Interpreter
[ɪn'tɜːprɪtə] or [ɪn'tɝprɪtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time.
(noun.) someone who mediates between speakers of different languages.
(noun.) someone who uses art to represent something; 'his paintings reveal a sensitive interpreter of nature'; 'she was famous as an interpreter of Shakespearean roles'.
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Definition
(n.) One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Expounder.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INTERPRET]
Typist: Owen
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of an interpreter, denotes you will undertake affairs which will fail in profit.
Editor: Pierre
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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Examples
- Nevertheless, Mrs Plornish, with a pardonable vanity in that accomplishment of hers which made her all but Italian, stepped in as interpreter. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And this was the singular case of the Grecian Interpreter, the explanation of which is still involved in some mystery. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He is the god who sits in the centre, on the navel of the earth, and he is the interpreter of religion to all mankind. Plato. The Republic.
- Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I spoke in the Balnibarbian tongue, and my interpreter delivered my meaning in that of Luggnagg. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We may need an interpreter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The chief Indian, who acted as interpreter, thereupon wheeled about again towards the gentlefolks. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Her mother was going into town to call on some English family, who had applied for a prospectus: my services were needed as interpreter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I afterwards found that he generally acted, with his strong voice, as Mr. Creakle's interpreter to the boys. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Accordingly, Brewer, as the man who has the greatest reputation to sustain, becomes the interpreter of the general instinct. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am an interpreter, as perhaps my neighbor there has told you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter--often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter--in the eye. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This interpreter was a person employed to transact affairs with the Hollanders. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- As his words are few and his manner reticent and tentative, so must the style of his interpreter be. Plato. The Republic.
- In order to negotiate with him they have to get an interpreter, and they pitch upon this Mr. Melas, having used some other one before. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hearing this, Cyrus bade the interpreters ask Cr?sus who was this person on whom he called; and they came near and asked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Macaulay Island), and on this were wild, hairy men and women, whom the interpreters called gorilla. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I lifted my happy eyes: they _were_ happy now, or they would have been no interpreters of my heart. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The critics and interpreters are themselves creative. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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