned away, "strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption."
p. 31..1 (definition 1)elaborate = complex
- "I wonder if you'd like to come back to London with us?" he asked, making the first move in a campaign whose strategy he had been secretly elaborating ever since, in the little house, he had realized who the "father" of this young savage must be.
p. 138..6 (definition 2) *elaborating = developing details
Definitions:
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(1) (elaborate as in: an elaborate design) having details and complexity -- sometimes fancy or ornateeditor's notes: Depending upon it's context, this sense of elaborate can additionally imply that details make something either:
- more special than others of its kind in a good way
- more complicated than necessary in a bad way
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(2) (elaborate as in: elaborate on your plan) add details or explain in detail