Roget's Thesaurus

#522. Interpretation

Nouns

interpretation, definition; explanation, explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning etc. 516. translation; rendering, rendition; redition; literal translation, free translation; key; secret; clew etc. (indication) 550; clavis, crib, pony, trot [U.S.]. exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary; inference etc. (deduction) 480; illustration, exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium, note; elucidation, dilucidation; eclaircissement [Fr.], mot d'enigme [Fr.]. [methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology [Med.], semiology, semeiology, semiotics; metoposcopy, physiognomy; paleography etc. (philology) 560; oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection, construction, version. equivalent, equivalent meaning etc. 516; synonym; paraphrase, metaphrase; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary etc. 562; polyglot.

Verbs

interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into, turn into; transfuse the sense of. find out etc. 480a the meaning of, etc. 516 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 of etc. 153; throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon; clear up, clarify, elucidate. illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate; popularize etc. (render intelligible) 518. 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 etc. 27.

Adverbs

in explanation etc. n.; 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.