Search Result for "interpreter":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (4)
1. someone who mediates between speakers of different languages;
[syn: interpreter, translator]
2. someone who uses art to represent something;
- Example: "his paintings reveal a sensitive interpreter of nature"
- Example: "she was famous as an interpreter of Shakespearean roles"
3. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose;
- Example: "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
[syn: spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice]
4. (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time;
[syn: interpreter, interpretive program]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Interpreter \In*ter"pret*er\, n. [Cf. OF. entrepreteur, L. interpretator.] One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. [1913 Webster] We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. --Locke. [1913 Webster]The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "interpreter": allegorist, annotator, artist, artiste, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, concert artist, critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor, emendator, emender, euhemerist, executant, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, go-between, guide, hermeneut, lexicographer, maestro, metaphrast, minstrel, minstrelsy, music maker, musician, oneirocritic, paraphrast, performer, player, scholiast, soloist, textual critic, translator, tunester, virtuosa, virtuoso
