garble
11garble — gar•ble [[t]ˈgɑr bəl[/t]] v. bled, bling, n. 1) to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions[/ex] 2) to make misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.); distort: to garble a… …
12garble — 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… …
13garble — [15] Garble used not to have its presentday negative connotations. It originally meant simply ‘cleanse, sift, cull’: ‘[At Alexandria] all sorts of spices be garbled after the bargain is made’, Richard Hakluyt, Voyages 1599. Gradually, though,… …
14garble — [15] Garble used not to have its presentday negative connotations. It originally meant simply ‘cleanse, sift, cull’: ‘[At Alexandria] all sorts of spices be garbled after the bargain is made’, Richard Hakluyt, Voyages 1599. Gradually, though,… …
15garble table — noun : permutation table * * * garble table, a table, chart, or other aid used to correct garbled messages or statements in a code or group of codes …
16garble — An error in transmission, reception, encryption, or decryption that changes the text of a message or any portion thereof in such a manner that it is incorrect or undecryptable …
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18garble — Synonyms and related words: Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, adulterate, argot, babble, ball up, becloud, belie, bias, bollix up, burlesque, camouflage, cant, caricature, cipher, code, color, complicate, conceal, confound, confuse, contort,… …
19garble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. distort, misreport. See falseness, distortion. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. jumble, misquote, falsify, distort; see confuse , mislead . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. confuse, mix up, distort, jumble,… …
20garble — gar|ble [ garbl ] verb transitive to communicate something badly in speech or writing, so that it is confusing or not accurate: The military must improve its communications to avoid garbling vital transmissions …
