|n.||1.||A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; - opposed to |
In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense.
|v. t.||1.||To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language.|
|v. i.||1.||To make a paraphrase.|
|Noun||1.||paraphrase - rewording for the purpose of clarification|
|Verb||1.||paraphrase - express the same message in different words|