Word Finder - interpretations

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An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.

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the interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma.

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A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .

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Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

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The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).

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• interpreting

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The power of explaining.

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An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

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An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

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An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.

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(model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.

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The practice and discipline of explaining natural and cultural heritage to visitors at museums, historic sites, zoos, aquaria, science centres, art galleries, etc. Also called heritage interpretation, mediation, guiding, etc.

Several interpretations of the legend have been put forward by modern scholars.

He is not always very critical, and he is passionately fond of allegorical interpretations, but these were the faults of his age.

The terms of the treaty of Paris were not only of indefinite import but were susceptible of contradictory interpretations.

The Geonim in their " Responses " or " Questions and Answers " supplied authoritative interpretations of the Old Testament or of the Talmud, and regulated the application of the teaching of the past to the changed conditions under which their brethren now lived.

Thus, the same evidence could give rise to widely differing conflicting interpretations, which may not be directly deducible from or justified by the Scripture.

The powers of the Shah (Shahanshah,2 or king of kings) over his subjects and their property were absolute, but only in so far as they were not opposed to the shar, or divine law, which consists of the doctrines of the Mahommedan religion, as laid down in the Koran, the oral commentaries and sayings of the Prophet, and the interpretations by his successors and the high priesthood.

For other interpretations, especially as regards the mother, see Ency.

Now it is highly improbable that the earlier Stoics would have sanctioned such interpretations of their dogmas.

The epistles, according to Chubb, contain errors of fact, false interpretations of the Old Testament, and sometimes disfigurement of religious truth.

Various interpretations have been given to these glumaceous organs and different terms employed for them by various writers.

However his own particular interpretations may have been condemned, they were conceived in essentially the same spirit as the general scheme of thought afterwards elaborated in the 13th century with approval from the heads of the church.

In the conifers proper the female reproductive organs have the form of cones, which may be styled flowers or inflorescences according to different interpretations of their morphology.

The Koran, the sole authentic authority in all matters, legal or civil, never accurately distinguished between the sheikh and the cadi, and its phrases, besides, are vague and capable of admitting different and even opposite interpretations.

Yet there is not much evidence that the church directly borrowed many of its ceremonies or interpretations from outside sources.

Further, the morphologists of the 'fifties appear, with few exceptions, to have accepted a preliminary scheme with regard to the Arthropod head and Arthropod segmentation generally, which was misleading and caused them to adopt forced conclusions and interpretations.

Truth and falsehood belong only to assertions or denials concerning ideas, that is, to our interpretations of our ideas according to their mutual relations.

All our " interpretations of nature " are inadequate; only reasonable probabilities, not final rational certainties.

The allegorical interpretations and metaphysics which had been imported into religion had taken men's minds away from the plain sense of the Koran.

Applying the same method of careful observation to the sun and planets, and later to some of the constellations and to many of the fixed stars, it will be apparent that the body of observations noted must have grown in the course of time to large and indeed to enormous proportions, and correspondingly the interpretations assigned to the nearly endless variations in the phenomena thus observed.

Hence in "liver" divination, as in astrology, the interpretations of the signs noted all have reference to public affairs and events and not to the individual's needs or desires.

When it is added that Jefferson's assertions, alike as regards Hamilton's talk 3 and the intent and tendency of his political measures, were, to the extent of the underlying basic fact - but discounting Jefferson's somewhat intemperate interpretations - unquestionably true, 4 it cannot be accounted strange that Hamilton's Democratic opponents mistook his theoretic predilections for positive designs.

We can't resolve the ambivalence in Marx -- or at least in possible interpretations of Marx.

He was curious to hear different theories or interpretations.

There are key themes which recur throughout this book, Polish history, literary adaptations and Freudian interpretations.

I will not belabor the relevant quatrain interpretations here that are in my book.

They were joined by cellist Truls Mørk who played exquisite interpretations of Prokofiev and Elgar.

The basis of your on-list interpretations of the texts should be consistent with mainstream Egyptology.

So those are two rather graphic little rabbinic interpretations.

Porter's new history of public health clearly is more sophisticated in its interpretations than was George Rosen's in 1958.

Great works of art - and such Dawn of the Dead undeniably is - allow a multitude of different and often mutually hostile interpretations.

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Or even where Academics agree on the facts, they may believe the facts support radically differing interpretations.

In that case, from which of the varying interpretations of the Koran would my going astray be a result?

Most dream interpretations are based on folklore or psychology.

However, interpretations are different, and issues can be complicated SB In Blackpool, we were labeled as religious moralists to be ignored.

His female nudes radiate a disquiet that is all too absent from many contemporary British interpretations of a woman's privacy.

It enables students to create their own interpretations of museum objects through descriptions, images and sounds.

A range of stellar phenomenology and behavior will be presented together with basic astrophysical interpretations.

All the standard interpretations of quantum theory posit that the cosmos changes in accordance with causal principles that are stochastic or probabilistic.

Many current interpretations emphasize the healing side of shamanism, but this is only one aspect of the shaman's work.

These traditional interpretations are now being queried, not least by a renewed interest in the archeology of ancient religious activity, including shamanism.

In social science at present there are three main interpretations of market socialism are popular now.

Skipping on the backs of recent Asian music trends, the Buttersprites subvert the stereotypes into strangely classic interpretations of a fad.

The simplicity of the model restricts our interpretations to be merely suggestive rather than definitive.

I think it's terrific that we're all going to have different interpretations.

Emotionally troubled parents frequently reinforce skewed interpretations with abuse.

The first edition, with a full commentary based on scientific principles, was that of Aufrecht and Kirchhoff in 1849-1851, and on this all subsequent interpretations are based (Breal, Paris, 1875; Bucheler, Umbrica, Bonn, 1883, a reprint and enlargement of articles in Fleckeisen's Jahrbuch, 18 75, pp. 127 and 313).

Poverty of expression is apt to cloak the real spirit of primitive prayer, and the formula under which its aspirations may be summed up, namely, "Blessings come, evils go," covers all sorts of confused notions about a grace to be acquired and an impurity to be wiped away, which, as far back as our clues take us, invite interpretations of a decidedly spiritualistic and ethical order.

The other subjects are Marriage (yabaK aoyos), Continence, the Duties of Bishops, Presbyters, Deacons and Widows, Prophecy, the Soul, the Transmigration of the Soul and the Devil, Angels, the Origin of the World, First Principles and the Divinity of the Logos, Allegorical Interpretations of Statements made with regard to God's anger and similar affections, the Unity of the Church, and the Resurrection.

The question at once arises, Can the simple historic faith be maintained without adding theological interpretations, those arid wastes of dogma in which the springs of faith and reverence run dry?