interpreter
/ɪnˈtɝ.pɹɪ.tɚ/ noun B2- A person or thing that interprets the meaning of something for another, particularly · ... an interpreter of dreams ...
- A person or thing that translates speech or signing, as opposed to texts. · A Japanese man who is tried before a German court is assisted by an interpreter in making oral statements.
- Synonym of guide, one who explains a thing, person, or group of people. · At the historic site, there are a number of interpreters who demonstrate ancient crafts.
- A thing that, figuratively speaking, performs a similar role explaining, revealing, or clarifying.
- A machine that reads the pattern of holes on a punch card and prints its meaning along the top of the card.
- An analyst of reconnaissance photographs.
- A program that converts commands into machine language in real time rather than compiling it in advance. · Programs written in BASIC are usually run through an interpreter rather than a compiler.
- A performer who presents a piece of art in a distinct style, particularly so as to make older works relevant to their audience. · ... one of the foremost interpreters of Beethoven's piano works ...
Plural interpreters
From the library
“You accept this young lady as your interpreter, M.
I had some vague recollection of an explanation at the time of the Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.
Without having been in the school of the Abbé Faria, the worthy master of La Jeune Amélie (the name of the Genoese tartan) knew a smattering of all the tongues spoken on the shores of that large lake called the Mediterranean, from the Arabic to the Provençal, and this, while it spared him interpreters, persons always troublesome and frequently indiscreet, gave him great facilities of communication, either with the vessels he met at sea, with the small boats sailing along the coast, or with the people without name, country, or occupation, who are always seen on the quays of seaports, and who live by hidden and mysterious means which we must suppose to be a direct gift of Providence, as they have no visible means of support.
It had been supposed some of the papers might be in the Arabian, Romaic, or Turkish language, and the interpreter of the House was in attendance.
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