paraphraseverb

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Saying again
din something into someone
drill
drill someone in something
drill something into someone
drum
drum something into someone
hammer
iterate
labour
labour the pointidiom
reaffirm
rehash
reiteration
relay
repetitively
rephrase
restate
restatement
retell
retread

Examples of rephrasing

rephrasing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The fourth main type of repair, a rephrasing repair, involves revising the form of the speaker's original message without changing its content.
Major revision involves substantial rephrasing of the stem and replacement of at least two distractors.
We begin with rephrasing the standard (pointwise) definitions.
Too much time is spent rephrasing and recapitulating existing arguments either defending or criticising postmodernism and postcolonialism.
The use of an equivalent marker for introducing constructed dialogue and rephrasing a speaker's own utterances is attested cross-linguistically.
Rephrasing the astronomer's efforts, what is at stake is the search for evolution of intelligent behaviour.
In this paper, we propose the equivalent definition of generalized natural transformation as a more concrete rephrasing of the hyper-approach for the 2-fold case.
Four major groups of self-repairs were distinguished: different information, appropriacy, error, and rephrasing.
Equivalence to (iv): (iv) is, properly understood, a rephrasing of (iii), given the isomorphism in the first paragraph of the proof.
There is no raising of volume or pitch level, no indication or exasperation or irritability in the repeated rephrasings of the question.
They understand short conversations supported by context but usually require careful or slowed speech, repetitions, or rephrasing.
Moreover, the total length of the correction and the cut-off-to-repair intervals of different-information and rephrasing repairs were not influenced by the participants' proficiency level.
This rephrasing is preferable for two independent reasons.
On the other hand, nationalism as secular religion allows popular appropriation and rephrasing of that meaning, as long as the fundamental dogmatic principles are not challenged.
Since most of the coherence axioms are either just a rephrasing of those for the onedimensional case, we assume that only the last four double coherence axioms need some comment.
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