interpreter

Someone who changes spoken words or sign language into another language so people can understand each other.

• We need an interpreter at the meeting.
• The interpreter translated her answer into French.
• A sign language interpreter stood beside the speaker.

Common phrases: sign language interpreter, work as interpreter, interpreter for someone

A computer program that reads and runs code directly, without first turning the whole program into another form.

• The interpreter runs this code.
• Open the Python interpreter and enter a command.
• These scripts need an interpreter to work.

Common phrases: python interpreter, command interpreter, run an interpreter

Someone or something that explains what a dream, text, event, or other thing means.

• She is an interpreter of dreams.
• The critic became an influential interpreter of the poem.
• Different interpreters gave the symbol different meanings.

How to use it: interpreter of something (He is a careful interpreter of religious texts.)

Similar words: explainer

Common phrases: interpreter of dreams, interpreter of something, skilled interpreter