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Deciphering vs Interpreting - What's the difference?

deciphering | interpreting |

As verbs the difference between deciphering and interpreting

is that deciphering is while interpreting is .

As nouns the difference between deciphering and interpreting

is that deciphering is decipherment while interpreting is interpretation.

deciphering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • decipherment
  • * 1862 , Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Papers Relating ...
    • The only request I have to make with regard to such persons as desire to judge for themselves is, not to test the accuracy of my decipherings by the English translations.

    interpreting

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (comparatively rare)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • interpretation
  • * 1984 , Stephen A. Erickson, Human Presence: At the Boundaries of Meaning (page 86)
    • To put these statements in the singular, of course, is to abstract — there is always a plurality of interpretings when interpretation takes place.