All 4 Uses of
elaborate
in
Do You Speak American?
- He argues that "the sixties swept away lofty oratory and marginalized elaborately constructed prose," to the point where the American public now distrusts formality in language as insincere.†
Chpt 1 *
- Labov's theory has been elaborated in the research of Stanford University linguist Penelope Eckert, who studied language changes originating among high-school students in a predominantly white suburb of Detroit.†
Chpt 2 *
- The traders spoke to them in pidgin English, and the slaves used and elaborated it to speak among themselves.†
Chpt 6
- Sleeping with the enemy being more profitable than competing, the two industries are now embedded in elaborate cross-ownership, production, and distribution alliances.†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(elaborate as in: elaborate on your plan) add details or explain in detail
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(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