different between chronicle vs explanation

English

Etymology

From Middle English cronicle, cronycle, from Anglo-Norman cronicle, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek ???????? (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from ?????? (khrónos, “time”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??n?k?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kr?n?kl?/
• Hyphenation: chron?i?cle

Noun

chronicle (plural chronicles)

1. A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.

Usage notes

• Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle.

Synonyms

• (account of events and when they happened): annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version

Related terms

• chronicler
• Chronicles
• chronist; Chronist; chronistically
• chronistic; Chronistic
• chronology; chronological

Translations

Verb

chronicle (third-person singular simple present chronicles, present participle chronicling, simple past and past participle chronicled)

1. To record in or as in a chronicle.

Synonyms

• (record in a chronicle): record

English

Alternative forms

• explaination (misspelling or obsolete spelling)

Etymology

From Latin explanatio (“an explanation, interpretation”), from explanare (“explain”); see explain.

Morphologically explain +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kspl??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

explanation (countable and uncountable, plural explanations)

1. The act or process of explaining.

   The explanation was long and drawn-out.

2. Something that explains, makes understandable.

   An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found.

3. A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.

Synonyms

• (act or process of explaining): clarification; elucidation; elaboration; explaining; femsplaining (pej., particularly by a feminist to a man); mansplaining, mansplanation (pej., particularly by a man to a woman)

Related terms

• explain
• explanatory
• explicative
• explicator
• explicatory

Translations

Further reading

• explanation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• explanation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.