Entailment vs. Paraphrase — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Entailment and Paraphrase
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Entailment
To have, impose, or require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence
The investment entailed a high risk. The proposition X is a rose entails the proposition X is a flower because all roses are flowers.
Paraphrase
A paraphrase is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words. The term itself is derived via Latin paraphrasis from Greek παράφρασις 'additional manner of expression'.
Entailment
To limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs.
Paraphrase
Express the meaning of (something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity
You can either quote or paraphrase literary texts
Entailment
To bestow or impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs.
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Paraphrase
A rewording of something written or spoken
It is characteristic of poetic metaphors that they are not susceptible to paraphrase
Scattered here and there in the text are frank paraphrases of lines from Virgil, Cicero, and Quintilian
Entailment
The act of entailing, especially property.
Paraphrase
A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.
Entailment
The state of being entailed.
Paraphrase
The restatement of texts in other words as a studying or teaching device.
Entailment
An entailed estate.
Paraphrase
The adaptation or alteration of a text or quotation to serve a different purpose from that of the original.
Entailment
A predetermined order of succession, as to an estate or to an office.
Paraphrase
To restate using different words, especially to clarify.
Entailment
Something transmitted as if by unalterable inheritance.
Paraphrase
To adapt or alter (a text or quotation) to serve a different purpose from that of the original
"It's tempting to paraphrase an environmental slogan and say, 'Think globally, pray locally'" (Christian Science Monitor).
Entailment
The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.
Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true.
An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.
Paraphrase
To compose a paraphrase.
Entailment
The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
Paraphrase
A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.
Entailment
The condition of being entailed.
Paraphrase
(Scotland) One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.
Entailment
A thing entailed.
Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force.
Paraphrase
(ambitransitive) To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
Entailment
Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied);
His resignation had political implications
Paraphrase
A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; - opposed to metaphrase.
In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense.
Excellent paraphrases of the Psalms of David.
His sermons a living paraphrase upon his practice.
The Targums are also called the Chaldaic or Aramaic Paraphrases.
Paraphrase
To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language.
We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words.
Paraphrase
To make a paraphrase.
Paraphrase
Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Express the same message in different words
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