Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
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excuse, explain
(verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of; “Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work”; “Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again”
explain, explicate
(verb) make plain and comprehensible; “He explained the laws of physics to his students”
explain
(verb) define; “The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
explain (third-person singular simple present explains, present participle explaining, simple past and past participle explained)
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
To give a valid excuse for past behavior.
(obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
(intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.
Synonyms
• (give a sufficiently detailed report): expound, elaborate, recce
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*plain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explained();p. pr. & vb. n. Explaining.] Etym: [L. explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, explaner. See Plain,a., and cf. Esplanade.]
1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn.
2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. Gay. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away." Pope.
Syn.
– To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.
Ex*plain", v. i.
Definition: To give an explanation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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