Adjective : elaborate preparations; elaborate care.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : to elaborate upon a theme or an idea.    From Dictionary.com. 

Sunday, Irvin elaborated: No one is perfect as a person.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS' Davis gives Knight some advice] Reference

Its technology is a stroke of genius that has been elaborated from the DS-164.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calligaris Opens Flagship Store in Milan, Italy] Reference

A day later, Palin elaborated on her support in a race that proved embarrassing to the GOP establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Palin's Election Scorecard] Reference

Our dependence upon them, for the sort of plans we have elaborated, is indicated by a recent press dispatch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lesson of Iraq] Reference

Mr. McCain elaborated on his and Ms. Hazelbaker’s original remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Now Criticizes Obama for Travels - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

"What we've seen is that both opponents have kind of elaborated their opposition further, rather than trying to come together," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

"elaborated" by the U. N.'s top environmental managers.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOXNews.com] Reference

He elaborated in an interview with NEWSWEEK's Jennifer Barrett.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of Childhood Obesity] Reference

But having, in the article "Pioneer," sufficiently elaborated the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

A drunken brawl gets half a column, with every detail elaborated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

And in 1987 he elaborated: "" I am neither a conservative nor a reformer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosopher And The Pragmatist] Reference

After the formal session had concluded, Barbour elaborated on what he meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why does Haley Barbour think we don't 'know' Obama?] Reference

Chinese architecture elaborated in the deep seclusion of mountain and forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

These were explained and elaborated upon by thinkers, sages, saints, and poets.    From Wordnik.com.  [William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Meaning of Islam] Reference

These were not brief addresses from a railway car, but fully elaborated speeches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

It has been elaborated with passion and power in the 'Homeward Bound' of Adelaide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Speaking to interviewer Laura Brown, King elaborated on his favorite style preferences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry King Talks Fashion, Women With Harper's Bazaar] Reference

As new techniques are developed, or new fields explored, it will be elaborated and expanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Sabotage Field Manual] Reference

In his interview with Amanpour today, Blair elaborated, saying you can't "dismiss" Cheney's view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair On Afghanistan, Attacking Iran, And Dick Cheney's Post-9/11 Worldview (VIDEO)] Reference

The early syndicalists developed some of the ideas which later thinkers have elaborated upon, I suppose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolution] Reference

If you like, we will search together for the person who can have elaborated that little piece of villany.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In an e-mail to Talking Points Memo, Ramsey elaborated on his thoughts on one of the world's oldest religions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Ramsey, Tenn. Lt. Gov: Islam May Not Be A Religion (VIDEO)] Reference

As one of Qum's most important scholars, he elaborated Khomeini's theological condemnation of the shah's regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ayatollah’s Inspiration] Reference

It had first been thought of several weeks before, and then the plan and the details had been slowly elaborated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

One narrative blends into another, one revelation is enhanced, undercut, and/or elaborated by what went just before.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Scarborough: Bail Me Out, the Hudson Guild Theatre] Reference

As Abizaid elaborated his clear-eyed vision of the war, the uncomfortable paradox of the occupation grew more apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: Supporting The Troops] Reference

Instead of retreating, he elaborated on sociobiology in a 1978 book called "On Human Nature," which won a Pulitzer Prize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson's World] Reference

Wen has brought up the subject of political reform in recent public appearances, but hasn't elaborated on specific changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Vows Fairness to Foreign Firms] Reference

An expression of bland courtesy lay upon his features; all the proprieties of life were elaborated in his slightest movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Here the principles are elucidated, the arguments advanced and properly established or the descriptions elaborated and finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

In the late 1970s she published a guide to the subject that elaborated on Mitford's famous list of upper class "U" and "non-U terms".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jump! by Jilly Cooper] Reference

Speaking metaphorically, Mr. Bennett elaborated: "When Mitch had a cigar and a beard, everybody else had to have a cigar and a beard.".    From Wordnik.com.  [They Sang Along With Mitch] Reference

It combines the excitement that ever attends the intricate and hazardous schemes of a detective, together with as cunningly elaborated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

BP officials have not elaborated on other options, but those could include using the well simply to test whether the reservoir is plugged.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP Pumps Cement Into Blown-Out Well] Reference

He joined in the general laugh at his own expense, hearing the sally repeated and elaborated until it drifted out of conversational range.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Life] Reference

But such ideas are not to the taste of the ruling classes, and they have elaborated a whole system of pseudo-science to teach the contrary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference