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Interpreter

noun

Someone who mediates between speakers of different languages. Synonym: translator.

Someone who uses art to represent something. "She was famous as an interpreter of Shakespearean roles"

An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose. Synonyms: representative, spokesperson, voice.

(computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time. Synonym: interpretive program.

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"Interpreter" Quotes from Famous Books

... taste that is very general," said MTutor, indulgently; "but I am sure Lady Randolph appreciates the efforts of a conscientious interpreter—one who calls all the resources of ...

— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant

... and thou sleepest. Go, lie, say to the wretch who appeals to thee, 'Hope, be patient, suffer; the hospital of souls will receive thee; the angels will assist thee; Heaven opens to thee.' Impostor! thou knowest well that the angels, disgusted at thine inertness, abandon thee! Thou wast to be the Interpreter of our plaints, the Chamberlain of our tears; thou wast to convey them to the Father and thou hast not done so, for this intercession would disturb thine ...

— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... stuffing me? Do they really seize people, or is it a traveller's tale?" said Ned, appealing to his uncle; but the Malay, who had been engaged from his knowledge of English to act as interpreter up the river, caught at the boy's words, though he did ...

— The Rajah of Dah • George Manville Fenn

... of the god stood the goddess, a colorless reflection of the god, like the woman by the side of the man. The divine pair were accompanied by a son, the heir to his father's power and his representative and interpreter. As man stood at the head of created things in this world, so, too, the god stood at the head of all creation. He had called all things into existence, and could destroy ...

— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce

... for the Place St. Isaac, and picked up an interpreter at the Grand Morskaia Hotel on the way. It might be useful to have him. At the Place St. Isaac he learned the Morazoffs and Natacha Trebassof had gone by train for luncheon at Bergalowe, one of the nearby stations ...

— The Secret of the Night • Gaston Leroux

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