Definitions for interpreter

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interpreter in·ter·pret·er

Spelling: [in-tur-pri-ter]

IPA: /ɪnˈtɜr prɪ tər/

Interpreter is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in interpreter (eeeinprrrtt).

Definitions for interpreter

noun

1. a person who interprets.
2. a person who provides an oral translation between speakers who speak different languages.
3. Computers. hardware or software that transforms one statement at a time of a program written in a high-level language into a sequence of machine actions and executes the statement immediately before going on to transform the next statement. Compare compiler (def 2). an electromechanical device that reads the patterns of holes in punched cards and prints the same data on the cards, so that they can be read more conveniently by people.

Origin of interpreter

1350-1400; Middle English interpretour Anglo-French; see interpret, -er²

Examples for interpreter

Our Pashto interpreter explained how he had pretended to be a Pakistani policeman when interested crowds approached the compound.

But he continued to study English every day and eventually was accepted as an interpreter.

In such a case the larger community would be the interpreter.

Follow the latest with the liveblog of The interpreter, a website covering Russian media and the war in Ukraine.

It was, indeed, necessary for me to converse by the medium of an interpreter.

Shadman started as a laborer, but within a year became an interpreter because he could speak English.

I went among them, accompanied only by an interpreter, and asked where their sultan and elders were.

The interpreter, his countryman, called these Portuguese 'white gentlemen.'

What my private sentiments are, you will find out without an interpreter.

The grunt takes a hard look at our interpreter, rotates his M16 and opens the vehicle door, motioning for us to get out.