All 6 Uses

interpret
in
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
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The chairman, Alfonse Stompanato, seemed to feel that one of the other instructors, a three-hundred-pound former rock 'n' roll bodyguard named Dimitrios Cotsakis, had established prior right by having flown to Memphis when the King died, interviewed members of the King's entourage and family, been inter viewed himself on local television as an Interpreter of the Phenomenon.†
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interpreter = someone who translates language
It seemed to need a more careful interpretation than I was able to provide at the moment.†
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interpretation = a particular understanding or explanation
Sometimes I feel I've wandered into a Far Eastern dream, too remote to be interpreted.†
Part 1
The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted.†
Part 1

misinterpreted = wrongly translated

standard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misinterpreted means wrong and reverses the meaning of interpreted. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
She was solemn about warnings, interpreted danger as a state too lacking in detail and precision to be confined to a certain time and place.†
Part 2
But over a period of time it became possible to interpret such things as signs of a deep-reaching isolation we were beginning to feel.†
Part 3

Definitions:

(1) (interpret as in: interpret Spanish to English)
to translate someone’s words into spoken words of another language while they are speaking
(2) (interpret as in: her interpretation of the data)
to understand or explain something in a particular way -- often the meaning or significance of something
(3) (interpret as in: her musical interpretation)
capture someone else's ideas, or express personal artistic ideas or feelings while performing someone else's work
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)