interpret

make sense of

assign a meaning to

"What message do you see in this letter?"

"How do you interpret his behavior?" give an interpretation or explanation to give an interpretation or rendition of

"The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully" create an image or likeness of

"The painter represented his wife as a young girl" restate (words) from one language into another language

"I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."

"Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"

"She rendered the French poem into English"

"He translates for the U.N." make sense of a language

"She understands French"

"Can you read Greek?"

Interpretation, or interpreting, is an activity that consists of establishing, either simultaneously or consecutively, oral or gestural communications between two or more speakers who are not able to use the same set of symbols. By definition it is available as a method only in those cases where there is a need for interpretation - if an object (of art, of speech, etc.) is obvious to begin with, it cannot draw an interpretation. In any case the term interpretation is ambiguous, as it may refer to both an ongoing process and a result.''Interpretation'' is a term used in informal education settings to describe any communication process designed to reveal meanings and relationships of cultural and natural heritage through first hand involvement with an object, artifact, landscape or site. This is primarily known as Heritage Interpretationheritage interpretation. An ''interpretation'' can be the part of a presentation or portrayal of information altered in order to conform to a specific set of symbols. This may be a spoken, written, picturepictorial, mathematical, sculpturesculptural, filmcinematic, geometric or any other form of language. The purpose of interpretation would normally be to increase the possibility of understanding, but sometimes, as in propaganda or brainwashing, the purpose may be to evade understanding and increase confusion.

See also -

Fine art

Heritage Interpretation

Hermeneutics

Interpreting

Representation (arts)

Semiotics

Translation

Transderivational search

External links -

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