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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of a happening |
| Synonyms: | adaptation, chronicle, clarification, condensation, construction, exercise, form, history, interpretation, narrative, paraphrase, portrayal, reading, redaction, rendering, rendition, report, restatement, rewording, side, simplification, sketch, statement, story, tale, transcription, translation, variant |
| Main Entry: | arrangement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | musical adaptation |
| Synonyms: | chart, composition, instrumentation, interpretation, lead sheet, orchestration, score, version |
| Main Entry: | chronicle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, narrative |
| Synonyms: | annals, archives, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | description |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | ABCs, blow by blow, brief, characterization, chronicle, confession, declaration, definition, delineation, depiction, detail, explanation, explication, fingerprint, information, make, monograph, narration, narrative, picture, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, recital, recitation, record, recountal, rehearsal, report, representation, rundown, sketch, specification, statement, story, summarization, summary, tale, version, vignette, writeup, yarn |
| Antonyms: | misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | draft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something formulated; plan |
| Synonyms: | abstract, blueprint, delineation, outline, preliminary form, rough sketch, version |
| Notes: | wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically |
| Main Entry: | edition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue of publication |
| Synonyms: | copy, impression, imprint, number, printing, program, publication, reissue, release, reprint, reprinting, version, volume |
| Main Entry: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chronicle of events |
| Synonyms: | account, annals, autobiography, biography, diary, epic, journal, memoirs, narration, narrative, prehistory, recapitulation, recital, record, relation, report, saga, story, tale, version |
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