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Spell Out

Definition: Spell Out

Spell Out

Verb

1. Make explicit; specify in detail; "You shuld spell out your demands".

2. Read with difficulty.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Spell Out

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interpretation

Find out; a the meaning; of; read; spell out, make out; decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve; read between the lines.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Spell Out

English words defined with "spell out": Ouija, Ouija boardplanchette. (references)
Specialty definitions using "spell out": implementational long-range plantactical plan. (references)

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Modern Usage: Spell Out

DomainUsage

Lyrics

And the stars spell out your name (Candle In The Wind 1997; performing artist: Elton John)

I spell out all the hurtin' words (D-I-V-O-R-C-E; performing artist: Tammy Wynette)

So we spell out the words we don't want him to understand (D-I-V-O-R-C-E; performing artist: Tammy Wynette)

Clever

If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Spell Out

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Crewmembers spell out "Boxer 75,000 Landings" on the flight deck to commemorate reaching that milestone in her career. The landing was made on 19 November 1955 by Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Charles R. Smith, and his crewman, Roland W. Parker, flying an AD "Skyraider" of Composite Squadron 35. The original photograph was released by Commander Naval Forces Far East on 28 November 1955. Credit: NAVY.

Crewmen on the flight deck spell out "Connecticut", 16 July 1951. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Spell Out

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He had tried to spell out the headline for himself though he knew already what it was for it was the last of the book.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Spell Out

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Legislation and regulations have been enacted that spell out guidelines for protecting workers from hazardous noise levels in the workplace and consumers from hazardous noise during leisure time pursuits. (references)

Business

The new law will spell out roles and responsibilities of both lessor and lessee. (references)

These initiatives spell out the commitment to promote independence and out-patient rehabilitation, and, as a result, many patients who would have previously been institutionalized have remained in the community. (references)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

Implementing regulations, which spell out more clearly what is permitted and prohibited, were promulgated in October. (references)

Economic History

Ghana

However, joint venture arrangements with Ghanaian firms should carefully spell out areas of responsibility. (references)

Chad

The OHADA acts spell out rights for approved creditors in various categories (i.e., the treasury, wage earners, etc.). (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

These guidelines also spell out the conditions under which companies may receive one, two and three year operating licenses. (references)

Political Rights

Croatia

Outstanding concerns included the hurried last-minute drafting of the election law, provisions on minority representation that do not clearly spell out procedures for achieving minority balance in local bodies (and that still await data from the April 2001 census), the lack of a permanent state electoral commission, the lack of transparency in parties' campaign expenditures, and the lack of regulations for campaign financing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Spell Out

Language Translations for "spell out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

lexoj rrokje për rrokje. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

напиши цяло, произнасям по букви, изработвам с мъка, изписвам с мъка. (various references)

   

German

  

verklaren, verdeutlichen (clarify, elucidate, explain, point up, show clearly), entziffern (break, decipher, decode, make out, to decipher), durchbuchstabieren, buchstabieren (alphabetize, spell, to spell). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לפרט (break down, detail, itemize, particularize, specify), לאית (spell), ל"סביר (account for, brighten, explain, illustrate, interpret, make clear). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kibetûz. (various references)

   

Italian

  

compitare (spell). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

人文字 (arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひともじ (arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellspay outay

   

Portuguese

  

ler com dificuldade, entender (know, perceive, read, realize, savvy, sense, to understand, understand), descobrir (ascertain, bare, bewray, denudate, denude, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, elicit, espy, find, find out, get out, hunt out, hunt up, identify, lay open, lay up bare, open, pioneer, poke about, publicize, reveal, see, show up, strike, surprise, to discover, uncap, uncloak, unclose, uncover, unearth, unkennel, unmask, unveil), decifrar (clear up, decipher, decode, find, guess, make out, read, resolve, unriddle, unscramble). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

читать по складам (spell). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sricati, detaljno objasniti. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

explicar detalladamente, deletrear (decipher, spell). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stava sig igenom. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

heceleyerek okumak, hecelemek (articulate, spell, syllabicate, syllabify, syllabize, syllable), güçlükle sökmek, ayrıntılı olarak açıklamak. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

konkretleюdirmek (r) (make specific). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

читати по літерах. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Spell Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outspell, pollutes.

Words within the letters "e-l-l-o-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: outsell, pollute, pullets, sellout, tupelos.

-2 letters: letups, loupes, poults, pullet, solute, tousle, tulles, tupelo.

-3 letters: estop, letup, lopes, losel, lotus, loupe, loups, louse, louts, lutes, ousel, pelts, pesto, plots, poets, poles, polls, poult, pouts, pules, pulls, pulse, setup, slept, slope, spell, spelt, spout, stole, stope, stoup, stull, stupe, tells, telos, toles, tolls, tolus.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-l-o-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outspells, polluters.

 

+2 letters: leucoplast, outspelled, petiolules, postbellum.

 

+3 letters: eucalyptols, leucoplasts, outspelling, plenteously.

 

+4 letters: counterspell, cupellations, equipollents, eucalyptoles, multiplexors, polypetalous, portcullises, prothalluses.

 

+5 letters: counterspells, leptocephalus, superloyalist, tablespoonful.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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