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In Other Words

Definition: In Other Words

In Other Words

Adverb

1. Otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: In Other Words

Synonym: put differently (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: In Other Words

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interpretation

Adverb: in explanation; Noun: that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: In Other Words

English words defined with "in other words": I.D., i.e., id estthat is, that is to say, To help up. (references)
Specialty definitions using "in other words": A* search, AI-complete, artificial neural network, Axiom of Choicebroad lodeChinese remainder theorem, continuous functiondesign recoveryI'm going to Tai-bo you!, In situ leach, INSURANCE, IOWLOOPNMelanuros, Miller-Rabin, Moving the Previous Question, My Favourite Toy LanguageNewton's law of universal gravitation, Not seasonally adjustedPiccinistsReal Soon Now, remote sensing, ROUND ROBINskin flotationtotoZermelo Fränkel set theory. (references)

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Modern Usage: In Other Words

DomainUsage

Screenplays

In other words, you're saying you want me to leave? (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon)

In other words, you can describe what happens what I do something, without necessarily indicating what makes me do it. (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle; writing credit: Catherine Vimenet; Jean-Luc Godard)

So in other words if we were to take all your flesh and blood (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean)

And though I never would've anticipated it, in the end she did for me what I have done for so many: help solve a problem, first by observation, then by careful intervention -- in other words, the Zero Effect. (Zero Effect; writing credit: Jake Kasdan)

Shishio's logic dictates that the winner of a battle, in other words, the strong, is always correct, that it does. (Rurouni Kenshin; writing credit: Johan Unenge; Mns Gahrton)

Lyrics

In other words, (Smut; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Or, in other words, (New Math; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: In Other Words

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

In other words my friends, life is a series of ups and downs!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: In Other Words

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Pope

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Alexis De Tocqueville

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: In Other Words

AuthorDateQuotation

Marbury v. Madison

1803

If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity, bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect? Or, in other words, though it be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law? (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: In Other Words

TitleAuthorQuote

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

In other words, all the usual conditions which bring on a bout of soul-searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In other words, they were subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint Benedict.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

In other words the synthesis of immediate perception is followed by the analysis of apprehension.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: In Other Words

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In other words, at this time, there is no cure for Barrett's esophagus. (references)

Will the genetic information available now ever be used in screening for Alzheimer's disease? Probably not. One of the puzzles surrounding apoE4 is why some people with the gene do not develop Alzheimer's disease and why, conversely, many people develop the disease even though they do not have the gene. ApoE4, in other words, is not a consistent marker for Alzheimer's. (references)

Business

Without certain cities, in other words, the market for satellite launch vehicles would be lower for the world in general. (references)

Nevertheless, a market for specialized products, such as cod or other fish, gourmet foods and upscale products (in other words, goods that cannot be economically produced in Argentina) would continue to exist. (references)

Of which, 29,291 yen (US$ 273.00) per year is spent on beer. In other words, 55% of total alcoholic beverage spending in Japan, or roughly $34 billion annually, goes to the purchase of beer. There are five main beer brewers in Japan brewing about 99 percent of total beer production. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. INSURANCE AGENT: My dear sir, that is a fine house -- pray let me insure it. HOUSE OWNER: With pleasure. Please make the annual premium so low that by the time when, according to the tables of your actuary, it will probably be destroyed by fire I will have paid you considerably less than the face of the policy. INSURANCE AGENT: O dear, no -- we could not afford to do that. We must fix the premium so that you will have paid more. HOUSE OWNER: How, then, can I afford that? INSURANCE AGENT: Why, your house may burn down at any time. There was Smith's house, for example, which -- HOUSE OWNER: Spare me -- there were Brown's house, on the contrary, and Jones's house, and Robinson's house, which -- INSURANCE AGENT: Spare me! HOUSE OWNER: Let us understand each other. You want me to pay you money on the supposition that something will occur previously to the time set by yourself for its occurrence. In other words, you expect me to bet that my house will not last so long as you say that it will probably last. INSURANCE AGENT: But if your house burns without insurance it will be a total loss. HOUSE OWNER: Beg your pardon -- by your own actuary's tables I shall probably have saved, when it burns, all the premiums I would otherwise have paid to you -- amounting to more than the face of the policy they would have bought. But suppose it to burn, uninsured, before the time upon which your figures are based. If I could not afford that, how could you if it were insured? INSURANCE AGENT: O, we should make ourselves whole from our luckier ventures with other clients. Virtually, they pay your loss. HOUSE OWNER: And virtually, then, don't I help to pay their losses? Are not their houses as likely as mine to burn before they have paid you as much as you must pay them? The case stands this way: you expect to take more money from your clients than you pay to them, do you not? INSURANCE AGENT: Certainly; if we did not -- HOUSE OWNER: I would not trust you with my money. Very well then. If it is certain, with reference to the whole body of your clients, that they lose money on you it is probable, with reference to any one of them, that he will. It is these individual probabilities that make the aggregate certainty. INSURANCE AGENT: I will not deny it -- but look at the figures in this pamph -- HOUSE OWNER: Heaven forbid! INSURANCE AGENT: You spoke of saving the premiums which you would otherwise pay to me. Will you not be more likely to squander them? We offer you an incentive to thrift. HOUSE OWNER: The willingness of A to take care of B's money is not peculiar to insurance, but as a charitable institution you command esteem. Deign to accept its expression from a Deserving Object.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: In Other Words

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

In other words, just like our public schools but not as heavily armed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: In Other Words

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801That it may be the interest of this assembly to do strict justice at all times, it should be an equal representation, or, in other words, equal interests among the people should have equal interests in it.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989In other words, the Federal Government will hold the line on real spending.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: In Other Words

Language Translations for "in other words"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

me fjalë të tjera. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

就是說 (that is). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ved gentagne målinger kunne der ikke påvises nogen indflydelse af lufthastigheden,eller Reynolds tal,på indholdet af såvel fine som grove støvpartikler,over minegangens tværsnit (in other words at Reynolds numbers, there was no proved connection between these velocities and the fine and coarse dust concentration pattern over the cross-section of the roadway, within the range of the air velocities investigated), udvikling af en metode som fastlaegger taerskelvaerdien for stoevindholdet, d.v.s. den maengde stoev, som kan taales uden men, eller m.a.o. det maximalt tilladelige stoevindhold (or in other words the maximum admissible concentration, that is the tolerable amount of dust concentration). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

het uitwerken van een methode tot bepaling van een drempelwaarde voor het stofgehalte,d.w.z.het toelaatbare stofgehalte,of anders gezegd de toelaatbare stofconcentratie (or in other words the maximum admissible concentration, that is the tolerable amount of dust concentration), bij de metingen kon de invloed van de luchtsnelheid respectievelijk van het getal van Reynolds op de concentratie van grof en fijn stof in het galerijprofiel niet worden vastgesteld (in other words at Reynolds numbers, there was no proved connection between these velocities and the fine and coarse dust concentration pattern over the cross-section of the roadway, within the range of the air velocities investigated). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

toisin sanoin, toisin sanoen (that is to say). (various references)

   

French

  

lors de la série de mesures,l'influence de la vitesse du courant d'air ou du nombre de Reynolds sur la répartition de la concentration en poussières fines et grossières sur la section de la voie n'a pu être déterminée (in other words at Reynolds numbers, within the range of the air velocities investigated), concevoir une méthode de détermination d'un seuil d'empoussiérage,c'est- -dire,de l'empoussiérage tolérable,autrement dit de la concentration maximale admissible (or in other words the maximum admissible concentration). (various references)

   

German

  

mit anderen Worten. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

με άλλα λόγια. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

más szóval. (various references)

   

Italian

  

non è stato possibile stabilire con una serie di misure l'influenza della velocit dell'aria e del numero di Reynolds sulla distribuzione della concentrazione delle particelle fini e grosse nella sezione trasversale della galleria (in other words at Reynolds numbers, there was no proved connection between these velocities and the fine and coarse dust concentration pattern over the cross-section of the roadway, within the range of the air velocities investigated), elaborare un metodo di determinazione di un limite di impolveramento, vale a dire dell'impolveramento tollerabile in altri termini della concentrazione massima ammissibile (a method has been drawn up to determine a threshold level of dust concentration, or in other words the maximum admissible concentration, that is the tolerable amount of dust concentration). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

詰まり (after all, blockade, in brief, in short, in the long run, stuffing, that is to say, ultimate), 詰り (after all, blockade, in brief, in short, in the long run, stuffing, that is to say, ultimate), 言い替えるなら (if we put this another way), 換言すれば , 換言 , 別言すれば . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

べつ'"すれば, つまり (after all, blockade, in brief, in short, in the long run, stuffing, that is to say, ultimate), か"'"すれば, か"'" (admonition, cajolery, freeboard, leniency and severity, music, reduction, resolution, return to origins, wind and string instruments), いいかえるなら (if we put this another way). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inay otheray ordsway

   

Portuguese

  

ou seja, em outras palavras. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

другими словами (to put in the other way round, to put it in another way). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

en otras palabras. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

başka bir deyişle (alias). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: In Other Words

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-w"

-2 letters: dishonorer, rhodonites, trihedrons.

-3 letters: honeworts, hornworts, rhodonite, trihedron.

-4 letters: dhooties, dishonor, downiest, drowners, drowsier, endorsor, hedonist, heritors, hoedowns, honewort, honorers, hoodiest, hordeins, horniest, hornitos, hornwort, indorser, indorsor, interrow, introrse, northers, ornithes, redroots, redshirt, rowdiest, snootier, sorrowed, thornier, throwers, whoreson, woodhens, woodiest, woodsier, wordiest, worrited, worthier, worthies, writhers.

-5 letters: dehorns, dehorts, dhootie, dhootis, dineros, disroot.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-w"
 

+2 letters: roadworthiness.

 

+4 letters: otherworldliness, roadworthinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Historic
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Translations: Modern
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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