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translation - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | translation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rewording; interpretation |
| Synonyms: | adaptation, construction, crib*, elucidation, explanation, gloss, key, paraphrase, reading, rendition, version, decoding, metaphrase, rendering, rephrasing, restatement, simplification, transcription, transliteration |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, adaptation |
| Synonyms: | about-face*, alteration, change of heart, changeover, exchange, flip-flop*, flux, growth, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, novelty, passage, passing, permutation, progress, qualification, reclamation, reconstruction, reformation, reorganization, resolution, reversal, switch, transformation, translation, transmutation, born again, metanoia, metasis, proselytization, regeneration, remodelling, resolving, see the light, transfiguration, transmogrification, turning, turning around |
| Antonyms: | idleness, sameness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | definition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
| Synonyms: | annotation, answer, clarification, clue, comment, commentary, cue, delineation, demarcation, denotation, determination, diagnosis, drift, elucidation, explanation, exposition, fixing, gloss, interpretation, key, outlining, rationale, rendition, representation, solution, terminology, translation, analogue, characterization, delimitation, exemplification, explication, expounding, formalization, individuation, rendering, settling, signification, statement of meaning |
| Antonyms: | ambiguity, nonsense, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | interpretation |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | metamorphosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversion, transformation |
| Synonyms: | alteration, change, changeover, evolution, mutation, rebirth, translation, transmutation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transmogrification, transubstantiation |
| Antonyms: | stagnation |
| Main Entry: | reading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interpretation of written word |
| Synonyms: | account, commentary, conception, construction, edification, education, erudition, examination, grasp, impression, inspection, knowledge, learning, lesson, paraphrase, perusal, rendition, review, scholarship, scrutiny, study, translation, treatment, understanding, version, book-learning, rendering |
| Antonyms: | writing |
| Main Entry: | rendition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation; interpretation |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, construction, delivery, depiction, execution, interpretation, performance, portrayal, presentation, reading, translation, version, rendering, transcription |
| Antonyms: | obscurity, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | transcript |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | copy |
| Synonyms: | carbon copy*, ditto*, duplicate, facsimile, hard copy, imprint, manuscript, minutes, notes, print, record, recording, reproduction, translation, mimeograph, recorded material, reprint, transcription |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | transfer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change of possession |
| Synonyms: | alteration, assignment, deportation, move, removal, shift, substitution, translation, transmission, variation, conduction, convection, displacement, relegation, relocation, transference, transmittal, transposition |
| Antonyms: | hold, keeping |
| Main Entry: | version |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of a happening |
| Synonyms: | adaptation, chronicle, clarification, condensation, construction, exercise, form, history, interpretation, narrative, paraphrase, portrayal, reading, rendition, report, side, sketch, statement, story, tale, translation, variant, redaction, rendering, restatement, rewording, simplification, transcription |
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information transmitted |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, information, intelligence, language, message, missive, news, note, précis, prophecy, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work, communiqué, hot story, ideas, info, inside story, lowdown, pipeline, poop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, definition, exegesis, exposé, exposition, inference, interpretation, reading, rendition, translation, version, construal, explication, rendering |
| Main Entry: | gloss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | definition |
| Synonyms: | annotation, comment, commentary, elucidation, explanation, footnote, interpretation, note, translation |
| Antonyms: | misinformation |
| Main Entry: | key |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | answer, solution |
| Synonyms: | blueprint, brand, cipher, clue, code, core, crux, cue, earmark, explanation, guide, hinge, index, indicator, interpretation, lead, lever, marker, means, nexus, nucleus, passport, password, pivot, pointer, root, sign, symptom, ticket, translation, fulcrum |
| Antonyms: | question |
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