What is "interprets"

Usage examples of "interprets".

He interprets the pentakosiai pros diaciliais, by the number of fifteen hundred.

When the pupil interprets the object as six-legged, with hard shell-like wing covers, under wings membranous, etc.

When, however, the stimulus reaches a higher centre in the cortex of the brain, the mind becomes conscious, or interprets the impression, and any resulting action will be controlled by consciousness, through impulses given to the motor nerves.

To others, however, sensation signifies rather a mental image experienced by the mind as it reacts upon and interprets any sensory impression.

When the traveller passing by a lone graveyard interprets the tall and slender shrub laden with white blossoms as a swaying ghost, the misconception does not arise from any fault of mere vision, but from the type of former knowledge which the other surroundings of the moment call up, these evidently giving the mind a certain bias in its interpretation of the sensuous, or colour, impressions.

But to understand how an individual acquires the ability to perceive objects, it is well to notice first what takes place in an ordinary adult act of perception, as for instance, when a man receives and interprets a colour stimulus and says that he perceives an orange.

The reacting mind, which interprets the impression as an image of sound.

Whenever he passes to the perception of another dog, he undoubtedly interprets this with the general ideas already obtained from this earlier percept of a dog.

To say, therefore, that to gain a concept he compares the qualities found in several individual things is not strictly true, for if his first percept becomes a type by which he interprets other dogs, his first experience is already a concept.

This does not imply an actual confusion in identity, but his use of the term shows that the child interprets the new object through a crude concept denoted by the word papa.

Jesus assumes his death to be a part of the Messianic fate and interprets the Scriptures as necessarily pointing to that effect.

Its doctrine does not destroy nor explain the presiding and elective power which interprets these assimilated and preserved changes, choosing out such of them as it pleases, that unavoided and incomprehensible power, the hiding place of volition and eternity, whose startling call has often been known, in some dread crisis, to effect an instantaneous restoration of the entire bygone life, making all past events troop through the memory, a swiftly awful cavalcade marching along the fibrous pavement of the brain, while each terrified thought rushes to its ashy window to behold.

Samaritan, he interprets the host as the Spirit and the two denarii as the Father and Son.

And this point, as Sartre interprets it, is a zero point that almost effaces itself.

In order to substitute for the absence of the father, Jaromil engages in a game of multiple mirrors: not only does he write the poems, he also interprets and classifies them, and reflects on the reflection.