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122 words match “INTERPRET”

INTERPRET v. 3 definitions

-- 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. Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Matt. i. 23. And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pha…

INTERPRETABLE a.

Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.

INTERPRETAMENT n.

Interpretation. [Obs.] Milton.

INTERPRETATION n. 5 definitions

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. Look how we can, or sad or merrily, Interpretation will misquote our looks. Shak.

INTERPRETATIVE a. 2 definitions

Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. "Interpretative lexicography." Johnson.

INTERPRETATIVELY adv.

By interpretation. Ray.

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.

INTERPRETIVE a.

Interpretative. [R.]

MISINTERPRET v.

To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

MISINTERPRETABLE a.

Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

MISINTERPRETATION n.

The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

MISINTERPRETER n.

One who interprets erroneously.

A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.

Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures. L. Addison.

APOCALYPTIC; APOCALYPTICAL a.

on. Apocolyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18. It has been variously interpreted.

AREAD; AREED v.

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

BAROCYCLONOMETER n.

use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.

or sustain without violence, injury, or change. In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear. Swift.

To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. "Do not interpretations belong to God " Gen. xl. 8.

To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. To blare its own interpretation. Tennyson.