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interpreter

[ in-tur-pri-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who interprets.
  2. a person who provides an oral translation between speakers who speak different languages.
  3. Computers.
    1. hardware or software that transforms one statement at a time of a program written in a high-level language into a sequence of machine actions and executes the statement immediately before going on to transform the next statement. Compare compiler ( def 2 ).
    2. an electromechanical device that reads the patterns of holes in punched cards and prints the same data on the cards, so that they can be read more conveniently by people.


interpreter

/ ɪˈɜːɪə /

noun

  1. a person who translates orally from one language into another
  2. a person who interprets the work of others
  3. computing
    1. a program that translates a second program to machine code one statement at a time and causes the execution of the resulting code as soon as the translation is completed
    2. a machine that interprets the holes in a punched card and prints the corresponding characters on that card
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈٱٱˌ󾱱, noun
  • ˈٱٰ, noun:feminine
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of interpreter1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English interpretour, from Anglo-French; equivalent to interpret + -er 2
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“Overall, in my career,” he said through interpreter Will Ireton, “I don’t really have a hot start in the beginning of the season.”

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It is "American Psycho," a fictional tale of infamy inside the protagonist's mind and cruelly appointed apartment, that showed Harron as a master visual interpreter of popular literature as well as popular history.

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Disney also offers sign-language interpreters, wheelchair and scooter rentals, assistive handheld captioning and video captioning on some rides, and dialogue and narration of scripts on others.

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These reminders can range from having to face medical appointments with no available interpreter to being excluded from important decisions about your own life, he says.

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“It was definitely a sense of relief,” Pages said in Spanish through a team interpreter after the game.

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