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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
explanatory
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
factor
▪ Marxism's main flaw is its insistence on economics and the economic category of class as the one fundamental explanatory factor.
▪ As an example of the kinds of subtle relationships that exist among different explanatory factors, the Appendix reconsiders the 1976 data.
▪ To investigate relations between sets of possible explanatory factors and each outcome variable a stepwise multiple linear regression analysis was used.
▪ Primary explanatory factors considered were birth weight, gestational age, gender, and treatment group.
▪ Only by comparing across the presence and absence of outcomes can the importance of explanatory factors be determined.
▪ In any case, shortage of profits is quite implausible as an explanatory factor.
framework
▪ Beginning with the phenomena of sense, and by the use of our explanatory framework, we form hypotheses about their causes.
▪ Often, it deploys explanatory frameworks taken from traditional and egalitarian feminist psychology.
▪ With hindsight this explanatory framework often seems inadequate, inappropriate, and inconsistent.
▪ Even within this explanatory framework, little useful understanding will be obtained without first studying the problem at many different levels.
leaflet
▪ Details of the Scheme are outlined in the explanatory leaflet which you will receive in due course.
▪ This explanatory leaflet provides a brief description of changes made to the original design since September 1978.
▪ A colourful explanatory leaflet is available from all national park outlets and most responsible mountain bike shops in the area.
note
▪ This should be annotated with explanatory notes for clarification.
power
▪ The explanatory power of concepts can he enhanced if they are applied in contexts with which the comparativist is most familiar.
▪ A major factor with significant explanatory power for both participation and intensity is the leisure orientation of the consumer.
▪ We regard such a theory as providing us, as anthropologists, with a concept of useful explanatory power.
▪ Fama also tested for changes in the model's explanatory power over time.
▪ As the philosopher van Fraassen asks, what has explanatory power got to do with truth?
▪ The number of relevant factors and their explanatory power changed between sub-periods.
▪ His theory is then, relatively limited in its explanatory power.
▪ And as such they have no causal or explanatory power of their own.
statement
▪ The explanatory statement often takes the form of a letter from the financial advisers of the target and the bidder jointly.
survey
▪ Unfortunately, in a number of respects explanatory surveys failed to match up to the strict requirements of the logic required.
▪ In most cases of explanatory surveys it is perhaps less appropriate to speak of samples at all in the strict sense.
▪ What explanatory surveys require are cases which possess characteristics relevant to the problem of the research.
theory
▪ It allows us to record the principal ideas, key concepts, competing explanatory theories and illustrations used. 5.
▪ What was the nature of this work, and what was the explanatory theory at its gut?
variable
▪ The models may be extended to include observable explanatory variables and simultaneity can be allowed for as in econometric models.
▪ This more detailed and individualistic approach facilitates more accurate linkages between explanatory variables and the political behavior of gladiators.
▪ The definitions of the other explanatory variables are obvious.
▪ The relevant explanatory variables are listed in Table 5.1.
▪ A detailed case study approach is also called for by the nature of the explanatory variables that will be proposed.
▪ Secondly, several explanatory variables were difficult to measure and were only measured at one point in time.
▪ The response variable thus provides the proportions, and the explanatory variable the categories.
▪ The work characteristics and social support were more likely to have been misclassified than some of the other explanatory variables.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The information desk has maps and explanatory pamphlets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A detailed case study approach is also called for by the nature of the explanatory variables that will be proposed.
▪ As an example of the kinds of subtle relationships that exist among different explanatory factors, the Appendix reconsiders the 1976 data.
▪ Marxism's main flaw is its insistence on economics and the economic category of class as the one fundamental explanatory factor.
▪ The explanatory power of concepts can he enhanced if they are applied in contexts with which the comparativist is most familiar.
▪ The distinction between descriptive research and explanatory research is often very blurred.
▪ These lessons were contained in revisions to the constitution and in the explanatory legislation that codified its clauses.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Explanatory

Explanatory \Ex*plan"a*to*ry\, a. [L. explanatorius.] Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
explanatory

1610s, from or modeled on Late Latin explanatorius "having to do with an explanation," from Latin explanat-, past participle stem of explanare "make plain or clear" (see explanation).

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explanatory

a. 1 intend to serve as an explanation. 2 (context of a person English) dispose to explain.

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explanatory

adj. serving or intended to explain or make clear; "explanatory notes"; "an explanatory paragraph"

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Usage examples of "explanatory".

Idiot, the desire for an explanatory style gave way to a more generalized goal of conciseness.

The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: with explanatory notes and a life of the author, by the Rev.

The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a life of the author, preliminary dissertations on each poem, notes critical and explanatory, and a verbal index.

Lycidas, with notes, critical, explanatory, and grammatical, by a Graduate.

To which is added historical, philosophical, and explanatory notes, translated from the French of Raymond de St.

With historical, philosophical, critical, and explanatory notes, from Raymond de St.

Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J.

At the same time, mythological worldviews also took onin addition to their explanatory functionjustificatory functions.

But oppression has virtually no explanatory power or place in this scheme, which relieves us from the men-are-pigs, women-are-duped-sheep view.

His explanations explanatory of explanations explained are interminable.

July 17, 1862, and which act and the joint resolution explanatory thereof are herewith published, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States, on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.

Moware sat high up in the rigging preserving the battle on his recorder, calmly adding explanatory notes where necessary.

I found myself in a place where words regained their campfire importance, explanatory, incorruptible, above suspicion.

Someone comes looking for the work, sure that it contains the explanatory key long overlooked.

Todd flipped through the penciled staves, looking for some explanatory key.