Interpret(v. i.) To act as an interpreter.
Interpret(v. t.) To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.
Interpret(v. t.) To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.
Interpretable(a.) Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
Interpretation(n.) The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
Interpretation(n.) The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
Interpretation(n.) The power or explaining.
Interpretation(n.) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
Interpretation(n.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
Interpretative(a.) Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.
Interpretative(a.) According to interpretation; constructive.
Interpretatively(adv.) By interpretation.
Interpreted(imp. & p. p.) of Interpret
Interpreter(n.) One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.
Interpreting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interpret
Interpretive(a.) Interpretative.
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