Frequency rank: 522.
- explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
noun (common) (futsuumeishi); noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; transitive verb
Forms
Generated definitions (experimental)
- explanation; exposition; description
- account; caption; legend
This meaning refers to the act of making something clear or providing detailed information about a subject. It is often used in academic or formal contexts.
This meaning pertains to a brief description or narrative that accompanies an item, such as a photograph or a diagram, providing context or additional information.
There’s a caption below the photo.
His story was an incredibly interesting account.
Generated collocations (experimental)
せつめい説明をするto explainぐたいてき具体的なせつめい説明detailed explanationせつめいしょ説明書instruction manualせつめいかい説明会explanatory meetingせつめいせきにん説明責任accountabilityせつめいぶん説明文explanatory textめいかく明確なせつめい説明clear explanationかんたん簡単なせつめい説明simple explanationえ絵のせつめい説明caption for a pictureろんりてき論理的なせつめい説明logical explanationごかい誤解をまねく招くせつめい説明misleading explanationせんもんてき専門的なせつめい説明technical explanationくわしい詳しいせつめい説明thorough explanation
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
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Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.
I don't know how to demonstrate it, since it's too obvious!
It would take me too much time to explain to you why it's not going to work.
I'm so dumb... I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself.
Furthermore, even after the company information session, we sometimes hold company tours.
Good doctors explain things to patients in easily understandable ways, using anatomical models and such.
Why God allows these sorts of actions by Satan is explained in the Book of Job in the Bible.
Here we explain about creating outlines of characters and paths.
In the official question collection it is explained as being "passive voice of the present continuous tense".
15. とくに特に、ちょうわへいきん調和平均のじっさい実際のしようれい使用例としては、きごう「へいきんそくど平均速度きごう」がおもに主にとりあげられ取り上げられ、せつめい説明がそこでおわってしまう終わってしまうのがつうれい通例である。
In particular, it is customary for actual examples of use of the harmonic mean to generally cover "average speed," and explain no further than that.
If you sum up feminist counselling in a few words, I suppose it would be counselling done from a woman's standpoint.
This book aims to provide an explanation of modern Japanese grammar that is as systematic and as easily understood as possible.
I explained the situation, as this, that and such and such, but they just nodded along without showing much interest.