Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who explains; an expositor; an interpreter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
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- noun
Agent noun ofexplain ; one who explains.
Etymologies
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Examples
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(If you're confused by all these terms, check out our mobile term explainer here.) [GigaOM]
Gizmodo 2009
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The most helpful explainer is about Default contact groups, which really explains the five contact groups that you can’t delete, rename or change, and the one contact group that drives a lot of office app veterans nuts:
The Complete Guide To Fixing Google Contacts | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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It also doesn't cover restoration costs required under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment, some paraphrase explainer?
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Click here for a useful "explainer" from Christainity Today on the Constitution and tax laws as applied to churches.
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The story lineup -- a look at planet Xena (yet another "10th planet" candidate), stem cell research workarounds, a pandemic flu "explainer," the un-extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, and the rise in the number and intensity of hurricanes and the link to global warming, and vat-grown meat -- looks interesting.
Boing Boing: December 18, 2005 - December 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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He supplemented his earnings from the bookshop with an evening job as an 'explainer' in a cinema.
WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991
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And I rejoice that I was left to deal with the Bible alone; for if I had had some theological "explainer" at my side, he might have tried, as such do, to lessen my indignation against Jacob, and thereby have warped my moral sense for ever; while the great apocalyptic spectacle of the ultimate triumph of right and justice might have been turned to the base purposes of a pious lampooner of the Papacy.
Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio 2010
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REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio 2010
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TV just did a nice explainer of who Whiz Khalifa is for the folks at home.7.11pm: Joshua Alston – Hey Brian, thanks for the introduction!
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