Paraphrase vs Interpretation - What's the difference?
paraphrase | interpretation |
To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
(uncountable) The power of explaining.
(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
(countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
(countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
(countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
As nouns the difference between paraphrase and interpretation
is that paraphrase is a restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning while interpretation is an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.As a verb paraphrase
is to restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.paraphrase
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(wikipedia paraphrase)Derived terms
* paraphrastic * paraphrastical * paraphrasticallySee also
* Etymology of translation * metaphraseVerb
(paraphras)interpretation
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Noun
- the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
- Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''