| Main Entry: | translation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rewording; interpretation |
Synonyms: |
adaptation, construction, crib*, decoding, elucidation, explanation, gloss, key, metaphrase, paraphrase, reading, rendering, rendition, rephrasing, restatement, simplification, transcription, transliteration, version |
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information transmitted |
Synonyms: |
account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, communiqué, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, hot story, ideas, info, information, inside story, intelligence, language, lowdown, message, missive, news, note, pipeline, poop, prophecy, précis, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work |
| 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: | conversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, adaptation |
Synonyms: |
about-face, alteration, born again, change of heart, changeover, exchange, flip-flop, flux, growth, innovation, metamorphosis, metanoia, metasis, modification, novelty, passage, passing, permutation, progress, proselytization, qualification, reclamation, reconstruction, reformation, regeneration, remodelling, reorganization, resolution, resolving, reversal, see the light, switch, transfiguration, transformation, translation, transmogrification, transmutation, turning, turning around |
Antonyms: |
idleness, sameness |
| Main Entry: | definition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
Synonyms: |
analogue, annotation, answer, characterization, clarification, clue, comment, commentary, cue, delimitation, delineation, demarcation, denotation, determination, diagnosis, drift, elucidation, exemplification, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, fixing, formalization, gloss, individuation, interpretation, key, outlining, rationale, rendering, rendition, representation, settling, signification, solution, statement of meaning, terminology, translation |
Antonyms: |
ambiguity, nonsense, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | gloss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | definition |
Synonyms: |
annotation, comment, commentary, elucidation, explanation, footnote, interpretation, note, translation |
Antonyms: |
misinformation |
| 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: | key |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | answer, solution |
Synonyms: |
blueprint, brand, cipher, clue, code, core, crux, cue, earmark, explanation, fulcrum, guide, hinge, index, indicator, interpretation, lead, lever, marker, means, nexus, nucleus, passport, password, pivot, pointer, root, sign, symptom, ticket, translation |
Antonyms: |
question |
| Main Entry: | metamorphosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversion, transformation |
Synonyms: |
alteration, change, changeover, evolution, mutation, rebirth, transfiguration, transfigurement, translation, transmogrification, transmutation, transubstantiation |
Antonyms: |
stagnation |
| Main Entry: | reading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interpretation of written word |
Synonyms: |
account, book-learning, commentary, conception, construction, edification, education, erudition, examination, grasp, impression, inspection, knowledge, learning, lesson, paraphrase, perusal, rendering, rendition, review, scholarship, scrutiny, study, translation, treatment, understanding, version |
Antonyms: |
writing |