All 9 Uses
interpret
in
Vanity Fair
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- He was the interpreter for the party; having a good military knowledge of the German language, and he and the delighted George fought the campaigns of the Rhine and the Palatinate.†
Chpt 62 *interpreter = someone who translates language
- And she heard Beaumoris's laugh ringing on the stair and knew quite well how to interpret his hilarity.†
Chpt 64 *interpret = to understand or explain something in a particular way
- If they were cold, yet how perversely this fond little soul interpreted them into warmth.†
Chpt 18
- She gave George the queerest, knowingest look, when they were together, a look which might have been interpreted, "Don't you see the state of affairs, and what a fool I'm making of him?"†
Chpt 29
- This speech might be interpreted, "My dear sir, should an accident befall the army, and a retreat be necessary, you have a very comfortable carriage, in which I propose to take a seat."†
Chpt 31
- She grows daily more care-worn and sad, fixing upon her child alarmed eyes, whereof the little boy cannot interpret the expression.†
Chpt 50
- You see I want—I want—to be—" He did not finish the sentence, but she could interpret it.†
Chpt 53
- Kirsch emerging presently from the neighbourhood of the hold, where he had been bellowing instructions intermingled with polyglot oaths to the ship's men engaged in secreting the passengers' luggage, came to give an account of himself to his brother interpreters.†
Chpt 62
- Love and Liberty are interpreted by those simple Germans in a way which honest folks in Yorkshire and Somersetshire little understand, and a lady might, in some philosophic and civilized towns, be divorced ever so many times from her respective husbands and keep her character in society.†
Chpt 67
Definitions:
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(1)
(interpret as in: interpret Spanish to English) to translate someone’s words into spoken words of another language while they are speaking
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(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
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(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)