| interpret | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. construe, interpret, see | make sense of; assign a meaning to.; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" |
| ~ understand | know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" |
| ~ be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand, misinterpret | interpret in the wrong way.; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks" |
| ~ read between the lines | read what is implied but not expressed on the surface. |
| ~ mythicise, mythicize | interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology.; "mythicize the ancient stories" |
| ~ literalise, literalize | make literal.; "literalize metaphors" |
| ~ spiritualise, spiritualize | give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense. |
| ~ reinterpret | assign a new or different meaning to. |
| ~ allegorise, allegorize | interpret as an allegory. |
| ~ read, take | interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression.; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" |
| ~ read | interpret something that is written or printed.; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?" |
| ~ read, scan | obtain data from magnetic tapes.; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" |
| ~ consider, regard, view, reckon, see | deem to be.; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" |
| ~ educe, elicit, evoke, extract, draw out | deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).; "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant" |
| v. (communication) | 2. interpret, rede | give an interpretation or explanation to. |
| ~ moralise, moralize | interpret the moral meaning of.; "moralize a story" |
| ~ deconstruct | interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing. |
| ~ re-explain, reinterpret | interpret from a different viewpoint. |
| ~ commentate | serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting. |
| ~ misinterpret | interpret falsely. |
| ~ explain, explicate | make plain and comprehensible.; "He explained the laws of physics to his students" |
| ~ annotate, gloss, comment | provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases.; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" |
| ~ commentate | make a commentary on. |
| v. (creation) | 3. interpret, render | give an interpretation or rendition of.; "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully" |
| ~ performing arts | arts or skills that require public performance. |
| ~ perform, do, execute | carry out or perform an action.; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" |
| ~ sing | deliver by singing.; "Sing Christmas carols" |
| v. (creation) | 4. interpret, represent | create an image or likeness of.; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" |
| ~ artistic creation, artistic production, art | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ re-create | create anew.; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale" |
| ~ carnalize, sensualize | represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture. |
| ~ silhouette | represent by a silhouette. |
| ~ animalise, animalize | represent in the form of an animal. |
| ~ profile | represent in profile, by drawing or painting. |
| ~ paint | make a painting of.; "He painted his mistress many times" |
| ~ capture | succeed in representing or expressing something intangible.; "capture the essence of Spring"; "capture an idea" |
| ~ depict, picture, show, render | show in, or as in, a picture.; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" |
| ~ stylise, stylize, conventionalize | represent according to a conventional style.; "a stylized female head" |
| ~ map | make a map of; show or establish the features of details of.; "map the surface of Venus" |
| ~ limn, portray, depict | make a portrait of.; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba" |
| ~ portray, present | represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture.; "The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting" |
| ~ draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" |
| ~ mock up, model | construct a model of.; "model an airplane" |
| ~ graph, chart | represent by means of a graph.; "chart the data" |
| v. (communication) | 5. interpret, render, translate | restate (words) from one language into another language.; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N." |
| ~ ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell | to say, state, or perform again.; "She kept reiterating her request" |
| ~ retranslate | translate again. |
| ~ mistranslate | translate incorrectly. |
| ~ gloss | provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase. |
| ~ latinize | translate into Latin. |
| ~ translate | be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way.; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. interpret, read, translate, understand | make sense of a language.; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" |
| ~ understand | know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" |
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