Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible.
- transitive verb To scramble (a signal or message), as by erroneous encoding or faulty transmission.
- transitive verb Archaic To sort out; cull.
- noun The act or an instance of garbling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anything that has been sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been removed.
- noun Refuse separated from goods, as spices, drugs, etc.: in the following passage applied to a low fellow. Compare
trash in a similar use. - To sift or bolt; free from dross or dirt.
- Hence— To pick out the fine or valuable parts of; cull out and select the best or most suitable parts or specimens of; sort out; select and assort, rejecting the bad or least suitable: as, to
garble spices; to garble coins. Seegarbling the coinage , below. [Now only in technical use.] - To sort out parts of for a purpose, especially a sinister purpose; mutilate so as to give a false impression; sophisticate; corrupt: as, a garbled account of an affair; a garbled text or writing.
- Synonyms Misquote, etc. (see
mutilate ); pervert, misrepresent, falsify.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Refuse; rubbish.
- noun Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called
garblings . - transitive verb obsolete To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt.
- transitive verb To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
- verb To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to
mutilate ; topervert ; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account. - verb To make false by
mutilation oraddition - noun obsolete
refuse ;rubbish - noun obsolete Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In a series of Tweets, Michael -- who turns 50 on Sunday -- told his troubled daughter that estranged ex-wife Dina had to "put the 'garble' aside and get on the same page" and join them all in therapy.
RadarOnline RSS 2010
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The unfortunate consequence for those on VoIP-enabled calls is what is referred to as latency, jitter and packet loss, and the resultant "garble" or dropped calls are quite annoying.
CIO.in 2009
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The unfortunate consequence for those on VoIP-enabled calls is what is referred to as latency, jitter and packet loss, and the resultant "garble" or dropped calls are quite annoying.
CIO.in 2009
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The unfortunate consequence for those on VoIP-enabled calls is what is referred to as latency, jitter and packet loss, and the resultant "garble" or dropped calls are quite annoying.
CIO.in 2009
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The unfortunate consequence for those on VoIP-enabled calls is what is referred to as latency, jitter and packet loss, and the resultant "garble" or dropped calls are quite annoying.
CIO.in 2009
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The unfortunate consequence for those on VoIP-enabled calls is what is referred to as latency, jitter and packet loss, and the resultant "garble" or dropped calls are quite annoying.
CIO.in 2009
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The unfortunate consequence for those on VoIP-enabled calls is what is referred to as latency, jitter and packet loss, and the resultant "garble" or dropped calls are quite annoying.
CIO.in 2009
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The unfortunate consequence for those on VoIP-enabled calls is what is referred to as latency, jitter and packet loss, and the resultant "garble" or dropped calls are quite annoying.
CIO.in 2009
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The unfortunate consequence for those on VoIP-enabled calls is what is referred to as latency, jitter and packet loss, and the resultant "garble" or dropped calls are quite annoying.
CIO.in 2009
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The unfortunate consequence for those on VoIP-enabled calls is what is referred to as latency, jitter and packet loss, and the resultant "garble" or dropped calls are quite annoying.
CIO.in 2009
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