| 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" |
| translate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. transform, translate | change from one form or medium into another.; "Braque translated collage into oil" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ metricise, metricize | express in the metric system. |
| ~ diagonalise, diagonalize | transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix. |
| v. (contact) | 2. translate | bring to a certain spiritual state. |
| ~ channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport, transfer | send from one person or place to another.; "transmit a message" |
| v. (change) | 3. translate | change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation. |
| ~ geometry | the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces. |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (stative) | 4. translate | be equivalent in effect.; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power" |
| ~ equal, be | be identical or equivalent to.; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" |
| v. (stative) | 5. translate | be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way.; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English" |
| ~ translate, interpret, render | 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." |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (motion) | 6. translate | subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body. |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (communication) | 7. translate | express, as in simple and less technical language.; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?" |
| ~ paraphrase, rephrase, reword | express the same message in different words. |
| v. (communication) | 8. translate | determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA. |
| ~ genetic science, genetics | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms. |
| ~ ascertain, determine, find out, find | establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" |
| version | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. version | an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint.; "his version of the fight was different from mine" |
| ~ approximation | an imprecise or incomplete account.; "newspapers gave only an approximation of the actual events" |
| ~ interpretation | an explanation that results from interpreting something.; "the report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. edition, variant, variation, version | something a little different from others of the same type.; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father" |
| ~ type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing.; "what type of sculpture do you prefer?" |
| n. (communication) | 3. adaptation, version | a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form.; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel" |
| ~ piece of writing, written material, writing | the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect).; "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" |
| ~ modernization | a modernized version (as of a play). |
| ~ versification | a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text). |
| n. (communication) | 4. interlingual rendition, rendering, translation, version | a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language. |
| ~ mistranslation | an incorrect translation. |
| ~ crib, pony, trot | a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly). |
| ~ retroversion | translation back into the original language.; "the teacher translated Latin texts into English which he gave to his students for retroversion" |
| ~ subtitle, caption | translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. |
| ~ supertitle, surtitle | translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage. |
| ~ written account, written record | a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. interpretation, reading, version | a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something. |
| ~ internal representation, mental representation, representation | a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image. |
| ~ reinterpretation | a new or different meaning. |
| ~ anagoge | a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture). |
| n. (act) | 6. version | manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery). |
| ~ turning, turn | the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course.; "he took a turn to the right" |
| unchain | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. unchain | remove the chains from. |
| ~ unfasten | cause to become undone.; "unfasten your belt" |
| v. (contact) | 2. unchain | make free. |
| ~ free, loose, unloose, unloosen, liberate, release | grant freedom to; free from confinement. |
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