Interpretation
Interpretation
#522. Interpretation. -- N. interpretation, definition; explanation,
explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple
interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning &c. 516.
- translation; rendering, rendition; redition[obs]; literal
translation, free translation; key; secret; clew &c. (indication) 550;
clavis[obs], crib, pony, trot [U.S.].
- exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary;
inference &c. (deduction) 480; illustration, exemplification; gloss,
annotation, scholium[obs], note; elucidation, dilucidation|;
eclaircissement[Fr], mot d'enigme[Fr].
- [methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology[Med], semiology,
semeiology[obs], semiotics; metoposcopy[obs], physiognomy; paleography
&c. (philology) 560; oneirology
- acception[obs], acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection,
construction, version.
- equivalent, equivalent meaning &c. 516; synonym; paraphrase,
metaphrase[obs]; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary &c. 562;
polyglot.
- V. interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into,
turn into; transfuse the sense of.
- find out &c. 480a the meaning &c. 516 of; read; spell out, make out;
decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve;
read between the lines.
- account for; find the cause, tell the cause &c. 153 of;
throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light
upon; clear up, clarify, elucidate.
- illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate;
popularize &c. (render intelligible) 518.
- take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive
in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense; understand by, put a
construction on, be given to understand.
- Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory;
exegetical[obs]; construable.
- polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic[obs];
consignificative[obs], synonymous; equivalent &c. 27.
- Adv. in explanation &c. n.; that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit,
namely, in other words.
- literally, strictly speaking; in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer
words, in plainer English; more simply.