ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

phrase &c 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage † , catachresis † ; metonymy [Gramm.],
synecdoche [Sem.]; autonomasia † , irony, figurativeness &c adj.; image, imagery;
metalepsis † , type, anagoge † , simile, personification, prosopopoeia † , allegory, apologue † ,
parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.
exaggeration, hyperbole &c 549.
association, association of ideas (analogy) 514.1
V. employ a metaphor &c n.; personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply,
allude to.
Adj. metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical † , typical, tralatitious † , parabolic, allegorical,
allusive, anagogical † ; ironical; colloquial; tropical.
Adv. so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were.
Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat.] [Horace].
522. Interpretation -- N. interpretation, definition; explanation, 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.