Word Meanings - GARBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse sieve, L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum sieve, akin to cernere to separate, sift ; or 1. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable

Additional info about word: GARBLE

examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse sieve, L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum sieve, akin to cernere to separate, sift ; or 1. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. 2. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GARBLE)

• Falsify
• Mistake
• misinterpret
• misrepresent
• belie
• betray
• garble
• cook
• Interpolate
• Interlard
• interweave
• import
• gloss
• intersperse
• furbish
• introduce

Related words: (words related to GARBLE)

• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• GLOSSARIAL
  Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• GLOSSOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossology.
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• GLOSSANTHRAX
  A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
• IMPORTUNATOR
  One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
• IMPORTING
  Full of meaning. Shak.
• IMPORTUNATE
  1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
• IMPORTUOUS
  Without a port or harbor.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• BELIEVING
  That believes; having belief. -- Be*liev"ing*ly, adv.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• INTERSPERSE
  1. To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope. 2. To diversify or adorn
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• GYMNOGLOSSA
  A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
• NONIMPORTATION
  Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.
• SACCOGLOSSA
  See PELLIBRANCHIATA
• UNBELIEF
  1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism. 2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain. Cowper. Syn. --
• IMPORTUNE
  derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
• ENTOGLOSSAL
  Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.