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Interpret vs Foreread - What's the difference?

interpret | foreread |

As verbs the difference between interpret and foreread

is that interpret is to explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech while foreread is to signify beforehand; predict.

As a noun foreread is

a foreword; preface.

interpret

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.
  • * The Holy Bible, (w) i. 23.
    • Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
  • * The Holy Bible, (w) xli. 8.
    • And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
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  • To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.
  • To act as an interpreter.

    • Synonyms

    * translate, explain, solve, render, expound, elucidate, decipher, unfold, unravel

    Related terms

    * interpretation * interpretative * interpreter * interpretive

    References

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    foreread

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To signify beforehand; predict.
  • *1904 , Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 34 :
    • She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
  • *1907 , Harper's magazine: Volume 114:
    • He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe, while England would remain supine, simply because Neweastle was a fool and Ormskirk would be dead.
  • To read beforehand or ahead of time.
  • *1989 , Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel :
    • I can readily imagine what Pushkin might have said to his trembling paraphrasts; but I also know how pleased and excited I would have been in 1935 had I been able to foreread this 1965 version.
  • (lb) To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
  • *1922 , James Branch Cabell, Gallantry :
    • He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A foreword; preface.