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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

/ ɪ²Ôˈ³Ùɜ˱è°ùɪ³ÙÉ™ /

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
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Derived Forms

  • ¾±²Ôˈ³Ù±ð°ù±è°ù±ð³Ù±ð°ùËŒ²õ³ó¾±±è, noun
  • ¾±²Ôˈ³Ù±ð°ù±è°ù±ð³Ù°ù±ð²õ²õ, noun:feminine
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˜yÐÄvlog 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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An Afghan interpreter was also arrested alongside the British couple.

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My dad was a nuclear engineer and my mom worked as a translator and interpreter, and English is her second language.

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As John Blackthorne, a shipwrecked English navigator who is taken prisoner, he becomes involved in a battle among warlords seeking to become Japan’s supreme military ruler and falls in love with his married interpreter.

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Giving evidence through an interpreter, the defendant denied the figure was him and insisted he had been at home with his mother and sister throughout that evening.

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During the hearing, Tin — through an interpreter — denied having smuggled as many turtles as the government claimed.

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