Garble



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 曲解, 窜改
• ［英］ v. 曲解, 窜改 ( to suppress or distort parts to mislead or misrepresent)
• ［记］ 联想记忆: 美国女影星嘉宝 ( Garbo)

Webster Collegiate

I. transitive verb (garbled; garbling)

• Etymology: Middle English garbelen, from Old Italian garbellare to sift, from Arabic gharbala, from Late Latin cribellare, from cribellum sieve; akin to Latin cernere to sift — more at certain
• Date: 15th century
• 1. archaic cull 1
• 2. to sift impurities from
• 3.
  • a. to so alter or distort as to create a wrong impression or change the meaning <garble a story>
  • b. to introduce textual error into (a message) by inaccurate encipherment, transmission, or decipherment
• ? garbler noun

II. noun

• Date: 1502
• 1. the impurities removed from spices in sifting
• 2. an act or an instance of garbling

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