has particulars: exposition, expounding, construal, clarification, elucidation, illumination, eisegesis, exegesis, ijtihad, literal interpretation, version, reading, construction, twist, reconstruction, popularisation, popularization, misinterpretation, mistaking, misunderstanding

Derived forms verb interpret₁, verb interpret₂

interpretation(n = noun.cognition) interpreting, rendering, rendition - an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning"

has particulars: broad interpretation, judicial activism

is a kind of explanation

Derived forms verb interpret₁, verb interpret₂, verb interpret₃

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Interpretation, n. [L. interpretatio: cf. F. interprétation.].

The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma. [1913 Webster]
"Look how we can, or sad or merrily,
Interpretation will misquote our looks." [1913 Webster]
The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture. [1913 Webster]
The power or explaining. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. [1913 Webster]
The act or process of applying general principles or formulæ to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

Syn. -- Explanation; solution; translation; version; sense; exposition; rendering; definition.

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THESAURUS

Interpretation

accomplishment, analysis, answer, ascertainment, clarification, clearing up, construal, construction, cracking, decipherment, decoding, definition, denouement, determination, diagnosis, disentanglement, elucidation, end, end result, examination, exegesis, explanation, explication, expose, exposition, finding, finding-out, illustration, inference, issue, outcome, paraphrasing, reading, reason, rendering, rendition, resolution, resolving, result, riddling, simplification, solution, solving, sorting out, translation, understanding, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, version, working, working-out

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ROGET THESAURUS

Interpretation

Identification

N identification, recognition, diagnosis, match, apperception, assimilation, dereplication, classification, memory, interpretation, cognizance (knowledge).

Interpretation

N interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.

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