N. interpretation, definition, explanation,
explication, solution, answer,
rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering,
rendition,
redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret,
clew,
clavis,
crib,
pony,
trot,
exegesis,
expounding, exposition,
hermeneutics, comment,
commentary, inference, illustration,
exemplification,
gloss,
annotation,
scholium, note,
elucidation, dilucidation|,
eclaircissement, mot d'enigme,
symptomatology,
semiology,
semeiology,
semiotics,
metoposcopy,
physiognomy,
paleography, oneirology acception,
acceptation, acceptance, light, reading,
lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning,
synonym,
paraphrase,
metaphrase, convertible terms,
apposition, dictionary,
polyglot V. interpret, explain,
define,
construe,
translate, render, do into, turn into, transfuse the sense of, find out the meaning of, 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, 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, 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
Adj. explanatory,
expository,
explicative,
explicatory,
exegetical, construable,
polyglot,
literal,
paraphrastic,
metaphrastic,
consignificative,
synonymous, equivalent
Adv. in explanation, 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
N. dissertation, treatise, essay,
thesis,
theme,
monograph, tract,
tractate,
tractation, discourse, memoir,
disquisition,
lecture,
sermon,
homily,
pandect,
excursus,
commentary, review,
critique, criticism, article, leader, leading article,
editorial, running commentary, investigation, study, discussion, exposition,
commentator, critic,
essayist,
pamphleteer V. expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject, treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject, hold forth, discourse, delve into
