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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | analysis, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, clarification, comprehension, discernment, explanation, grasp, grip, insight, judgment, knowing, meaning, perception, reading, slant, translation |
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| Concept: | Interpretation. |
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-nouns
interpretation, definition; explanation, explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning., translation; rendering, rendition; redition; literal translation, free translation; key; secret; clue, clew (indication); clavis, crib, pony [U.S.]., exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary; inference (deduction); illustration, exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium, note; elucidation, dilucidation; eclaircissement, mot d'enigme., symptomatology, semeiology; metoposcopy, physiognomy; paleography (philology); oneirology, acception, acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection, construction, version., equivalent, equivalent meaning [more]; synonym; paraphrase, metaphrase; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary; polyglot.
-verbs
interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into, turn into; transfuse the sense of., find out the meaning 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 [more] of; throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon; clear up, elucidate., illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate; popularize (render intelligible)., 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.
-adjectives
explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical; construable., polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic; consignificative, synonymous; equivalent.
-adverbs
in explanation; 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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| Antonyms: | misinterpretation |
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| Main Entry: | analysis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | statement of results from examination |
| Synonyms: | estimation, evaluation, finding, interpretation, judgment, opinion, outline, reasoning, report, study, summary |
| Notes: | analysis is breaking down or taking apart; synthesis is bringing together |
| Main Entry: | annotation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanatory note |
| Synonyms: | comment, commentary, definition, elucidation, exegesis, explanation, explication, footnote, gloss, glossary, illustration, interpretation, note, observation |
| Antonyms: | blank |
| Main Entry: | answer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reply; reaction |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, antiphon, back talk, backcap, band-aid, close, comeback, comment, cooler, counterclaim, crack, defense, disclosure, echo, elucidation, explanation, feedback, guff, interpretation, justification, key, lip, observation, parting shot, pay dirt, plea, quick fix, rebuttal, refutation, rejoinder, remark, repartee, report, resolution, response, result, retort, return, rhetorical question, riposte, sign, solution, statement, thank-you note, the ticket, topper, vindication, wisecrack |
| Notes: | an answer is something said, written, or done in return; a reply is an answer that satisfies a detail in a question |
| Antonyms: | question |
| Main Entry: | arrangement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | musical adaptation |
| Synonyms: | chart, composition, instrumentation, interpretation, lead sheet, orchestration, score, version |
| Main Entry: | clarification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation |
| Synonyms: | description, elucidation, exposition, illumination, interpretation, resolution, simplification, solution, unravelment, vivification |
| Antonyms: | complication, misunderstanding, muddle |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
| Synonyms: | apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, construal, definition, exegesis, explication, exposition, exposé, inference, interpretation, reading, rendering, rendition, translation, version |
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