Definition of Interpretation
Interpretation
The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
The power or explaining.
An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
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Interpretation Quotations
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund Freud
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
George Eliot
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Pablo Casals
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams
Interpretation Translations
interpretation in Afrikaans is vertolking
interpretation in Dutch is interpretatie, vertolking, uitlegging
interpretation in German is Ausdeutung {f}, Interpretierung {f}
interpretation in Norwegian is tolkning, fortolkning
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