Paraphrase

Noun

 * 1) a restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning
 * 2) a similar restatement as an educational exercise

Derived terms

 * paraphrastic
 * paraphrastical
 * paraphrastically

Verb

 * 1) to restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase

Adjectives for Paraphrase
harmonic; unique; ingenious; stilted; silly; worthless.

Adverbs for Paraphrase
skillfully; satirically; ingeniously; uniquely; harmoniously; smoothly; studiously.

Thesaurus
amplification, bilingual text, burlesque, clavis, copy, crib, decipherment, decoding, dummy, duplication, explain, explicate, facsimile, faithful translation, free translation, gloss, glossary, imitation, interlinear, interlinear translation, key, knockoff, loose translation, metaphrase, mock-up, model, paraphrasis, parody, pony, rehash, rendering, rendition, rephrase, rephrasing, replica, representation, reproduction, restate, restatement, reword, rewording, rewrite, rewriting, summarize, transcribe, transcription, translation, transliteration, travesty, trot, version

Noun

 * French:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: пересказ, парафраз, парафраза
 * Spanish: paráfrasis
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 釋義, 释义,  意譯,  意译,   復述,  复述
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Japanese: 言い換える, 引用する


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: parafraza, perifraza
 * Russian: парафразировать,  пересказывать
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: