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interpret
UK/ɪnˈtɜːprət/US/ɪnˈtɜːrprət/in·TER·pret
to explain the meaning of something; to decide what something means
Examples
“How you interpret the results depends on your research method.”
“The judge will interpret the law in this case.”
“Her gesture could be interpreted as rudeness or as nervousness.”
Band 8 sentence
“We must be careful how we interpret correlational data; correlation does not prove causation.”
Collocations
- interpret data/results
- open to interpretation
- interpret as
Word family
Common mistakes
I interpret the report to him→I interpreted the report for him / I translated the report for him
The data interpret that...→The data suggest that... / We interpret the data as...
Say it for a higher band
5explain→6analyse→7+interpret
Synonyms
explain
Easily confused
translate
“She translated the article from Spanish into English.”
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