English dictionary
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English verb: interpret | |||
| 1. | interpret (cognition) make sense of; assign a meaning to | ||
| Samples | What message do you see in this letter?. How do you interpret his behavior?. | ||
| Examples | They won't interpret the story , Sam and Sue interpret the movie | ||
| Synonyms | construe, see | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | understand | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | allegorise, allegorize, be amiss, draw out, educe, elicit, evoke, extract, literalise, literalize, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand, mythicise, mythicize, read, read, read, read between the lines, reinterpret, scan, spiritualise, spiritualize, take | ||
| Verb group | consider, reckon, regard, see, view | ||
| 2. | interpret (communication) give an interpretation or explanation to | ||
| Synonyms | rede | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | explain, explicate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | annotate, comment, commentate, commentate, deconstruct, gloss, misinterpret, moralise, moralize, re-explain, reinterpret | ||
| 3. | interpret (creation) give an interpretation or rendition of | ||
| Samples | The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully. | ||
| Examples | They will interpret the duet | ||
| Synonyms | render | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | do, execute, perform | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | sing | ||
| Domain category | performing arts | ||
| 4. | interpret (creation) create an image or likeness of | ||
| Samples | The painter represented his wife as a young girl. | ||
| Synonyms | represent | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | re-create | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | animalise, animalize, capture, carnalize, chart, conventionalize, depict, depict, draw, graph, limn, map, mock up, model, paint, picture, portray, portray, present, profile, render, sensualize, show, silhouette, stylise, stylize | ||
| Domain category | art, artistic creation, artistic production | ||
| 5. | interpret (communication) restate (words) from one language into another language | ||
| Samples | I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S.. Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?. She rendered the French poem into English. He translates for the U.N.. | ||
| Synonyms | render, translate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | gloss, Latinize, mistranslate, retranslate | ||
| Verb group | translate | ||
| 6. | interpret (cognition) make sense of a language | ||
| Samples | She understands French. Can you read Greek?. | ||
| Synonyms | read, translate, understand | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | understand | ||
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