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interpreter

[ in-tur-pri-ter ]

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noun

a person who interprets.
a person who provides an oral translation between speakers who speak different languages.
Computers.
1. 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 ).
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.

interpreter

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noun

a person who translates orally from one language into another
a person who interprets the work of others
computing
1. a program that translates a second program to machine code one statement at a time and causes the execution of the resulting code as soon as the translation is completed
2. a machine that interprets the holes in a punched card and prints the corresponding characters on that card

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Derived Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of interpreter¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English interpretour, from Anglo-French; equivalent to interpret + -er ²

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An additional 85 professional court staff members — including 19 judges, interpreters, legal assistants and IT specialists took buyouts after receiving a “Fork in the Road” email that offered federal workers “deferred resignations.”

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I asked my soulless Jesus interpreter in my phone.

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“Overall, in my career,” he said through interpreter Will Ireton, “I don’t really have a hot start in the beginning of the season.”

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It is "American Psycho," a fictional tale of infamy inside the protagonist's mind and cruelly appointed apartment, that showed Harron as a master visual interpreter of popular literature as well as popular history.

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Disney also offers sign-language interpreters, wheelchair and scooter rentals, assistive handheld captioning and video captioning on some rides, and dialogue and narration of scripts on others.

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