(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language.
(v. i.) To make a paraphrase.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(2) But this was an occasion to exhale or, to paraphrase Advocaat, let it all hang out.
(3) Even towards the end of her life, Taylor, despite near incapacitation, still not only understood the increasingly ridiculous celebrity world, but proved that – to paraphrase a quote from her most photographed role – age could not wither her.
(4) more to respond affirmatively to "implicit" sentences than to ones that quoted or paraphrased the passage.
(5) With it was a covering letter from a senior MI5 officer, who explained that “we had obtained sight, by secret and delicate means, of a long and reasoned denunciation of the leadership of the British Communist party by one of their best-known intellectuals”, and asking that it not be used without being paraphrased.
(6) In addition, task-related behavior seems to be more important in medical technical behavior, whereas socio-emotional behavior, and especially the psychotherapeutic categories like reflecting, paraphrasing, showing agreement, and others, seem to be more important in the other quality measures.
(7) There were no difficulties in comprehension, dysarthria, or phonemic paraphrasing, but speech and graphic expression were incoherent.
(8) What is truly remarkable is that, as your correspondent paraphrased it, "it is an arrestable offence to refuse to answer any question" ( Letters , 20 August).
(9) The BMJ entered the statin debate in 2013, publishing an article that said (I paraphrase) that the benefits of statins were overstated, while their side-effects were undercooked.
(10) There are hundreds of thousands of us out there living with dementia who – to paraphrase the song in the advert – every now and again really could do with a little help from a friend.
(11) In a statement released later on Wednesday by China’s foreign ministry about the meeting, Li was paraphrased as saying China was willing to work with Asean countries in “dispelling interference ... and properly handling the South China Sea issue”.
(12) Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) Paraphrasing Bernanke answer to Q1: we're not saying how much QE we're going to do because, really, who knows how this sh*t works?
(13) That's the one where Alexi turns up at family businesses, with amazing biceps in a Max Mara frock and says (I'm paraphrasing) "If you lot weren't such a bunch of pass-agg douchebags, you wouldn't need to expand into sex phonelines.
(14) A wise academic once said, (I paraphrase) public service consumers have three options: exit, voice and loyalty.
(15) To paraphrase a famous quote, one could say that today we have the "new Pole" and the "old Pole".
(16) The patriarchy isn't going to smash itself, to paraphrase Habermas (sort of), but nor is it so entrenched that it cannot be overturned by sustained, informed argumentation.
(17) For instance, if a student asked you which way you voted in a general election, you could simply state that you don’t want to bias their opinion, and could even paraphrase the 1996 act.
(18) As the febrile arguments raged on the internet, some observers may have been tempted to paraphrase Henry Kissinger: the politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
(19) To paraphrase the revolutionary writer Thomas Paine, these politicians are simply sunshine opportunists, who expect Latino voters to support them in good times, but when the going gets tough, they abandon Latinos and their issues as fast as you can say ‘piñata’.
(20) To paraphrase Winston Churchill, the genome project was not the end.
Rewrite
Definition:
(v. t.) To write again.
Example Sentences:
(1) The French data protection commissioner, the CNIL, led the inquiry and said that Google in effect let users pick and choose how their data was used among different services such as Gmail, Youtube and Google+ – a dramatic rewrite of the single privacy policy Google introduced in March.
(2) So, unless he is planning to rewrite the spending review, Osborne can have little of significance to say on spending.
(3) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
(4) It's fascinating, but above all it proves to be indispensable when it comes to judging how a vote will go, or in rewriting an amendment as a compromise.
(5) Because I work in the community and am based at a different NHS trust I then have to duplicate the assessment information to rewrite it on my own trust’s electronic system.
(6) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
(7) They will certainly dissect every word of your upcoming book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success.
(8) Barack Obama is expected to address the threat posed by North Korea in hisstate of the union speech on Tuesday evening after news of Pyongyang's third underground nuclear test triggered some last-minute rewriting of the text.
(9) Hollande sparked concern in Britain with the launch his 60-point manifesto last week, when he said he was prepared to tear up and rewrite the EU fiscal treaty to impose more financial rigour on member states.
(10) As the storm rages, the keepers of the euro flame have lined up to offer radical ways to rewrite the single currency's rules to make the project more viable in the long term.
(11) There was a microcosm of that in the late rewrite of the section of the speech on debt.
(12) World War Z was beset with problems during its production, involving rewrites and the whole 40-minute third act being reshot , but the struggle proved worth it as the film made $540m worldwide earlier this year.
(13) "The genius is never in the writing, it's in the rewriting," says Rodgers.
(14) Where now is a Maynard Keynes to rewrite The Economic Consequences of the Peace ?
(15) When I rewrite my book I will be more generous because I believe that for at least a good portion of the second term she was probably covering for her husband and trying to help him.
(16) One of the big flashpoints at the Liberal NSW state council meeting was a push by the Warringah conference to rewrite the party’s constitution to reflect John Howard’s proposal to introduce plebiscites involving all local members to decide on preselections in all state and federal seats.
(17) His speech to the King's Fund last week made plain his game: having decided that the Labour's 2004 GP contract is the source of problems ranging from poor care of older people to A&E pressures, he is going to rewrite it by next April, sweeping away bureaucracy and securing a "dramatic simplification" of targets and incentives.
(18) Writing in the Observer under the headline "Michael Gove, using history for politicking is tawdry" , Hunt seethes, "the government is using what should be a moment for national reflection and respectful debate to rewrite the historical record and sow political division."
(19) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
(20) Respect [for] the electoral calendar as fixed by the constitution is central to the debate.” Many African presidents have tried to stay in power by rewriting their countries’ constitutions to lose the limits on presidential terms.