(computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time

Usage examples of interpreter.

But with the doctor serving as interpreter, Adams learned to his astonishment that as a consequence of the American triumph at Saratoga, France and the United States had already agreed to an alliance.

While Adams conferred with Jefferson and Franklin, Abigail and Nabby toured the city, John Quincy serving as their guide and interpreter.

I therefore answered, in ordinary figures, four lines of which he alone could be the interpreter, not caring much, at least in appearance, how they would be understood.

Although this prince of navigators was in many instances assisted by interpreters in the prosecution of his researches, he still frankly acknowledges that he was at a loss to obtain anything like a clear insight into the puzzling arcana of their faith.

Proxenus had consented, and assigned to us an interpreter named Cleon, and two Boeotian scouts.

The interpreter readily told them that the half-caste had offered him a liberal sum in order to learn what Jack was doing, and what route he intended to follow on leaving Brindisi, but the man declared that he had made no answer, had, indeed, been unable to reply to the questions before Jack was on the scene and making his rush.

After some talk between them and the chief, by means of an interpreter, Roger was brought forward from the rear of the company.

There was no need of an interpreter with him, for he was capable of conversing in a number of languagesGaelic, English, German, French, Latin, Italian, and smatterings of Spanish, Catalonian, Moorish, and Portuguese.

So after a conference with his legates, interpreters and locals, he dispatched Lucius Titurius Sabinus and fifteen cohorts to winter at Termes, Celtiberian in populace but no longer keen to serve Sertorius.

I am assured by the best interpreters in the country, that it bears no affinity to the Cree, Sioux, or Chipewyan languages.

Franklin, dated March 28th, at Fort Chipewyan, where he was engaged procuring hunters and interpreters.

Wentzel to be a great acquisition to our party, as a check on the interpreters, he being one of the few traders who speak the Chipewyan language.

Indians grabbed the mooring ropes and seized the Chukchee interpreter, whom Waxel had brought from Siberia.

Waxel ordered the rope cut, but the Chukchee interpreter called out pitifully to be saved.

He had come with twenty spearmen, his interpreter, and, more surprisingly, with Dinas and Lavaine.