English-Thai Dictionary

garble

VT บิดเบือน ความจริง  misrepresent distort falsify bid-buean-kwam-jing

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GARBLE

v.t.[L. cribro, cribello.] 1. Properly, to sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuabale parts of a substance from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
2. To separate; to pick; to cull out.

 

GARBLED

pp. Sifted; bolted; separated; culled out.

 

GARBLER

n.One who garbles, sifts or separates. A garbler of spices, is an officer of great antiquity in London. 1. One who picks out, culls or selects.

 

GARBLES

n.plu. The dust, soil or filth, severed from good spices, drugs, etc.

 

GARBLE

n.Any liquid preparation for washing the mouth and throat.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GARBLE

Gar "ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Garbling. ]Etym: [Formerly, to pick out, sort, OF. grabeler, for garbeler to examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse sieve, L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum sieve, akin to cernere to separate, sift (cf. E. Discern ); or perh. rather from Ar. gharbal, gharbil, sieve. ]

 

1. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. [Obs. ]

 

2. To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.

 

GARBLE

GARBLE Gar "ble, n.

 

1. Refuse; rubbish. [Obs. ] Wolcott.

 

2. pl.

 

Defn: Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc. ; -- also called garblings.

 

GARBLER

GARBLER Gar "bler, n.

 

Defn: One who garbles.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

garble

gar ble |ˈgärbəl ˈɡɑrbəl | ▶verb [ with obj. ] reproduce (a message, sound, or transmission ) in a confused and distorted way: the connection was awful and kept garbling his voice | (as adj. garbled ) : I got a garbled set of directions. ▶noun a garbled account or transmission. DERIVATIVES gar bler |-b (ə )lər |noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘sift out, cleanse ’): from Anglo-Latin and Italian garbellare, from Arabic ġarbala ‘sift, ’ perhaps from late Latin cribellare ‘to sieve, ’ from Latin cribrum ‘sieve. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

garble

gar ¦ble |ˈgɑːb (ə )l | ▶verb [ with obj. ] reproduce (a message, sound, or transmission ) in a confused and distorted way: (as adj. garbled ) : garbled directions. ▶noun a garbled account or transmission. DERIVATIVES garbler noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘sift out, cleanse ’): from Anglo-Latin and Italian garbellare, from Arabic ġarbala ‘sift ’, perhaps from late Latin cribellare ‘to sieve ’, from Latin cribrum ‘sieve ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

garble

garble verb the message was garbled in transmission: mix up, muddle, jumble, confuse, obscure, distort, scramble; misstate, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, mistranslate, misinterpret, misconstrue, twist.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

garble

garble verb the message was garbled in transmission: mix up, muddle, jumble, confuse, blur, slur, obscure, distort, twist, twist around, warp, misstate, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, mistranslate, misinterpret, misconstrue; tamper with, tinker with, change, alter, doctor, falsify, pervert, corrupt, adulterate; rare misarticulate, misrender.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

garble

gar ble /ɡɑ́ː r b (ə )l /動詞 他動詞 〈話 音 著作など 〉を (故意に )ゆがめる, (知らずに )…を誤って伝える ; …をうっかり取り違える .名詞 U C 歪 （わい ）曲 (されたもの ).

 

garbled

g á r bled 形容詞 〈話 報告などが 〉紛らわしい, 不明瞭 （りよう ）な ; 誤って伝えられた ; 〘インターネット 〙〈メールなどが 〉文字化けした .