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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

... friendly, changes to insolence and then to fierceness. They demand powder and shot, and when they are refused begin to brandish their tomahawks. A tall chief, motioning to the band to keep back, now accosts Mr. Chase, and through Antoine as an interpreter, informs him that unless the demands of his braves are complied with he will not be responsible for the consequences; that they are out on the war-trail and their eyes red with blood so that they cannot ...

— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler

... which I printed in a previous volume of this series. "The Luck Piece" and "The Gallowsmith," though sharply contrasted in subject matter, reveal the same profound understanding of American life which makes Mr. Cobb almost our best interpreter in fiction to readers in other countries. Like Mark Twain, Mr. Cobb is quite uncritical of his own work, and two of these stories are of merely ephemeral value. I should like no better task than to edite a selection of Mr. Cobb's stories in one volume for introduction to the English public, and ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... the water fairies' domain, and went into the world again. In the long commonplace street of shops through which we had passed in coming, Aunt Fay stopped. She had torn a silk flounce on her petticoat, and would thank me to act as interpreter in buying a box of safety-pins. I made the demand, and could not see why the two girls and their chaperon had to stifle laughter when an earnest, flaxen-haired maiden began industriously to count the ...

— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson

... is a very graceful interpreter of child-life. She thoroughly understands how to reach out to the tender chord of the little one's feelings, and to interest her in the noble life of her young companions. Her stories are full of bright lessons, but they do not take on the character of moralizing ...

— Little Prudy • Sophie May

... into the broth; and as I cooked it without doors, (for I made no fire within my inner wall) so I carried it all into the new tent; and having set a table there for them, I sat down and ate my dinner also with them; and, as well as I could, cheered them and encouraged them, Friday being my interpreter, especially to his father, and indeed to the Spaniard too; for the Spaniard spoke the language of the ...

— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe

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