gar·ble (gär b l)tr.v. gar·bled, gar·bling, gar·bles 1. To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible: She garbled all the historical facts. 2. To scramble (a signal or message), as by erroneous encoding or faulty transmission. 3. Archaic To sort out; cull. n. The act or an instance of garbling. [Middle English garbelen, to inspect and remove refuse from spices, from Anglo-Norman garbeler, to sift, and from Medieval Latin garbell  re, both from Arabic  arbala, to select, from irbl, sieve, from Late Latin cr bellum, diminutive of Latin crbrum; see krei- in Indo-European roots.]gar bler (-blr) n. |
garble [ˈgɑːbəl]
vb (tr)
1. to jumble (a story, quotation, etc.), esp unintentionally
2. to distort the meaning of (an account, text, etc.), as by making misleading omissions; corrupt
3. Rare to select the best part of
n
a. the act of garbling
b. garbled matter
[from Old Italian garbellare to strain, sift, from Arabic gharbala, from ghirbāl sieve, from Late Latin crībellum small sieve, from crībrum sieve]
garbler n
garble - Originally meant "to sort out" or "to select in a biased way," and was applied to the selection and sorting out of individual passages from a person's writings or any separation of the good from the bad, of a selection of the worst and setting aside the better; it evolved to mean "to jumble, scramble."
See also related terms for select.
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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garble
vt (deliberately) message → unverständlich machen; to garble one’s words → sich beim Sprechen überschlagen
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