All 5 Uses of
interpret
in
Childhood's End
- Can you really blame them if they put a bad interpretation on your unwillingness to show yourselves?†
Chpt 2 *
- The speed of transmission made it certain that no Interpreter, even if he had mastered the elements of the 87 language, could ever keep up with the Overlords in their normal conversation.†
Chpt 9
- Now another picture was beginning to form on the screen: because of the angle of view, it was some tune before Jan could interpret what he saw.†
Chpt 11
- Certainly he neither spoke nor understood English, and Vindarten had to act as interpreter.†
Chpt 22 *
- We are the interpreters-the guardians.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(interpret as in: interpret Spanish to English) to translate words into spoken words of another language
(This word is especially used in place of translate when the translation is done real-time, or on-the-fly, or immediately as needed.)
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(interpret as in: her interpretation of the data) to understand or explain something in a particular way -- often the meaning or significance of something