Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
27. Adv. in explanation &c. n.; that is to say, id est, videlicet, to
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wit, namely, in other words. literally, strictly speaking; in plain, in
plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English; more simply.
#523. Misinterpretation.—N. misinterpretation, misapprehension,
misunderstanding, misacceptation|, misconstruction, misapplication;
catachresis[obs3]; eisegesis[obs3]; cross-reading, cross-purposes;
mistake &c. 495. misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration &c. 549;
false coloring, false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty;
falsification &c. (lying) 544. V. misinterpret, misapprehend,
misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue,
misapply; mistake &c. 495. misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly,
misstate; garble &c. (falsify) 544; distort, detort|; travesty, play
upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning,
strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away;
put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false
coloring. be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes. Adj.
misinterpreted &c. v.; untranslated, untranslatable.
#524. Interpreter.—N. interpreter; expositor, expounder, exponent,
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explainer; demonstrator.
scholiast, commentator, annotator; metaphrast[obs3],
paraphrast[obs3];
glossarist[obs3], prolocutor.
spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece.
dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman;
oneirocritic[obs3]; (Edipus; oracle &c. 513)
SECTION II. MODES OF COMMUNICATION
#525. Manifestation.—N. {ant. 526} manifestation; plainness &c.
adj.; plain speaking; expression; showing &c. v.; exposition,
demonstration; exhibition, production; display, show; showing off;
premonstration|. exhibit[Thing shown]. indication &c. (calling
attention to) 457. publicity &c. 531; disclosure &c. 529; openness &c.
(honesty) 543, (artlessness) 703; panchement. evidence &c. 467. V. make
manifest, render manifest &c. adj.; bring forth, bring forward, bring
to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set
forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose
to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes;
tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light,
display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out
in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the
mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's
colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret
of; unfurl the flag; proclaim &c. (publish) 531. indicate &c. (direct
attention to) 457; disclose &c. 529; elicit &c. 480a. be manifest &c.
adj.; appear &c. (be visible) 446; transpire &c. (be disclosed) 529;
speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the face, rear its
head; give token, give sign, give indication of; tell its own tale &c.
(intelligible) 518. Adj. manifest, apparent; salient, striking,
demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced.
flagrant; notorious &c. (public) 531; arrant; stark staring; unshaded,
glaring. defined, definite. distinct, conspicuous &c. (visible) 446;
obvious, evident, unmistakable, indubitable, not to be mistaken,
palpable, self-evident, autoptical[obs3]; intelligible &c. 518. plain,
clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday; plain as a
pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose on one's
face, plain as the way to parish church. explicit, overt, patent,
express; ostensible; open, open as day; naked, bare, literal,
downright, undisguised, exoteric. unreserved, frank, plain-spoken &c.
(artless) 703; candid (veracious) 543; barefaced. manifested &c. v.;
disclosed &c. 529; capable of being shown, producible;
inconcealable[obs3], unconcealable; no secret. Adv. manifestly, openly
&c. adj.; before one's eyes, under one's nose, to one's face, face to
face, above board, cartes sur table, on the stage, in open court, in
the open streets; in market overt; in the face of day, face of heaven;
in broad daylight, in open daylight; without reserve; at first blush,
prima facie[Lat], on the face of; in set terms. Phr. cela saute aux
yeux[French]; he that runs may read; you can see it with half an eye;
it needs no ghost to tell us [Hamlet]; the meaning lies on the surface;
cela va sans dire[Fr]; res ipsa loquitur[Lat]; "clothing the palpable
and familiar" [Coleridge]; fari quae sentiat[Lat]; volto sciolto i
pensieri stretti [It]; "you don't need a weatherman to know which way
the wind blows" [Bob Dylan].
#526. Latency. Implication.—N. {ant. 525} latency,
inexpression[obs3]; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness,
mystery, cabala[obs3], anagoge[obs3]; silence &c (taciturnity) 585;
concealment &c. 528; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear;
Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes[Fr], undercurrent. implication,
logical implication; logical consequence; entailment. allusion,
insinuation; innuendo &c. 527; adumbration; "something rotten in the
state of Denmark" [Hamlet]. snake in the grass &c. (pitfall) 667;
secret &c. 533. darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility. V. be latent
&c. adj.; lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape observation,
escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid &c. 528. laugh in one's
sleeve; keep back &c. (conceal) 528. involve, imply, understand, allude
to, infer, leave an inference; entail; whisper &c. (conceal) 528.
[understand the implication] read between the lines. Adj. latent;
lurking &c.v.; secret &c. 528; occult; implied &c. v.; dormant;
abeyant. unapparent, unknown, unseen &c. 441; in the background;
invisible &c. 447; indiscoverable[obs3], dark; impenetrable &c.
(unintelligible) 519; unspied[obs3], unsuspected. unsaid, unwritten,
unpublished, unbreathed[obs3], untalked of[obs3], untold &c. 527,
unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed[obs3], undisclosed &c. 529,
unexpressed; not expressed, tacit. undeveloped, solved, unexplained,
untraced[obs3], undiscovered &c. 480a, untracked, unexplored,
uninvented[obs3]. indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by
implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled;
steganographic[obs3]; understood, underhand, underground;
delitescent[obs3], concealed &c. 528. Adv. by a side wind; sub
silentio[Lat]; in the background; behind the scenes, behind one's back;
on the tip of one's tongue; secretly &c. 528; between the lines. Phr.
"thereby hangs a tale" [As You Like It]; tacitum vivit sub pectore
vulnus [Lat][Vergil]; where there's smoke, there's fire.
#527. Information.—N. information, enlightenment, acquaintance,
knowledge &c. 490; publicity &c. 531; data &c. 467. communication,
intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation;
announcement; communiqu; representation, round robin, presentment.
case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news &c. 532;
return &c. (record) 551; account &c. (description) 594; statement &c.
(affirmation) 535. mention; acquainting &c. v; instruction &c.
(teaching) 537; outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness.
informant, authority, teller, intelligencer[obs3], reporter, exponent,
mouthpiece; informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth;
mouchard[obs3], spy, newsmonger; messenger &c. 534; amicus curiae[Lat].
valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade
mecum[Latin]; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary &c.
(journey) 266. hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing
word, word in the ear, subaudition[obs3], cue, byplay; gesture &c.
(indication) 550; gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti [Latin: a
word to the wise]; insinuation &c. (latency) 526. information theory.
[units of information] bit, byte, word, doubleword[Comp], quad word,
paragraph, segment. [information storage media] magnetic media, paper
medium, optical media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory,
ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM. V. tell; inform, inform of;
acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart to; make acquaintance with,
apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken; transmit. let fall, mention,
express, intimate, represent, communicate, make known; publish &c. 531;
notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of. let one know, have
one to know; give one to understand; give notice; set before, lay
before, put before; point out, put into one's head; put one in
possession of; instruct &c. (teach) 537; direct the attention to &c.
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