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interpretation

Roget category 522

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
4.8. Nature of ideas communicated
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#522. Interpretation

noun

interpretation, definitionexplanation, explicationsolution, answerrationaleplain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretationmeaning etc. 516.
translationrendering, renditionreditionliteral translation, free translationkeysecretclew etc. (indication) 550clavis, crib, pony, trot [U.S.].
exegesisexpounding, expositionhermeneuticscomment, commentaryinference etc. (deduction) 480illustration, exemplificationgloss, annotation, scholium, noteelucidation, dilucidationeclaircissement [Fr.], mot d'enigme [Fr.].
[methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology [Med.], semiology, semeiology, semioticsmetoposcopy, physiognomypaleography etc. (philology) 560oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptancelight, reading, lection, construction, version.
equivalent, equivalent meaning etc. 516synonymparaphrase, metaphraseconvertible terms, appositiondictionary etc. 562polyglot.

verb

interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, renderdo into, turn intotransfuse the sense of.
find out etc. 480.1 the meaning of, etc. 516 readspell out, make outdecipher, unravel, disentanglefind the key of, enucleate, resolve, solveread between the lines.
account forfind the cause, tell the cause of etc. 153throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light uponclear up, clarify, elucidate.
illustrate, exemplifyunfold, expound, comment upon, annotatepopularize etc. (render intelligible) 518.
take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive in a particular sense, accept in a particular senseunderstand by, put a construction on, be given to understand.

adjective

explanatory, expositoryexplicative, explicatoryexegeticalconstruable.
polyglotliteralparaphrastic, metaphrasticconsignificative, synonymousequivalent etc. 27.

adverb

in explanation etc. n. — that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words.
literally, strictly speakingin plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer Englishmore simply.

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