Word Meanings - INTERPRETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTERPRETER)
- Commentator
- Interpreter
- explainer
- note-maker
- scholiast
- expositor
- glossary
- elucidator
- Exponent
- propounder
- advocate
- representative
Related words: (words related to INTERPRETER)
- ADVOCATE
advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or - ELUCIDATORY
Tending to elucidate; elucidative. - EXPONENT
A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated; Note: thus a2 denotes the second power, and an the xth power, - PROPOUNDER
One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth. - EXPOSITOR
One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley. - REPRESENTATIVELY
In a representative manner; vicariously. - COMMENTATORSHIP
The office or occupation of a commentator. - EXPOSITORY
Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson. - EXPONENTIAL
Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation. -- Exponential equation, - ELUCIDATOR
One who explains or elucidates; an expositor. - REPRESENTATIVE
Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude. - COMMENTATORIAL
Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell. - REPRESENTATIVENESS
The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator. - SCHOLIAST
A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay. - GLOSSARY
A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words. - EXPLAINER
One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter. - SCHOLIASTIC
Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits. Swift. - ADVOCATESHIP
Office or duty of an advocate. - INTERPRETER
One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke. - COMMENTATOR
One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell. - MISINTERPRETER
One who interprets erroneously. - MISREPRESENTATIVE
Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting. - SUBADVOCATE
An under or subordinate advocate.