Synonym: detail, develop, dwell on, work out. Antonym: plain, rude, simple. Similar words: laboratory, collaboration, labor, laboriously, decorate, corporate, incorporate, abortion. Meaning: [ɪ'læbərət] v. 1. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing 2. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product 3. make more complex, intricate, or richer 4. work out in detail. adj. 1. marked by complexity and richness of detail 2. developed or executed with care and in minute detail.
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91. The political negotiations between a minister and the Treasury ministers will be matched by much more elaborate negotiations between civil servants.
92. De Benedetti disclosed that Hewlett-Packard Co had also approached Olivetti for a possible alliance, but declined to elaborate.
93. An elaborate send-off for the dead was also a social event, because a lavish funeral reflected on the living.
94. She added elaborate long ear-rings and white openwork sandals with high heels.
95. At the Gynn, the ravine was bridged and an elaborate tramway layout constructed, facilitating cars reversing in both directions.
96. Pindar wrote his elaborate choral odes also in many other genres, but we have only fragments of these.
97. In comparison with the elaborate quantitative data sets on voting we have little empirical information on this group phenomenon.
98. Unlike less sophisticated Al, neural nets do not require that elaborate rule structures be specified in advance.
99. It consisted of the straight robe mentioned above, with an elaborate flounced and layered over-skirt tied on at the waist.
100. The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery, or under primitive conditions.
101. Can he replicate elaborate shapes or does he tend to make a mishmash?
102. And DeloresDelores rambled, but she wrote the most elaborate essay her teacher had yet seen her produce.
103. The lawyer had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what happened.
104. It was traditional for princelings to commission elaborate genealogies alleging their descent from mythical heroes or gods.
105. The interior is more elaborate, but has also been more altered in later ages.
106. It required no elaborate analysis to draw the lesson: economic grievances could only be redressed by achieving political change.
107. They are in elaborate head-dresses and carry shields and spears.
108. Unfortunately, Rose did not elaborate on the nature of such mixed schooling experiences.
109. Samaranch did not elaborate, but he may have been referring to a more high-powered device to detect illegal substances.
110. As in other bowerbirds, the male builds an elaborate bower of twigs and ferns and therein tries to seduce females.
111. Gary is wearing a pair of jeans, a buckskin jacket decorated with porcupine quills, and his elaborate necklace.
112. Julian's Bower, at Alkborough, Lincolnshire, is altogether more elaborate, having twelve concentric circles.
113. In Celtic society elaborate metal objects were often used to display the power of an individual or a tribe.
114. The handsome restaurant offers ample buffet breakfasts and elaborate evening meals.
115. Most of the costs of producing a memory chip are fixed, because of the elaborate factories and equipment needed.
116. The diaries have been published in one volume, with elaborate biographical notes by Professor Emson. Sentencedict.com
117. The protocol at Ingard House was far more elaborate than at the head office of the bank.
118. Cho and Lee celebrated their new partnership at an elaborate banquet.
119. Unlike hydra, they have clearly defined head and tail ends, and a much more elaborate behavioural repertoire.
120. Monasteries and nunneries were relatively safe from attack until the Dissolution and would have no need for elaborate and impractical tunnels.
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