Usually means: Explain meaning of something communicated.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. interpret: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. interpret: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. interpret: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. interpret: Collins English Dictionary
  5. interpret: Vocabulary.com
  6. Interpret, interpret: Wordnik
  7. interpret: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. interpret: Wiktionary
  9. interpret: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. interpret: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. interpret: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. interpret: Dictionary.com
  13. interpret: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. interpret: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Interpret: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Interpret: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. interpret: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. interpret: Rhymezone
  19. interpret: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. interpret: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. interpret: Free Dictionary
  22. interpret: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. interpret: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. interpret: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. interpret: CCI Computer
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. interpret: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. interpret: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. interpret: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See interpretability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To decode the meaning of a topic and then act, whether to continue researching the topic, follow through, act in opposition, or further the understanding through sharing an interpretation.
verb:  To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.
verb:  To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation
verb:  (intransitive) To convey what a user of one language is saying or signing, in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating, to a user of a different language
verb:  (computing, transitive) To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.

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