explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple
interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning &c 516.
translation; rendering, rendition; redition†; literal translation,
free translation; key; secret; clew &c (indication) 550; clavis†, crib,
pony, trot [U.S.].
exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment,
commentary; inference &c (deduction) 480; illustration,
exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium†, note; elucidation,
dilucidation†; eclaircissement [Fr.], mot d'enigme [Fr.].
[methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology [Med.], semiology,
semeiology†, semiotics; metoposcopy†, physiognomy; paleography &c
(philology) 560; oneirology acception†, acceptation, acceptance; light,
reading, lection, construction, version.
equivalent, equivalent meaning &c 516; synonym; paraphrase,
metaphrase†; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary &c 562; polyglot.
V. interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into,
turn into; transfuse the sense of.
find out &c 480.1 the meaning of, &c 516 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 &c 153; 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 &c (render intelligible) 518.
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 &c 27.
Adv. in explanation &c n.; 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.