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División en sílabas: e·lab·o·rate

Definición de elaborate en inglés:


Pronunciación: /əˈlab(ə)rət
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detailed, painstaking, careful;
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informal fancy-schmancy
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Pronunciación: /əˈlabəˌrāt
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  • He did not elaborate on concerns regarding the immigration office.
develop, fill out, embellish, embroider, enhance, amplify
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  • labour from (Middle English):

    Labour came into English through French from Latin labor ‘toil, distress, trouble’, also found in laboratory (early 17th century) a place of work, and elaborate (late 16th century) ‘produced by much labour’. In the late 18th century the Scottish economist Adam Smith used the word technically for work directed towards providing the needs of a community, and paved the way for the use of labour in political contexts. The British Labour Party was formed in 1906 to represent ordinary working people. A task requiring enormous strength or effort is a labour of Hercules or a Herculean labour. In Greek mythology Hercules had superhuman strength and performed twelve tasks or ‘labours’ imposed on him as a penance for killing his children in a fit of madness. After his death he was ranked among the gods.



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Pronunciación: /-ˌrātiv/
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  • Crucially, this module defines a function elaborator.

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