garble

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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.

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  1. transitive verb To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible: She garbled all the historical facts.
  2. transitive verb To scramble (a signal or message), as by erroneous encoding or faulty transmission.
  3. transitive verb Archaic To sort out; cull.
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  • As a nonstop news junkie, I can attest that nearly all of those who are quoted talk and talk without realizing the garble isn't helping things and, in fact, often aids reporters and sometimes even the competition more.
  • I rather think, that they will not attempt to garble: because, supposing the precedents to apply, the major part are certainly in their favor. —  Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2
  • Furious alike at her want of success and at the affront which had been put upon her, the Marquise drove from the Arsenal to the hotel of M. de Soissons; where, still smarting under the rebuff of the uncompromising Duke, she did not scruple sufficiently to garble his words to give them all the appearance of a premeditated and wilful insult to the Prince personally. —  The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1
  • I wrote out chunks of garble, letting him ramble on about Monet, Sisley, Renoir, not so much Pissarro, made him in awe of the staid Manet. —  Jade Woman - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 12
  • Microsoft releases garble, something, yadda, to allow automatic provisioning of garble garble —  Wi-Fi Networking News
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  1. Middle English garbelen, to inspect and remove refuse from spices, from Anglo-Norman garbeler, to sift, and from Medieval Latin garbellāre, both from Arabic ġarbala, to select, from ġirbāl, sieve, from Late Latin crībellum, diminutive of Latin crībrum; see krei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly garbel, garbell; from Old French *garbeler (not recored), transposed grabeller, sift (spices), examine precisely (cf. gerbele, garbele, garbelle, spice, prob. garbled spice), = Italian garbellare = Spanish garbillar (cf. Middle Latin garbellare), sift, garble; prob., through Spanish, of Arabic origin: from Spanish garbillo, a coarse sieve, from Arabic ghirbāl, Persian gharbīl, also girbāl, a sieve, Cf. Arabic gharbalat, sifting, searching.
  2. from garble, v.
 

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