Interpretation
[ɪntɜːprɪ'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [ɪn'tɝprɪ'teʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; 'the edict was subject to many interpretations'; 'he annoyed us with his interpreting of parables'; 'often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning'.
(noun.) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something.
(noun.) an explanation that results from interpreting something; 'the report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence'.
Checker: Sylvia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
(n.) The power or explaining.
(n.) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
(n.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
Edited by Lelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Explanation, exposition, elucidation.[2]. Rendering, translation, version, construction.[3]. Meaning, sense, signification.
Editor: Xenia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Version, explanation, rendering, exposition, definition, sense, solution
ANT:Misinterpretation, misrendering, problem, difficulty, text
Typist: Paul
Examples
- A more generous interpretation would be to say that he had tried to be inclusive, to attach a hundred sectional agitations to a national program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Here in America alone we have two splendid critics, a man and a woman, whose thought flows from an interpretation of human character. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The one interpretation that I could put on her conduct has, no doubt, been anticipated by everybody. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If you insist on an answer, he said, I own I can place no other interpretation on her conduct than that. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- That's your interpretation of his motive, is it? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was as if some hard icy pressure had melted, and her consciousness had room to expand: her past was come back to her with larger interpretation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What's your interpretation, if you please? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The records of As syria and Babylonia, like those of Egypt, are fragmentary and still in need of interpretation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There was only one interpretation that I could place on what I had just seen and heard. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The velocity and certainty of Mr. Bucket's interpretation on all these heads is little short of miraculous. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Such tales may possibly have a mystical interpretation, but the young are incapable of understanding allegory. Plato. The Republic.
- Was it really only an idea, or was it the interpretation of a profound yearning? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- An analogous interpretation applies to the generality and ultimateness of philosophy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mike, like a wise Daniel as he is, not only rehearsed the vision but gave the interpretation thereof. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet if you probe those interpretations there is no escaping the conclusion that they rest upon some notion of what man is like. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Naturally they produced strange views and grotesque interpretations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After he had left me, I placed all my words, with their interpretations, in alphabetical order. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And now he was dying with all his ideas and interpretations intact. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Denny