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Princeton's WordNet

  1. spell outverb

    make explicit; specify in detail

    "You should spell out your demands"

  2. spell outverb

    spell fully and without abbreviating

    "Can you spell out your middle name instead of just giving the initial?"

  3. spell, spell outverb

    orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of

    "How do you spell this word?" "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"

Wiktionary

  1. spell outverb

    To form (a word) from its component letters.

  2. spell outverb

    To explain in a simple and understandable manner.

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Anagrams for spell out »

  1. outspell

  2. pollutes

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spell out in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spell out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of spell out in a Sentence

  1. Another NBA team official:

    The thing that I struggle with understanding is the whole point of having all these health protocols is to keep players safe, right? Why are there layers to this? If you spell out the rules and the players violate them, why would you (then) risk exposing them to their teammates? the NBA is trying to have it both ways. They are taking this [coronavirus] seriously; they have from the jump. But they want the players to not feel too restricted by the rules. What you wind up doing, you create more confusion to a process that's already kind of confusing because everything changes so quickly when it comes to what you can do and what you can't.

  2. Guillaume Debré:

    They are markings on sacred stones, that spell out hate and in this country, we understand what that means and what it can lead to, to my daughters it's just a peaceful area where their family comes from. It's difficult for them to understand that their family, that their grave has become a target of hate.

  3. Antony Blinken:

    Minsk does not spell out some issues of sequencing when it comes to the steps that the parties need to take.

  4. Pete Ricketts:

    UNL’s plan is also based on the flawed assumption that differences in outcomes among racial groups are the result of systemic racism and how people are treated based on skin color, the data, however, does n’t support this conclusion.The University’s plan makes the claim that racism is' often structural and embedded into systems,' however, it does not spell out specific examples of what this looks like at UNL besides vaguely stating there are.

  5. Peter Szijjarto:

    It is legitimate from an EU member state to spell out reform proposals, one of the most important merits of the EU is that it has very serious achievements, a part of which are related to a high level of freedom in the movement of labor.

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