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say it: in-TUR-pruht
interpret is a verb meaning "make sense of; assign a meaning to". It carries 6 recorded senses.
make sense of; assign a meaning to
“What message do you see in this letter?”
“How do you interpret his behavior?”
give an interpretation or explanation to
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.”
make sense of a language
“She understands French”
“Can you read Greek?”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for interpret come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.