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interpret

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French interpreter (13c.) and directly from Latin interpretari "explain, expound, understand," from interpres "agent, translator," from inter- (see inter- ) + second element of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Sanskrit prath- "to ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB as ▪ There was nothing in his face that she could interpret as affection or even as desire. ▪ But it can be interpreted as stating that on average there is more variety in the trading equilibrium than in autarky. ▪ ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interpret \In*ter"pret\, v. i. To act as an interpreter. --Shak.

Usage examples of interpret.

Adams interpreted such feints and maneuvers to mean the real objective was the Hudson, where Howe would join forces with Burgoyne, but then Adams decided an invasion of Philadelphia must be the plan after all.

The mulatta said words to the pure africana girl, and I took it that she was interpreting what we had said.

In the year 1529 came the terrible imperial law, passed by an alliance of Catholics and Lutherans at the Diet of Spires, condemning all Anabaptists to death, and interpreted to cover cases of simple heresy in which no breath of sedition mingled.

At first I expressed some perplexity at the questions having emanated from her royal highness, and I told her afterwards that I understood cabalism, but that I could not interpret the meaning of the answers obtained through it, and that her highness must ask new questions likely to render the answers easier to be understood.

The little red people interpreted their sullen bovine glares as subservience only, but all the while the Archaea were looking at them thinking, You cannibals, we are going to get you some day.

Ross to interpret: Stav, and Kosta as well, welcomed more than feared the prospect of the Baldies trying to find and get aboard their ship.

Music can also be found that is 6, 9 or 12 beats to the bar, in which the beats on the bars are interpreted as 2 groups of 3 beats, 3 groups of 3 beats or 2 groups of 2 groups of 3 beats respectively.

The Bollandists themselves have entirely overlooked those sources of information, thinking, upon the authority of a single badly interpreted passage, that the Order had not obtained a single bull before the solemn approval of Honorius III.

Those who had to make out his descriptions and locate on charts the various places he described did not interpret him that way.

If I were to persist in treating chicks as Descartes might have wanted me to - and indeed as some schools of behaviourist psychologists would still maintain - as insentient machines, mere logic circuits based on carbon chemistry instead of the more reliable silicon chemistry of the computer, I would soon cease to be able to design sensible experiments or interpret the results that I obtain.

This appears in the fact that the various ideas which are necessary to interpret the new problem are to be selected out of larger complexes of past experience.

I would interpret slightly differently is his conceptualization, following Brown, of the stages of meditation as a deconstruction of the previous structures.

Latin, Cymric and Saxon with no result, bitterly regretting that our two islanders, who might have interpreted, had drowned, bound tightly to their bunks.

Spirit must be interpreted as part of the defense mechanisms and repression barriers that are hiding the deeper truth of sexual lust.

Fortunately, however, we have in the deposits of ashes which were thrown out at the time of this great eruption some basis for interpreting the events which took place.