Meaning of skaidrot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to explain (to make something clearer, more understandable, easier to perceive to someone, by, e.g., talking about it,)
   transitive
2. to explain (to find the essential features or the causes of something by analyzing and organizing facts, ideas, etc.; to contain information about the essential features or causes of something)
   transitive

Examples

“skaidrot vārda nozīmi”

to explain the meaning of a word

“skaidrot matemātikas uzdevumu”

to explain the math problem

““kā tad čūskas sit?” zēni vaicāja; “Nevajag atvēzēties,” Inga skaidroja, “ka neuzmet sev uz galvas””

“how can we hit a snake?” the boys asked; “don't reach out,” Inga explained, “so that it doesn't throw itself on (your) head”

“pagalmā bija izsteigušies kāda sieviete un raudādama skaidroja kazakiem, ka mūsu dzīvoklī esot bērni, lai jel nešaujot uz mums”

some woman had rushed out into the yard and, crying, explained to the Cossacks that in our apartment there were children, so that they wouldn't shoot on us

“skaidrot sarežģītas dabas parādības”

to explain complex natural phenomena

“skaidrojošā vārdnīca”

an explanatory dictionary (i.e., a dictionary in which words are defined rather than translated into another language)

“anatoms Santorio visus organismā noritošos procesus skaidroja no mehānikas viedokļa”

the anatomist Santorio explained all ongoing processes in the body from a mechanical standpoint

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