Dictionary Definition
interpreter
Noun
1 someone who mediates between speakers of
different languages [syn: translator]
2 someone who uses art to represent something;
"his paintings reveal a sensitive interpreter of nature"; "she was
famous as an interpreter of Shakespearean roles"
3 an advocate who represents someone else's
policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for
all the major organs of government" [syn: spokesperson, representative, voice]
4 (computer science) a program that translates
and executes source language statements one line at a time [syn:
interpretive
program]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- One who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that
utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with
translator.
- Wei Li had to interpret the whole speech, and they didn't even give her any study materials beforehand.
- One who explains something, such as an art exhibit.
- A program which executes another program written in a programming language other than machine code.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
one who interprets speech in another language
- Albanian: interpretues
- Arabic: (mutárjim)
- trreq Armenian
- Bosnian: tumač
- Chinese: 譯員, 译员 (yìyuán)
- Croatian: tumač, interpreter
- Danish: tolk
- Dutch: tolk , vertolker
- Finnish: tulkki
- French: interprète (1), interpréteur (2)
- Georgian: თარჯიმანი (t‘ardžimani)
- German: Dolmetscher, Dolmetscherin
- Hebrew: ,
- Hindi: दुभाषिया (dubʰāšaya)
- Hungarian: tolmács
- Japanese: 通訳 (tsūyaku), 通訳人 (tsūyakunin)
- Korean: 통역자 (tongyeokja)
- Latin: interpres
- Latvian: tulks
- Lithuanian: vertėjas
- Norwegian: tolk
- Persian: ترگمان
- Romanian: interpret
- Russian: переводчик, толмач
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: тумач
- Roman: tumač
- Cyrillic: тумач
- Spanish: intérprete
- Swedish: tolk
- Thai: (pôo bplae), (nák bplae)
- Turkish: tercüman
computer program
- Croatian: interpreter, interpretator
- Czech: interpret
- Japanese: インタープリタ (intāpurita)
- Russian: интерпретатор
- Thai: (dtua bplae paasăa)
Croatian
Etymology
From interpreter.Noun
Declension
Synonyms
- (person): tumač, interpretant, interpretator, interpret
- (computer program): interpretator
Extensive Definition
Interpreter, interpreting, interpretation can
mean: The term interpretation may refer to:
- Formal interpretation -- an abstract model
- Logical interpretation — a type of formal interpretation, the assignment of meaning to the symbols used in formal logic.
- Descriptive interpretation — a type of formal interpretation which deals with non mathematical objects
- hermeneutics — theory of the interpretation of texts
- interpreting — facilitation of dialogue between parties who use different languages.
- performance — of a work of art (music, drama, etc) is an interpretation by the performers of the work as written by the authors
- Interpretation (model theory)
- De Interpretatione — work by Aristotle on linguistics and logic
- radical interpretation — interpretation of a speaker from scratch
- intended interpretation — the system a formal language is designed to represent
Mathematics:
- Interpretation (model theory) — a formalisation of one structure's being interpreted in another by means of first-order formulae, like the standard interpretation of the field of rational numbers in the ring of integers.
Computing:
- interpreter (computing) — a program designed to run other non-executable programs directly, without a compiler
- command line interpreter — reads lines of text entered by a user and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming language
- interpreter pattern, a software engineering design pattern
- abstract interpretation — partial execution of a computer program which gains information about its semantics
Science:
- interpretation of quantum mechanics — there are several interpretations
Arts:
- interpretive dance — seeks to interpret the meaning inherent in music rather than performing specific pre-formatted moves
- oral interpretation — a dramatic art, also commonly called "interpretive reading" and "dramatic reading"
Heritage:
- heritage interpretation — developing an understanding of heritage: history, environment, culture
- interpreter — a person who acts the role of a historical character in a living museum.
Law:
- statutory interpretation — interpreting and applying legislation.
- authentic interpretation — in canon law, official interpretation of a statute issued by the statute's legislator
- list of FASB Interpretations — Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) interpretations of U.S. Generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP)
Religion:
- allegorical interpretation — as opposed to literal interpretation e.g. of the Bible
- interpretation of tongues — in Christianity, supernatural ability to understand unknown languages
Forensics debate competition categories:
Works:
- Interpreter (album) (1996) — by Julian Cope
- The Interpreter — 2005 movie starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.
- Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration — compilation album of The Carpenters
- Interpretations (Carpenters DVD) — compilation DVD
- Christmas Interpretations — 1993 Boyz II Men album
- The Comics Interpreter — comics zine
- Interpreter's Bible series — United Methodist Bible criticism series
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, (1899)
Other:
See also
- interpretability — in mathematical logic
- interpretant — in semiotics, the effect of a sign on someone who reads or comprehends it
- Against Interpretation'' — 1966 Susan Sonntag essay
- translation (disambiguation)
interpreter in German: Interpreter
(Begriffsklärung)
interpreter in Spanish: Intérprete
interpreter in French: Interprète
interpreter in Italian: Interprete
interpreter in Japanese: インタープリタ
(曖昧さ回避)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
allegorist, annotator, artist, artiste, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, concert artist,
critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor, emendator, emender, euhemerist, executant, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, go-between,
guide, hermeneut, lexicographer, maestro, metaphrast, minstrel, minstrelsy, music maker,
musician, oneirocritic, paraphrast, performer, player, scholiast, soloist, textual critic,
translator, tunester, virtuosa, virtuoso