Expositive

  

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Expositive

Definition: Expositive

Expositive

Adjective

1. Serving to expound or set fourth; "clean expository writing".

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


Synonym: Expositive

Synonym: expository (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Expositive

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chassin's Operative Strategy in General Surgery: An Expositive Atlas (reference)

  • Operative Strategy in General Surgery: An Expositive Atlas (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: Expositive

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

Albanian

  

përshkrues (circumlocutional, descriptive, expository). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обяснителен (apologetic, apologetical, covering, declaratory, explainable, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, exponent, expository, interpretative). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vystavený (exposed, expository). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

leíró (descriptive). (various references)

   

Italian

  

espositivo (explaining), esplicativo (explanatory, explicative). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

expositiveay

   

Portuguese

  

explicação (account, apology, definition, elucidative, exemplar, explanation, explication, illustration, interpretative, secret). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

expozitiv (expository), explicativ (explanatory, exponent, expository), lãmuritor (explanatory, illustrative). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

описательный (circumlocutory, descriptive, expository). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

opisni (descriptive). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

expositivo (expository), demostrativo (demonstrative, indicative, leaflet). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förklarande (declarative, declaratory, elucidative, elucidatory, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expository, interpretative), beskrivande (descriptive). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

описовий (circumlocutory, descriptive, expository, periphrastic), пояснювальний (declaratory, elucidative, elucidatory, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, exponent, expository, illustrative, interpretative). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

để trình b y (expository), để mô tả (expository), để giải thích (explicative, explicatory, expository). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Expositive"

Words rhyming with "expositive" (pronounced 'Ex*pos"i*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Expositive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-o-p-s-t-v-x"

-2 letters: positive.

-3 letters: epoxies, exposit, pieties, poetise.

-4 letters: evites, expose, pities, pivots, pixies, potsie, sexpot, sopite, soviet, topees, vetoes.

-5 letters: estop, evite, exist, exits, expos, ivies, peise, pesto, piste, pivot, pixes, pixie, poets, poise, posit, poxes, sexto, sieve, sixte, spite, steep, stipe, stope, stove, tipis, topee, topes, topis, veeps, vexes, visit, votes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Expositive


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 78 70 6F 73 69 74 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    .--.    ---    ...    ..    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01111000 01110000 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#112 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0070 006F 0073 0069 0074 0069 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39908281857586758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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