Word Finder - interpret

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To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.

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to interpret an Indian speech

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To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation

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The actor interpreted the character of Hamlet with great skill.

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To act as an interpreter.

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He interpreted at the meeting between the Chinese and French associates.

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To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.

He had no idea how to interpret the warning.

Others more broadly interpret the concept of securing life, liberty, and property.

Uncertain how to interpret the response, Deidre shook her head and faced the portal.

Contrasting, in the second place, with the polyorgan theory are the various "polyperson " theories which interpret the Siphonophore cormus as a colony composed of more or fewer individuals in or a', Pneumatocyst.

Uncertain how to interpret his quietness, she tried to figure out what to say.

He was the first in extant literature to interpret certain passages in Revelation of Nero.

Descartes occasionally had not scrupled to interpret the Scriptures according to his own tenets, while still maintaining, when their letter contradicted him, that the Bible was not meant to teach the sciences.

Judicial restraint is a theory of how judges are to interpret laws.

The record of the signals given by this instrument was an undulating line of fine perforations or spots, and the character and succession of the undulations were used to interpret the signals desired to be sent.

Herbert tried to interpret his own devout meditations by applying images of all kinds to the ritual and beliefs of the Church.

Generally, you can interpret the term one of two ways.

For example, aggressive children are more likely to interpret an accidental push or bump from a peer as intentionally hostile and respond accordingly.

Play therapy refers to the use of play as communication; therapists who are trained in these techniques observe and participate in play activities with the child and interpret the child's actions as a form of subconscious communication.

Skills on how to read and interpret the notation on one part of the course will be useful when learning other components.

Sample reports are also available so users can become familiar with how to read and interpret a report.

The contestants all decided to interpret their color assignments very literally - Alice, Temple, and Tym painted all their walls in shades of their colors, while David painted part of his walls in red.

You can also listen to the songs to help you interpret the music on your guitar.

In short, our brains automatically interpret what we experience in its own terms.

Regardless of how you interpret value as it applies to vintage books, building a collection can truly be a labor of love.

Inability to interpret the body's hunger signals accurately due to early experiences of inappropriate feeding.

The TAT does not yield a score, so its results can be difficult to interpret.

A radiologist, who is a physician trained to interpret diagnostic x rays, examines the pictures and reports to the doctor who ordered the tests.

Auditory perception-The ability to comprehend and interpret auditory signals.

However, cats do not enjoy the sounds of dogs barking, elephants trumpeting, or any other animal noises that they might interpret as sounds of nearby danger.

Judges were put in the position of having to interpret the law to determine what constitutes a "reasonable" amount for child support payments.

When evaluating new or used Thomasville wooden furniture, interpret very narrow and small cracks as part of the beauty of wood furniture made by master craftsmen.

Wedding vows should be typed so there is no need to decipher handwriting or interpret revision marks.

The answer may depend on how you interpret them.

Even the middle and quarter steps are simple to interpret.

Correctly interpret other children's body language and tone of voice.

The child may interpret the delay in the return of symptoms as evidence that the child has recovered from celiac disease, but they have not, as celiac disease cannot be cured.

The child is then trained in how to interpret the sounds heard through the device.

The length of the training varies from days to years, depending on how well the child can interpret the sounds heard.

With the new approval for using cochlear implants in children as young as 12 months of age, the toddler may not be trained specifically to interpret the sounds in the same way an older child would.

In addition, many other factors affect a woman's body temperature, making this a difficult test to interpret accurately.

Others may interpret the data as evidence that over-spending automakers failed to determined accurate and actual costs to remain profitable.

Don't be a perfectionist; let the child interpret the craft in his own way.

Although a target heart rate is highly individualized and difficult to interpret perfectly, you can calculate your heart rate online at the Mayo Clinic site.

You could interpret the price you're offered for a policy as a gauge of your health.

Nicole works as a volunteer at the hospital and offers to help Bryce interpret the symbol he saw in his flashforward.

Some interpret this to mean King Kong is the victor.

While these servers interpret HTML pages in much the same as any other server, pages with the suffix ".ASP" get treated differently.

This is the "skeleton", so to speak, and it serves as a way for the designer to put the information and elements of a page into a format that the web browser can interpret and show correctly.

Instead it is more of a "descriptive" language, laying out first a framework for the web browser to interpret and then defining the elements within that framework as well as their appearance.

Her abrupt contentedness was a warning he didn't understand how to interpret.

Why not interpret at once and render intelligible the common conception originating in natural science, viz.

One of the tests by which Fichte discriminates the value of previous systems is the adequateness with which they interpret moral experience.

Lightfoot, on the contrary, endeavoured to make his author interpret himself, and by considering the general drift of his argument to discover his meaning where it appeared doubtful.

This is probably the sense in which we may interpret his tirade against Lord Whitworth at the diplomatic circle on the 13th of March.

His success depends upon his ability to interpret rightly the facts and intangible signs with which he is brought in contact.