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(adj)
Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
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(v)
(transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.
Characterized by attention to detail and thoroughness of treatment.
(transitive) To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length.
(n)
The imagination.
(archaic) Carried in different ways, spread, abroad, dispersed, published.
(transitive) To make (something) larger.
Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
(transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
Abundant in growth or detail.
(idiomatic, transitive) To complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure, or skeleton.
(ambitransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
(intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
(sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of rarefy. [(transitive) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense.]
Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
Difficult or convoluted.
Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose.
Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy. [from 17th c.]
Painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail.
Of a person, displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.
Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.
(transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.
(intransitive) To become broad or broader.
Thorough; comprehensive.
Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
(loosely) Both exact and accurate.
(transitive) To make deep or deeper
artful; scheming
(of processes) Developed, improved.
Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
(transitive) To make small adjustments to (something) until it is optimal.
(figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
(transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
(transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
In the process of development.
(obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.
(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
(followed by the preposition to) Disposed, willing, ready (to do something).
(figuratively) Complex, complicated, or intricate.
(intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will
(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.
(transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
Clear; effective.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(transitive, law) To make (a bill) into law.
(transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
(transitive) To create.
(transitive, sometimes with 'of') To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
Fixed in position.
To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
Serving to define or distinguish.
(transitive) To state in items, or by particulars
(transitive) To represent in words.
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
(transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
At or close to the state of the art.
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
That disappears below the horizon.
(transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
The act by which something is established; establishment.
(transitive) To put into a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
preparation
To reproduce in a new form.
A general description of some subject.
(by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.
(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
The act or process of producing a technical drawing, or draft.
Composed of elements; not simple.
(said of a country) wealthy and industrialized; not third-world.
A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
(Canada) A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
(not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
(transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
To form or create with concerted effort.
(transitive) To change or transform (something).
(transitive) To give a definite or precise form to (something).
expanded in scope
devised; developed according to an orderly plan