English-Thai Dictionary

clarify

VT ทำให้ เข้าใจง่าย  tam-hai-kaol-jai-ngai

 

clarify

VT ทำให้ ใส สะอาด  purify filter refine tam-hai-sai-sa-ad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLARIFY

v.t. 1. To make clear; to purify from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; applied particularly to liquors; as, to clarify wine, or syrup.
2. To make clear; to brighten or illuminate; applied to the mind or reason.

 

CLARIFY

v.i. 1. To clear up; to grow clear or bright.
His understanding clarifies, in discoursing with another.
2. To grow or become clear or fine; to become pure, as liquors. Cider clarifies by fermentation.

 

CLARIFYING

ppr. Making clear, pure or bright; defecating; growing clear.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CLARIFY

Clar "i *fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clarified; p. pr. & vb. n.Clarifying. ] Etym: [F. clarifier, from L. clarificare; clarus clear + facere to make. See Clear, and Fact. ]

 

1. To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup. "Boiled and clarified. " Ure.

 

2. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate. To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will. South.

 

3. To glorify. [Obs. ] Fadir, clarifie thi name. Wyclif (John ii. 28 ).

 

CLARIFY

CLARIFY Clar "i *fy, v. i.

 

1. To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.

 

2. To grow clear or bright; to clear up. Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another. Bacon.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

clarify

clar i fy |ˈklarəˌfī ˈklɛrəˌfaɪ | ▶verb ( clarifies, clarifying, clarified ) [ with obj. ] 1 make (a statement or situation ) less confused and more clearly comprehensible: the report managed to clarify the government's position. 2 (often as adj. clarified ) melt (butter ) in order to separate out the impurities. DERIVATIVES clar i fi er noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the senses ‘set forth clearly ’ and ‘make pure and clean ’): from Old French clarifier, from late Latin clarificare, from Latin clarus ‘clear. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

clarify

clarify |ˈklarɪfʌɪ | ▶verb ( clarifies, clarifying, clarified ) [ with obj. ] 1 make (a statement or situation ) less confused and more comprehensible: the report managed to clarify the government's position. 2 (often as adj. clarified ) melt (butter ) in order to separate out the impurities. DERIVATIVES clarifier noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the senses ‘set forth clearly ’ and ‘make pure and clean ’): from Old French clarifier, from late Latin clarificare, from Latin clarus ‘clear ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

clarify

clarify verb 1 their report clarified the situation: make clear, shed /throw light on, elucidate, illuminate; explain, explicate, define, spell out, clear up. ANTONYMS confuse. 2 clarify the butter: purify, refine; filter, fine. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD clarify, construe, elucidate, explain, explicate, interpret When a biology teacher gets up in front of a class and tries to explain how two brown-eyed parents can produce a blue-eyed child, the purpose is to make an entire process or sequence of events understandable. In a less formal sense, to explain is to make a verbal attempt to justify certain actions or to make them understood (she tried to explain why she was so late ). That same teacher might clarify a particular exam question that almost everyone in the class got wrong —a word that means to make an earlier event, situation, or statement clear. Elucidate is a more formal word meaning to clarify, but where the root of the latter refers to clearness, the root of the former refers to light; to elucidate is to shed light on something through explanation, illustration, etc. (the principal's comments were an attempt to elucidate the school's policy on cheating ). A teacher who explicates something discusses a complex subject in a point-by-point manner (to explicate a poem ). If a personal judgment is inserted in making such an explication, the correct word is interpret (to interpret a poem's symbolic meanings ). To construe is to make a careful interpretation of something, especially where the meaning is ambiguous. For example, when a class misbehaves in front of a visitor, the teacher is likely to construe that behavior as an attempt to cause embarrassment or ridicule. These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

clarify

clarify verb 1 a meeting was called in order to clarify the situation: make clear, shed light on, throw light on, elucidate, illuminate, make plain, make simple, simplify; explain, explicate, define, spell out; clear up, sort out, resolve. ANTONYMS confuse, obscure. 2 an operation designed to clarify the wine | clarified butter: purify, refine; filter, make clear; melt (down ), render; technical fine.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

clarify

clar i fy /klǽrəfàɪ /動詞 -fies ; -fied ; ～ing 他動詞 自動詞 1 (〈意味など 〉を [が ])明らかにする [なる ], わかりやすくする [なる ].2 (〈液体 空気など 〉を [が ])きれいにする [なる ], 浄化する .cl á r i f ì er 名詞 C 浄化するもの, 浄化器 .