interpreter

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For the interpreter was a person of consequence, in his own estimation at least, and not to be lightly appropriated by privates.

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  1. noun One who translates orally from one language into another.
  2. noun 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).
  3. noun Computer Science A program that translates an instruction into a machine language and executes it before proceeding to the next instruction.

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  • But even as the interpreter was jabbering away to the unreasonable functionary, the assembly was agitated with what the French term a “sensation.” Judge, interpreter, and all fell upon their faces, doubling themselves up; and there stood the Premier, who took in the situation at a glance, ordered Moonshee to be released, and permitted him at my request to retire to the room allotted to Beebe. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • The captain was kind enough to act as my interpreter, and, thanks to him, I was enabled to perform a dozen of my best tricks. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
  • While threads themselves are a language construct, the interpreter is the gatekeeper to the mapping between threads and the OS. —  Planet Python
  • What V8 does is act as a JavaScript compiler rather as an interpreter, which is how most JVMs work. —  cryptogon.com
  • Adam would be the first to point out that adding "- without-gil" to the Makefile for the C version of the interpreter was actually a side-effect of the bulk of his work. —  Planet Python
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  1. Early modern English interpretour, from Old French interpreteur, entrepreteur, from Late Latin interpretator, an explainer, from Latin interpretari, explain: see interpret.
 

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