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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.

    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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Other Word Forms

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Word 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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Example Sentences

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“It’s really emotional, a special moment to hit a home run in that situation because I haven’t seen him,” Pages said through an interpreter, speaking about his father back in Cuba.

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His legacy is of course in the music, and any interpreter of that legacy has to be sharp and devoted to it.

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On Monday morning, two teenage boys appeared in court and confirmed their names and ages through a Romanian interpreter.

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They spoke through an interpreter in Romanian to confirm their names and ages.

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They confirmed their names and ages through a Romanian interpreter at Coleraine Magistrates' Court on Monday morning.

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