verbal explanation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofverbalandexplanation
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verbal
adjective
uk/ˈvɜː.bəl/us/ˈvɝː.bəl/
spoken rather ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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(Definition ofverbalandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofverbal explanation
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The stories cannot be replaced byverbalexplanation.
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Patients received averbalexplanationand an information sheet.
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Consent was always sought, using simple written information about the study which was read out to every potential participant and supplemented by averbalexplanation.
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For trivial or simple solutions, the designer might assume that onlyverbalexplanationwould be enough.
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These hands-on skills are at least partly tacit, because they have to be learned through careful apprenticeship and practice, not simply throughverbalexplanation.
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The other, by contrast, felt that the issue of invisibility invalidated demonstration and that only averbalexplanationcould work.
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Having introduced this interesting phrase byverbalexplanation, and by theoretical presentation, he then immediately proceeds to kick it in the teeth by subsequent action.
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In some cases, it may be more appropriate to provide averbalexplanation.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It accepts the importance of averbalexplanationof procedures.
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This can be done throughverbalexplanation, or through some form of printed educational material.
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In practice, all kinds of balances were struck between these contending factors, but verbal explanations have been inadequate.
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This sort of 'passing on' is somewhat different from one based on verbal explanations.
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Prior to this, all mathematical problems and solutions were written out in words; the more complicated the problem, the more laborious and convoluted theverbalexplanation.
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On the other hand, verbal explanations are difficult to understand.
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After theverbalexplanationof the model (definition), he tries to find out what the model and the target kind share in common (sameness) and what differentiates them (difference).
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It presents a series of challenging problems (or questions) that require verbal explanations and reasoning in an answer.
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These warning icons, first designed to regulate automobile traffic in the early 1900s, have become standardized and widely understood by users without necessity of further verbal explanations.
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