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Adjective interpreted has 1 sense
- interpreted, taken - understood in a certain way; made sense of; "a word taken literally"; "a smile taken as consent"; "an open door interpreted as an invitation"
Antonym: ununderstood (indirect, via understood)
Verb interpret has 6 senses
- interpret, construe, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
--1 is one way to understand
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue interpret the movie
They won't interpret the story
- interpret - give an interpretation or explanation to
--2 is one way to explain, explicate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- interpret, render - give an interpretation or rendition of; "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"
--3 is one way to perform, execute, do
Sample sentence:
They will interpret the duet
- represent, interpret - create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl"
--4 is one way to re-create
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- 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."
--5 is one way to repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- understand, read, interpret, translate - make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
--6 is one way to understand
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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