to interpret

Examples

• All

• Educators are relying more on percentile ranks as a useful way to interpret scores for parents and students.

  Academic text (1994)

• You know, music that everybody knows but will hear differently when you interpret it for them.

  TÁR (2022)

• And the big theme is to interpret text through art.

• Other clients are more than happy to just let the artist interpret the script as written.

  Film Courage

• And so it would be a slightly more powerful claim, but I think, I guess I interpret it a little bit more poetically.

• There is a release when you allow it to not be yours anymore, when you allow someone else to interpret it in whatever way that they feel.

  Rich Roll

• It's one thing to interpret the universe and then create some work of art that emanates from your own perspective.

  StarTalk

• Singers must interpret rhythm and pitch while focusing on vowels and singing in foreign languages.

  Academic text (2011)

• There was Warsaw, where writers leisurely sipped tea, and interpreted the life of the times.

  Genocide (1982)

• As a professional musician, I always try to interpret the piece in a way that reflects my emotions.

Synonyms

P

to portray

vsto interpret

118 3.7

To play a character in a film or play

emphasizes the performer's own understanding and feelings rather than only representing a role

R

to render

vsto interpret

52 6.3

To show an idea in an artistic way, for example in music, art, or translation

shows personal understanding and feelings when performing the work

Antonyms

M

to misinterpret

23 4.2

To understand something in the wrong way

Phrasal Verbs

I

to interpret away

• Informal

8.0

To say problems or criticism are not serious by changing their meaning

How Personal

to improvise

141 4.0

to reinterpret

10 5.8

to interpret

15 4.1

to play

∞ 1.0

to perform

583 2.7

Surface Forms

Etymology