2. To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets
the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.
Syn. — To translate; explain; solve; render; expound; elucidate; decipher; unfold; unravel.
Interpret
(In*ter"pret), v. i. To act as an interpreter. Shak.
Interpretable
(In*ter"pret*a*ble) a. [L. interpretabilis: cf. F. interprêtable.] Admitting of interpretation; capable
of being interpreted or explained.
Interpretament
(In*ter"pre*ta*ment) n. [L. interpretamentum.] Interpretation. [Obs.] Milton.
Interpretation
(In*ter`pre*ta"tion) n. [L. interpretatio: cf. F. interprétation.]
1. The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation
of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
Look how we can, or sad or merrily,
Interpretation will misquote our looks.
Shak. 2. The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give
various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
3. The power or explaining. [R.] Bacon.
4. (Fine Arts) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
5. (Math.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulæ to the explanation of the results
obtained in special cases.
Syn. — Explanation; solution; translation; version; sense; exposition; rendering; definition.
Interpretative
(In*ter"pre*ta*tive) a. [Cf. F. interprétatif.]
1. Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. "Interpretative lexicography." Johnson.
2. According to interpretation; constructive.
An interpretative siding with heresies.
Hammond. Interpretatively
(In*ter"pre*ta*tive*ly), adv. By interpretation. Ray.
Interpreter
(In*ter"pret*er) n. [Cf. OF. entrepreteur, L. interpretator.] One who or that which interprets,
explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.
We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts.
Locke. Interpretive
(In*ter"pre*tive) a. Interpretative. [R.]
Interpubic
(In`ter*pu"bic) a. (Anat.) Between the pubic bones or cartilages; as, the interpubic disk.
Interpunction
(In`ter*punc"tion) n. [L. interpunctio, fr. interpungere, interppunctum, to interpoint. See
Inter-, and Point.] The insertion of points between words or sentences; punctuation.
Interradial
(In`ter*ra"di*al) a. Between the radii, or rays; — in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate
animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
