Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who translates orally from one language into another.
- n. One who gives or expounds an interpretation: "An actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world” ( Alec Guinness).
- n. Computer Science A program that translates an instruction into a machine language and executes it before proceeding to the next instruction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which interprets; one who explains or expounds; an expositor; a translator; especially, one who explains what is said in a different language.
Wiktionary
- n. One who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with translator.
- n. figuratively One who explains something, such as an art exhibit.
- n. computing A program which executes another program written in a programming language other than machine code.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time
- n. someone who mediates between speakers of different languages
- n. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- n. someone who uses art to represent something
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Latin interpretor ("to explain, expound, understand"), from interpres ("agent, translator"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Of course, having an interpreter is also good, but the interpreted words may lack the vital ingredient because you do not feel the emotion accompanied by these words being passed.”
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“One critic, Stanley Fish, has said that his goal as an interpreter is not to find ‘the truth,’ but to be as interesting as possible.”
“On Aug. 12, the wire services reported fighting near the Pakistani border and the death of three U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter from a roadside bomb.”
The Washington Post: A Secret Afghanistan Mission Prepares for War with Iran
“In other words, the interpreter is not permitted to go up to the election officials and inform them that she intends to go into the booth and help the voter.”
“The use of an interpreter is needed to communicate and there is always something lost along those lines.”
“And Salon has reprinted a post from Iraqi blogger Riverbend about Alan Ghazi, the slain interpreter who worked with Carroll:”
“The Python interactive interpreter is a lower-level interface to playsh.”
“After sitting down in a restaurant in southern Delhi, we called the interpreter to explain that we wanted a wheat-free recommendation from the waiter.”
The Wall Street Journal: Making Yourself Understood in Beijing
“Lt. Hinh allegedly worked didn't exist at the time and location cited by the source, thus the existence of the interpreter is moot.”
“The appointing order may contain a provision for the withdrawal of unarraigned cases from other courts-martial and referral of those cases to the new court; it should contain no reference as to whether a reporter or interpreter is authorized.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘interpreter’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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occupations
actor, actress, archaelogist, soldier, cook, lawyer, gardener, grocr, bank official, barman, barmaid, baber and 50 more...
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open list: the art of talking
Words that describe people who are identified by a specific variety of speech. This list was inspired by the discussion at anecdotalist.
anecdotalist, conversationalist, fabulist, mythomaniac, speechifier, gaffeur, bullshit artist, preacher, witticist, raconteur, storyteller, liar and 29 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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The Gang of Four
visitor, template, strategy, state, observer, memento, mediator, iterator, interpreter, command, chain of responsi..., proxy and 13 more...
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