interpretation

Roget-categorie 522

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

zelfstandig naamwoord

interpretation, definition — explanation, explication — solution, answer — rationale — plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation — meaning etc. 516.
translation — rendering, rendition — redition^† — literal translation, free translation — key — secret — clew etc. (indication) 550 — clavis^†, crib, pony, trot [U.S.].
exegesis — expounding, exposition — hermeneutics — comment, commentary — inference etc. (deduction) 480 — illustration, exemplification — gloss, annotation, scholium^†, note — elucidation, dilucidation^† — eclaircissement [Fr.], mot d'enigme [Fr.].
[methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology [Med.], semiology, semeiology^†, semiotics — metoposcopy^†, physiognomy — paleography etc. (philology) 560 — oneirology acception^†, acceptation, acceptance — light, reading, lection, construction, version.
equivalent, equivalent meaning etc. 516 — synonym — paraphrase, metaphrase^† — convertible terms, apposition — dictionary etc. 562 — polyglot.

werkwoord

interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render — do into, turn into — transfuse the sense of.
find out etc. 480.1 the meaning of, etc. 516 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 of etc. 153 — 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 etc. (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.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

explanatory, expository — explicative, explicatory — exegetical^† — construable.
polyglot — literal — paraphrastic, metaphrastic^† — consignificative^†, synonymous — equivalent etc. 27.

bijwoord

in explanation etc. 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.

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