(n.) A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase.
(n.) An answering phrase; repartee.
Example Sentences:
Repartee
Definition:
(n.) A smart, ready, and witty reply.
(v. i.) To make smart and witty replies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The man who cannot hold his own in repartee will even learn other men's jokes off by heart, so that he can fill a void in the general banter.
(2) Imagine, if you will, Crabb, her basket crammed with scones and jam, rapping on the security gates at Eddie Obeid’s sprawling residence and then exchanging witty repartee while he works the stoves.
(3) During his first two stints as president, the former KGB agent demonstrated his gift at G8 gatherings and other international get-togethers for sardonic repartee mixed with snide remarks about western hypocrisy and double-dealing.
(4) Like other despots, Putin doesn’t have a sense of humour (though he can do sardonic repartee).
(5) In Stage Door (1937), she had wonderful battles of repartee with Ginger Rogers.
(6) And while the repartee goes on he is actually producing a painting: "I am trying to make a W out of cats," he says, twirling his brush.
(7) The tools of his trade are not manifestos and "worked-up" policies, but a pleasant face, a winning smile, some eye contact and cheery repartee.
(8) (The bizarre knot of branches top left in that Triumph of Pan and the foreboding chunk of pediment signing off The Triumph of David feel like Poussin's attempts at repartee.)
(9) It is surely no coincidence that, during their delightful repartee about the female assistant referee Sian Massey and the West Ham United vice-chairman Karren Brady, the disgraced duo similarly dismissed the female gender as "they".
(10) Pride and Prejudice is carefree in comparison, matching witty, warring lovers who act out their attraction in ironical repartee.
(11) Women are at least as intelligent as men, and they have as vivid and ready a perception of the absurd; but they have not developed the arts of fooling, clowning, badinage, repartee, burlesque and innuendo into a semi-continuous performance as so many men have.
(12) Never failing to laugh at the witty repartee, this tournament has been grand, and I do not care why.