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The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.
Guy Davenport

Meaning of "explicable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXPLICABLE

explicable  [ˈɛksplɪkəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXPLICABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Explicable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EXPLICABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of explicable in the English dictionary

The definition of explicable in the dictionary is capable of being explained.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXPLICABLE


amicable
ˈæmɪkəbəl
applicable
ˈæplɪkəbəl
breakable
ˈbreɪkəbəl
clickable
ˈklɪkəbəl
communicable
kəˈmjuːnɪkəbəl
despicable
dɪˈspɪkəbəl
inapplicable
ɪnˈæplɪkəbəl
inexplicable
ˌɪnɪkˈsplɪkəbəl
likable
ˈlaɪkəbəl
likeable
ˈlaɪkəbəl
masticable
ˈmæstɪkəbəl
multiplicable
ˌmʌltɪˈplɪkəbəl
practicable
ˈpræktɪkəbəl
replicable
ˈreplɪkəbəl
unapplicable
ˌʌnəˈplɪkəbəl
unbreakable
ʌnˈbreɪkəbəl
unlikable
ʌnˈlaɪkəbəl
unlikeable
ʌnˈlaɪkəbəl
unmistakable
ˌʌnmɪsˈteɪkəbəl
unmistakeable
ˌʌnmɪsˈteɪkəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXPLICABLE

explanatively
explanatorily
explanatory
explant
explantation
expletive
expletively
expletory
explicably
explicate
explication
explication de texte
explications de texte
explicative
explicatively
explicator
explicatory
explicit
explicitly
explicitness

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXPLICABLE

able
allocable
brake cable
cable
coaxial cable
duplicable
educable
extension cable
impeccable
implacable
incommunicable
ineradicable
inextricable
irrevocable
jumper cable
placable
power cable
predicable
revocable
transmission cable
vocable

Synonyms and antonyms of explicable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EXPLICABLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «explicable» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of explicable

Translation of «explicable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXPLICABLE

Find out the translation of explicable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of explicable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «explicable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

可解释
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

explicable
570 millions of speakers

English

explicable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समझाने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفسيرها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

объяснимо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

explicável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কহতব্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

explicable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Boleh dibaca
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erklärbar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

説明可能な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

천명
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jelas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có thể giảng ​​giải
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விளக்கப்பட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पष्ट करता येण्याजोगा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

açıklanabilir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spiegabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyjaśnić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

з´ясовно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

explicabil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξηγηθεί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verklaarbaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förklarlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forklarlig
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXPLICABLE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about explicable

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2 QUOTES WITH «EXPLICABLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word explicable.
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Guy Davenport
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.
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Francis Parker Yockey
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXPLICABLE»

Discover the use of explicable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to explicable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Philosophy and Mystification: A Reflection on Nonsense and ...
However, the concept of scientific explicability does not define a class which is of the right sort to have a complement class; there is no class of the not-explicable. To have a complement, a class must either have a finite extension or else it must  ...
Guy Robinson, 2005
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Interpretation and Explanation in the Human Sciences
error is of a less developed sort that supports at best rough and very sketchy explanations, but is nevertheless generally correct, then the errors attributed to those we interpret and study will often be more satisfactorily explicable in terms of  ...
David K. Henderson, 1993
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Explaining Explanation
The complexes are explicable by means of that analysis; the ultimate simples, for which no further analysis or decomposition is possible, are therefore inexplicable . So explanation stops at the inexplicable simples. Plato presents the doctrine ...
David-Hillel Ruben, 2003
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A Critical History of Philosophy
If these facts are of such a character as to be fully explicable on some one specific hypothesis, and upon no other, we find ourselves in the presence of explicable facts. If these facts suggest no specific hypothesis of any kind, they belong to the ...
Asa Mahan, Richard Friedrich, 2003
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Tacit and Explicit Knowledge
Four meanings of “explicable.” When we use the term explicit we draw on a subset of the ways we talk about communication. We don't count enabling conditions 4 and 5 of communication as “rendering explicable,” because they comprise ...
Harry Collins, 2010
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Philosophy and Psychical Research
Let the third premise be the asumption that ESP occurs : (c) Some mental events — i.e. extra-sensory experiences — are not explicable in physical terms. A contradiction is easily derived from these three premises. The contradictory conclusion ...
Shivesh C Thakur, 2014
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Models and Experiments in Risk and Rationality
Next, we can build the outranking relations using only the explicable concordance index. If the concordance test is not verified, we check if the sum of non-explicable concordance value index and explicable concordance value index is greater ...
Bertrand Munier, Mark J. Machina, 1994
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Studies in the Philosophy of Biology: Reduction and Related ...
I can put this in a way that might seem startling: each higher-level event is determined by lower-level events, but the laws of the higher-level events are not explicable by the laws of lower-level theory. (3) The explanation of an event involves ...
Francisco José Ayala, Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky, 1974
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Chitty on Contracts, 31st edition volumes 1 & 2
7–093 although neither party had given thought to the value of the property, the transaction was otherwise explicable by the circumstances (the transaction had family elements) was upheld. The difference between the two approaches seems  ...
Professor Hugh Beale
10
Chitty on Contracts: General principles
7–093 although neither party had given thought to the value of the property, the transaction was otherwise explicable by the circumstances (the transaction had family elements) was upheld. The difference between the two approaches seems  ...
Joseph Chitty, H. G. Beale, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXPLICABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term explicable is used in the context of the following news items.
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Explicable glee: 'Minions' silly, but not shoddy
Explicable glee: 'Minions' silly, but not shoddy - Quad-Cities Online: Life · Click for Advanced .... Explicable glee: 'Minions' silly, but not shoddy. «Quad-Cities Online, Jul 15»
2
UCD reliving European glory days when they gave Everton the fright …
Less explicable was the paradox of a footballer simultaneously good enough to captain an outstanding Brazilian side in the 1982 World Cup ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
3
Cavendish beaten into third in Amiens sprint
Every defeat in those years seemed explicable by some error or element of misfortune in the run-in. In Amiens on Wednesday, however, ... «Cyclingnews.com, Jul 15»
4
What you are about to read is almost certainly wrong
Many events are either not particularly explicable, or do not fit into explanations which are visible from such close range. Give a commentator a ... «The Monthly, Jul 15»
5
Happy Fourth of July: Best 5 apps for fun, food and travel plans
Some of the keynotes of this app include – a ride though the formation of US with interactive flashcards, explicable war maps, audio narrations, ... «The Next Digit, Jul 15»
6
Winter puts an end to Tilly the whale
... or Tilly, for no explicable reason, the whale is a treasured piece of Salisbury Beach memorabilia that many worked to save before the former ... «The Daily News of Newburyport, Jul 15»
7
The day Hartlepool's Jeff died for 36 seconds
Then, for no explicable reason, he suddenly started to breathe again yet Jeff had no memory of what had just happened to him. Dynamic Dart ... «Hartlepool Mail, Jul 15»
8
Greece caught between a rock and a hard place in bail-out vote
The troika's strategy may be easier to divine, but it is no less explicable. They seem in no mood to extend Greece any financial favours ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
9
New fiction
... by the love of his life, “The Improbability of Love” possesses the appeal of a great piece of art that is universal though never quite explicable. «The Economist, Jul 15»
10
The Biggest Surprises of This Supreme Court Term
Even less explicable is why the chief justice and Justices Scalia and Samuel Alito—all alums of the Department of Justice, two of them in very ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»

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