paraphrase

A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.

The restatement of texts in other words as a studying or teaching device.

The adaptation or alteration of a text or quotation to serve a different purpose from that of the original.

To restate using different words, especially to clarify.

To adapt or alter (a text or quotation) to serve a different purpose from that of the original.

To compose a paraphrase.

To restate or translate with latitude; interpret; construe; unfold and express the sense of (an author) with greater clearness and particularity by substituting other words for his own.

To interpret or amplify by change of words; make a paraphrase.

A restatement of a text or passage, giving the sense of the original in other words, generally in fuller terms and with greater detail, for the sake of clearer and more complete exposition: opposed to metaphrase. When the original is in a foreign language, translation and paraphrase may be combined.

Specifically, in Scotland, one of sixty-seven versified renderings of as many selected passages of Scripture, usually bound up with the metrical psalms, and like them sung in church, etc.