<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.</li><li>to construe or understand in a particular way: to interpret a reply as favorable.</li><li>to bring out the meaning of (a dramatic work, music, etc.) by performance or execution.</li><li>to perform or render (a song, role in a play, etc.) according to one's own understanding or sensitivity: The actor interpreted Lear as a weak, pitiful old man.</li><li>to translate orally.</li><li>Computers. interpreter (def 3).</li><li>to use an interpreter to transform (a program written in a high-level language) into a sequence of machine actions, one statement at a time, executing each statement immediately before going on to transform the next one.</li><li>to read (the patterns of holes in punched cards) with an interpreter, printing the interpreted data on the same cards so that they can be read more conveniently by people.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to translate what is said in a foreign language.</li><li>to explain something; give an explanation.</li></ul>