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{
"term": "interpret",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "interpret",
"heSheIt": "interprets"
},
"pastSimple": "interpreted",
"pastParticiple": "interpreted",
"ingForm": "interpreting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to explain the meaning of something",
"sensetop": "interpret something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The students were asked to interpret the poem."
},
{
"text": "The **data** can be **interpreted** in many different ways."
},
{
"text": "These **results** must be **interpreted** cautiously."
},
{
"text": "judges who will faithfully interpret the Constitution"
},
{
"text": "These figures cannot be easily interpreted."
},
{
"text": "We all seek to interpret what we hear and what we read."
},
{
"text": "The figure of the Ancient Mariner has been variously interpreted."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["accurately", "correctly", "properly"],
"verb + interpret": ["be difficult to", "be hard to", "be able to"],
"preposition": ["as"],
"phrases": [
"be interpreted to mean something",
"be variously interpreted (as something)",
"be widely interpreted as something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to decide that something has a particular meaning and to understand it in this way",
"sensetop": "interpret something as somethinginterpret something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I didn't know whether to interpret her silence as acceptance or refusal.",
"contextForm": "interpret something as something"
},
{
"text": "The research focused on how parents interpret the behaviour of their toddlers.",
"contextForm": "interpret something"
},
{
"text": "Different people might interpret events differently."
},
{
"text": "The title could be interpreted to mean ‘human intelligence’."
},
{
"text": "The term ‘business’ is here interpreted broadly to include all types of organization in the public and private sectors."
},
{
"text": "Her message was interpreted as a warning to the general."
},
{
"text": "His resignation has been widely interpreted as an admission of his guilt."
},
{
"text": "The strictness of the rules, even when liberally interpreted, has the effect of restricting innovation."
},
{
"text": "It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["accurately", "correctly", "properly"],
"verb + interpret": ["be difficult to", "be hard to", "be able to"],
"preposition": ["as"],
"phrases": [
"be interpreted to mean something",
"be variously interpreted (as something)",
"be widely interpreted as something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to translate one language into another as it is spoken",
"sensetop": "interpret for somebodyinterpret something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He took me with him to interpret in case no one spoke English."
},
{
"text": "She couldn't speak much English so her children had to interpret for her.",
"contextForm": "interpret for somebody"
},
{
"text": "Interpreters must interpret everything that is said in the interaction.",
"contextForm": "interpret something"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["accurately", "correctly", "properly"],
"verb + interpret": ["be difficult to", "be hard to", "be able to"],
"preposition": ["as"],
"phrases": [
"be interpreted to mean something",
"be variously interpreted (as something)",
"be widely interpreted as something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to perform a piece of music, a role in a play, etc. in a way that shows your feelings about its meaning",
"sensetop": "interpret something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He interpreted the role with a lot of humour."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtɜːprət/",
"audio": "in/interpret/interpret__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtɜːprəts/",
"audio": "in/interpret/interprets__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtɜːprətɪd/",
"audio": "in/interpret/interpreted__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtɜːprətɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/interpret/interpreting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtɜːrprət/",
"audio": "in/interpret/interpret__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtɜːrprəts/",
"audio": "in/interpret/interprets__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtɜːrprətɪd/",
"audio": "in/interpret/interpreted__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtɜːrprətɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/interpret/interpreting__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French interpreter or Latin interpretari ‘explain, translate’, from interpres, interpret- ‘agent, translator, interpreter’."
}