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• v  make sense of; assign a meaning to
• v  give an interpretation or explanation to
• v  give an interpretation or rendition of
• v  create an image or likeness of
• v  restate (words) from one language into another language
• v  make sense of a language
• s  understood in a certain way; made sense of
  an open door interpreted as an invitation

• His first name could be interpreted, prophetically, as "troublemaker.
• Republicans believe it can be interpreted that way, but Democrats don't.
• Samples of dog noises were collected, interpreted by animal behaviorists and stored in a doggie database.

• interpret
• construe
• see
• rede
• render
• represent
• translate
• understand
• read
• taken

News & Articles

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• College Park man wanted in connection with murder investigation found
  Orlando police have made a second arrest in the death of a College Park man. WFTV reporter Renee Stoll was there when Xin Liu was arrested Wednesday night.        While Liu was in the cruiser, he made an odd comment to police just before they drove off to jail: "Are we going to turn the lights on?" "I don't think that the way he behaved or his mannerisms should be interpreted or misconstrued in ...
  June 13, 2013 - WFTV 9 Orlando
• Stop the Official Lies by Revealing Secret Court Rulings
  The U.S. has forsworn secret prisons. But we have reams of secret laws for our secret intelligence agencies, interpreted by a secret court that hands down secret rulings.
  June 12, 2013 - Bloomberg
• Jindal backs limits on alternative fuel tax credit
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law a rewrite of the state's alternative fuel vehicle tax credit program. Baton Rouge Sen. Dan Claitor submitted the bill, addressing concerns that the program could be interpreted in a way that would balloon its costs. Provisions in the bill match regulations already adopted by the Jindal administration. Claitor said he wanted the law to ...
  June 12, 2013 - KATC 3 Lafayette

Quotes

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• Randy Neugebauer in Los Angeles Times (blog)
  In a statement Neugebauer said that although he remains "heartbroken" about passage of the bill, "I deeply regret that my actions were mistakenly interpreted as a direct reference" to Stupak.
• Jacques Rogge in Reuters
  I understand the joy. He might have interpreted that in another way but the way it was perceived is 'catch me if you can'. You don't do that,said Rogge, who participated in three Olympics from 1968 to 1976 in yachting.
• Elvis Costello in Jewish Chronicle
  Among the first performers to join the cultural boycott was Elvis Costello, who said that "merely having your name added to a concert may be interpreted as a political act...... it may be assumed that one has no mind for the suffering of the...