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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rephrase
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rephrase a question (=ask it in a different way)
▪ He didn’t answer, so I rephrased my question.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
question
▪ Instead, we rephrase the question and ask how the category operates in practice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ OK. Let me rephrase the question.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As in the case of internal parasites, we should now rephrase the whole matter in terms of genes and extended phenotypes.
▪ I hope, Madam Deputy Speaker, that my comments were not out of order or tasteless, but I shall rephrase them.
▪ I may, thought Claudel, have to rephrase my report.
▪ Instead, we rephrase the question and ask how the category operates in practice.
▪ It helps to rephrase words and terms.
▪ It is permissible, even desirable, to edit and rephrase the statement so that it is clear and well structured.
▪ The Minister ought to rephrase that remark.
▪ We can rephrase Jenkin's argument in a more neutral analogy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rephrase

1872, from re- "again" + phrase (v.). Related: Rephrased; rephrasing.

Wiktionary
rephrase

vb. To find a different way to say something(jump rephrase s)

WordNet
rephrase

v. express the same message in different words [syn: paraphrase, reword]

Usage examples of "rephrase".

They were phrased and rephrased, applied and misapplied, tried out in every possible and impossible way.

Trent found himself backtracking, answering questions about subjects he had already lied about, fielding questions about other almost entirely unrelated subjects, reanswering rephrased questions he had already lied about twice.

Quicklybefore the trilateral decided his incompletely translated words were just mindless babble after allhe rephrased his answer.

I was trying to rephrase GIVE SOURCES in Algol when the readout began clacking again.

Our aim is to find ways of reducing the Bernoulli Interval to zero: that is, to make guesses of ever-increasing accuracy on the basis of an ever-decreasing statistical sample, or, to put it another way, to move from probabilistic to absolute prediction, or, rephrasing it yet again, to replace guesswork with clairvoyance.

And every measure of time, from planetary orbits to the vibrations of nuclei, could ultimately be rephrased as a count of the changes between the graphs describing space at two different moments.

As a number of us had already realized, it turns out that in the mirror rephrasing it appears that string physics is perfectly well behaved and encounters no catastrophes.

Although the bomb experience highlights the essence of his idea, it is worth rephrasing it in a framework closer to that of Chapter 2.

In clumsy but ultimately useful language, we can rephrase this by saying that the amplitudes of all waves that pass through the region are zero, exactly.

The difference, however, is that a mirror rephrasing of this sort results in the antisymmetric tensor field Bμv —the real part of the complexified Kähler form on the mirror Calabi-Yau space—vanishing, and this is a far more drastic sort of singularity than that discussed in Chapter 11.

Dion Croser—let me rephrase that—Senator Dion Croser is now their representative in the legislature.

Would it help if I rephrased that, and said that he claims to have found an important new conservation law?

Thus, we can finally rephrase the question about the modern world's inequalities as follows: why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?

This whole matter no doubt sounds like a tempest in a teapot, particularly as Gold did not change the story line but merely monkeyed with dialog, rephrased sentences and such-in short, edited the style.

He reconsidered that before adding, "Let me rephrase that: You need me?