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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paraphrase \Par"a*phrase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paraphrased; p. pr. & vb. n. Paraphrasing.] To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language.
We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words.
--Bp.
Stillingfleet.
Paraphrase \Par"a*phrase\ (p[a^]r"[.a]*fr[=a]z), n. [L. paraphrasis, Gr. para`frasis, from parafra`zein to say the same thing in other words; para` beside + fra`zein to speak: cf. F. paraphrase. See Para-, and Phrase.] 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 metaphrase.
In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the
author's words are not so strictly followed as his
sense.
--Dryden.
Excellent paraphrases of the Psalms of David.
--I.
Disraeli.
His sermons a living paraphrase upon his practice.
--Sowth.
The Targums are also called the Chaldaic or Aramaic
Paraphrases.
--Shipley.
Paraphrase \Par"a*phrase\, v. i. To make a paraphrase.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from paraphrase (n.) or from French paraphraser. Related: Paraphrased; paraphrasing.
Wiktionary
n. A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning. vb. To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
WordNet
n. rewording for the purpose of clarification [syn: paraphrasis]
v. express the same message in different words [syn: rephrase, reword]
Wikipedia
Paraphrase may refer to:
- Paraphrasing of copyrighted material
- Paraphrase mass
- Biblical paraphrase
- Presbyterian paraphrases - traditional Presbyterian church songs
- Paraphrases of Erasmus
- Lunar Paraphrase
- Paraphrase of Shem
- The Heresy of Paraphrase
- The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente
- Given, Required, Analysis, Solution, and Paraphrase
A paraphrase is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words. The term itself is derived via Latin from Greek , meaning "additional manner of expression". The act of paraphrasing is also called "paraphrasis".
A paraphrase typically explains or clarifies the text that is being paraphrased. For example, "The signal was red" might be paraphrased as "The train was not allowed to pass because the signal was red". A paraphrase is usually introduced with verbum dicendi—a declaratory expression to signal the transition to the paraphrase. For example, in "The signal was red, that is, the train was not allowed to proceed," the that is signals the paraphrase that follows.
A paraphrase does not need to accompany a direct quotation, the paraphrase typically serves to put the source's statement into perspective or to clarify the context in which it appeared. A paraphrase is typically more detailed than a summary. One should add the source at the end of the sentence, for example: When the light was red, trains could not go (Wikipedia).
Paraphrase may attempt to preserve the essential meaning of the material being paraphrased. Thus, the (intentional or otherwise) reinterpretation of a source to infer a meaning that is not explicitly evident in the source itself qualifies as "original research," and not as paraphrase.
Unlike a metaphrase, which represents a "formal equivalent" of the source, a paraphrase represents a "dynamic equivalent" thereof. While a metaphrase attempts to translate a text literally, a paraphrase conveys the essential thought expressed in a source text, if necessary, at the expense of literality. For details, see dynamic and formal equivalence.
The term is applied to the genre of Biblical paraphrases, which were the most widely circulated versions of the Bible available in medieval Europe. Here, the purpose was not to render an exact rendition of the meaning or the complete text, but to present material from the Bible in a version that was theologically orthodox and not subject to heretical interpretation, or, in most cases, to take from the Bible and present to a wide public material that was interesting, entertaining and spiritually meaningful, or, simply to abridge the text.
The phrase "in your own words" is often used within this context to imply that the writer has rewritten the text in their own writing style - how they would have written it if they had created the idea. Nowadays, there are some models to learn and recognize paraphrase on natural language texts.
Usage examples of "paraphrase".
May Day festival service, celebrated by a choir of birds, who sing an ingenious, but what must have seemed in those days a more than slightly profane, paraphrase or parody of the matins for Trinity Sunday, to the praise of Cupid.
The stanzas which follow contain a paraphrase of the matins for Trinity Sunday, allegorically setting forth the doctrine that love is the all-controlling influence in the government of the universe.
He used to recite all the articles in the Ministerialist journals, as if he were saying something original, and in giving his opinion at the Council Board he paraphrased the remarks of the previous speaker.
You alone are easy to write to, perfect audience, someone who will see, in the weak paraphrase I here throw together, that I am building my apology explaining why I could not become a sketcher in this world.
To paraphrase Johnny Speight, he did not trouble me and I did not trouble him.
To paraphrase Nietzsche, there are two types of Greek: the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
The need to see everyone at the same level, gargling in the same ratrace choir, to paraphrase Dylan.
The specifications and pictures of the terrors and distresses provided in the various hells are vivid in the extreme, including ingenious paraphrases of every sort of penalty and pang known in Egypt.
To paraphrase a close associate of mine, he knows that neither of us would harm a hair of his head, much less this station!
In the former he writes a very pure Russian, and though he submits to the eighteenth-century fashion of paraphrase, he conveys his idea with almost scientific precision.
More than one lusty warrior-in-training was knocked atumbling by the boy, and the bigger they were, to paraphrase the shaggy adage, the farther they tumbled.
She might have paraphrased the mental attitude of the immortalised Peter Bell into A basket underneath a tree A yellow tiger is to me, If it is nothing more.
Joel read it slowly and paraphrased it for Marcus, and when he finished, both men sat for a long time and cursed lawyers in general.
His early life was involved with the myths, legends, shamanism of his people, and since this background was still a strong element in his character, I tried to show this by interspersing in the narrative my paraphrases of different sections of the Navajo creation myth and other appropriate legendary material.
Less pleased with the learned reading than at the opportunity to begin a correspondence with someone who might help me in my plan of escape (which I had already sketched out in my head), I opened the book as soon as Lawrence was gone, and was overjoyed to find on one of the leaves the maxim of Seneca, 'Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius', paraphrased in six elegant verses.