Definition of Interpreter

Interpreter

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.

Related Definitions:

Between, Especially, One, Or, Orally, Parties, Person, That, Translator, Two, Which, Who

Interpreter Quotations

The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Karl Barth

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
Aaliyah

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Charlotte Bronte

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Nicolas Chamfort

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Tim Berners-Lee

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Nat King Cole

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.
Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
Diana Ross

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
Mandy Patinkin

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.
Ruggiero Ricci

I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.
Ruggiero Ricci

I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.
Marc Anthony

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.
Lewis Tappan

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
Thomas Kuhn

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
John Morley

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
John Foster

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Interpreter Translations

interpreter in Dutch is interpreter
interpreter in Italian is traduttore
interpreter in Norwegian is tolk

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