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paraphrase 1. an expression of a statement or text in other words, esp in order to clarify 2. the practice of making paraphrases How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In many places this poem is only a paraphrase of the Bible. She said it wouldn't do and she told me to learn the nineteenth paraphrase for next Sunday. As he approached, he heard the noise of the pulleys which grated under the weight of the massy pails; he also fancied he heard the melancholy moaning of the water which falls back again into the wells -- a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet -- both dreamers -- which the English call splash; Arabian poets, gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase -- the noise of water falling into water. |
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