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/ɪntˌərprɪtˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Interpretation n.

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."

The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

The power or explaining. (R.)

(Fine Arts) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

(Math.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

Synonyms: Explanation; solution; translation; version; sense; exposition; rendering; definition.

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"Interpretation" Quotes from Famous Books

... than it awed; for either it limited Virtue to the mere belief, or by extending it to the practice, of Religion, it extended also the inquiry to the method in which the practice should be applied. But with the first interpretation of the dictate who could rest contented?—for while, in the perfect enforcement of the tenets of our faith, all virtue may be found, so in the passive and the mere belief in its divinity, we find only an engine as applicable ...

— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... know, who boast that they had the tale from the King's own mouth, I undertake to prove either that they are romancers who seek to add an inch to their stature, or dull fellows who placed their own interpretation on the hasty ...

— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman

... so you will always be the one to suffer. I don't mean merely in a case like this, where it comes to the police and the newspapers; I mean in social matters—where it is a question of your reputation, of the interpretation which people will place upon your actions. They have their wealth and their prestige and their privileges, and they stand at bay. They are perfectly willing to give a stranger a good time, if the stranger has a pretty face and a lively ...

— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair

... describe and illustrate in a familiar manner the principal laws and phenomena of light, but to point out the origin, and show the application, of the theoretic conceptions which underlie and unite the whole, and without which no real interpretation is possible. ...

— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall

... been hired to lead an impending pursuit of him in the wrong direction? What did it mean? Who was the friend to whose services he was indebted? As for the proceedings of the man-servant, but one interpretation could now be placed on them. They distinctly justified what Captain Bervie had said of him. Mr. Bowmore thought of the Captain's other assertion, relating to the urgent necessity for making his escape; and looked at Percy in silent dismay; ...

— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins

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