Word Finder - interpreter

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One who conveys what a user of one language is saying or signing, in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating, to a user of a different language. (Contrasted with a translator.)

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A Japanese man who is tried before a German court is assisted by an interpreter in making oral statements.

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One who explains something, such as an art exhibit. One who does heritage interpretation.

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A program that executes another program written in a high-level language by reading the instructions in real time rather than by compiling it in advance.

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Programs written in the BASIC language are usually run through an interpreter, though some can be compiled.

An interpreter rode up to the group.

He was a seer and interpreter of signs, and a man of considerable influence.

He could, for one thing, be the interpreter of Germany to England.

During his northern voyages he had learnt Russian, and was employed as interpreter at court whenever Muscovite embassies visited Copenhagen.

At the age of fifteen he acted as an interpreter in the Crimean War.

Even as early as the time of David it would seem that Nathan assumed this more developed function as interpreter of Yahweh's righteous will to David.

He became best known, however, as the interpreter of Judaism to the Christian world.

The Abbe Barthelemy procured for him a pension, with the appointment of interpreter of oriental languages at the Royal Library.

Johns (Interpreter, April 1 9 06, "The Prophets of Babylonia") thinks that longer discourses moral, and predictive, fully equal to those of the Hebrew prophets, existed in Babylonia as early as the 3rd millennium B.C. but were curtailed into the brief sentences of the omen tablets.

His father served under Julius Caesar in the _capacity of secretary and interpreter.

Beautiful, charitable and pious, she mollified the fierce manners of her husband, who, according to her director and biographer, Turgot, acted as interpreter between her and the Gaelic-speaking ecclesiastics at their conferences.

The historian's grandfather became within his own circle a highly esteemed interpreter of Scripture, and held fast his profession even in the time of Julian.

To do so, of course, philosophy becomes the interpreter and the superior.

For, as an interpreter of human character in the drama, Goethe is without a rival among modern poets, and there is not one of his plays that does not contain a few scenes or characters which bear indisputable testimony to his mastery.

According to the Indian conception, these belts could tell by means of an interpreter the exact rule, provision or transaction talked into them at the time and of which they were the exclusive record.

Musa into Asia Minor to find out all about the Seven Sleepers which he discovered in the neighbourhood of Arabissus,' and Sallam the Interpreter to explore the situation of the famous wall of Gog and Magog, which he reached at the north-west frontier of China.

Webster declared that the Federal government through the Supreme Court was the ultimate expounder and interpreter of its own powers, while Calhoun championed the rights of the individual state under a written contract which reserved to each state its sovereignty.

Losing this on the disgrace of Fouquet in 1661, he was appointed secretary and interpreter of Eastern languages to the king.

What lends additional interest to the story is the fact that in the ambassador's suite there was an interpreter named Vigilas, who for fifty pounds of gold had promised to assassinate Attila.

But when they pass beyond this narrow sphere, as particularly in the Gathas, the Pahlavi translator becomes a defective and unreliable interpreter.

To the Indians he preached through an interpreter, and their interests he boldly and successfully defended by attacking the whites 1 Edwards recognized the abuse of impulses and impressions, opposed itinerant and lay preachers, and defended a well-ordered and well-educated clergy.

The emperor Alexander I., however, was apt to keep the direction of affairs in his own hands and so long as Alexander inclined to Liberalism Capo d'Istria was the interpreter of.

The princes who now succeeded one another in rapid succession were mostly Greeks from the Phanar quarter of Constantinople who had served the palace in the quality of dragoman (interpreter), or held some other court appointment.

The interview was carried on by the priest Vicente de Valverde, who addressed the Inca through an interpreter.

To this extraordinary harangue, which from its own nature and the faults of the interpreter must have been completely unintelligible, the Inca at first returned a very temperate answer.

His sermon on "Unitarian Christianity," preached at Baltimore in 1819, at the ordination of Jared Sparks, and that at New York in 1821, on "Unitarian Christianity most favourable to Piety," made him its interpreter.

They found a brilliant interpreter in Aeschines, who, after having been a tragic actor and a clerk to the assembly, had entered political life with the advantages of a splendid gift for eloquence, a fine presence, a happy address, a ready wit and a facile conscience.

But in its later days the Neo-Platonist school came more and more to find in Aristotle the best exponent and interpreter of the philosopher whom they thought divine.

He was the great interpreter of Aristotle to the later Schoolmen.

On coming up with the main body of rebels he saw that diplomacy gave a better chance of success than fighting, and, accompanied only by an interpreter, rode into the enemy's camp to discuss the situation.

The investigation of the conditions under which adaptation of nature to intelligence is conceivable and possible makes up the subject of the third great Kritik, the Kritik of Judgment, a work presenting unusual difficulties to the interpreter of the Kantian system.

It exactly mimics the behavior of the Python interpreter when it prints a stack trace.

The shell executes the second line as a normal shell command, and thus starts up the Perl interpreter.

E.g. it has no interpreter, only an incremental compiler.

Speaking through an interpreter, Mr Yu Jianwei told a London news conference that the company wanted Government aid to help with the project.

A Japanese interpreter attended a concert and later 'he came personally to thank me... and was a most charming conversationalist ' .

We see from this that the inference engine is the interpreter for a very high-level language.

In the radical interpreter Davidson is looking for the means of translation between mutually incomprehensible languages.

If the target interpreter for the alias is the invoking interpreter then an empty list is returned.

I hope with their support I will become a qualified interpreter in the future.

As an example, the bytecode interpreter shares argument objects between calling and called Tcl procedures to avoid having to copy objects.

Type 3 fonts, on the other hand, require a full postscript interpreter.

You can book an interpreter through an agency, or you can contact a freelance interpreter.

For example, an alias for source could be created in a slave interpreter.

There will be a sign language interpreter present at the Fair.

Unlike the translator, the interpreter renders the message in his/her mother tongue, giving the flavor, tone and convictions of the speaker.

The Interpreter does get a bit preachy at times with its (thinly) veiled resemblance to current political issues.

Smith refuses to become a keeper of sacred relics -- the living interpreter of his own back catalog.

At present there is a dire shortage with approximately one interpreter to every thousand BSL users.

The wise interpreter allows his knowledge of genres to control how he approaches each individual biblical text.