Interpretation vs Construe - What's the difference?
interpretation | construe |
(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
(uncountable) The power of explaining.
(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
(countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
(countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
(countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
To interpret or explain the meaning of something.
(grammar) To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence.
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To translate.
As nouns the difference between interpretation and construe
is that interpretation is an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction while construe is a translation.As a verb construe is
to interpret or explain the meaning of something.interpretation
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Noun
- the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
- Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''
See also
* (logic) valuationExternal links
* *construe
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Verb
(en-verb)- The world must construe''' according to its wits; this court must '''construe according to the law.
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- Thus, in a sentence such as:
(113) John considers [S Fred'' to be too sure of ''himself'']
the italicised Reflexive ''himself'' can only be construed''' with ''Fred'', not with ''John'': this follows from our assumption that non-subject Reflexives must have an antecedent within their own S. Notice, however, that in a sentence such as:
(114) ''John'' seems to me [S — to have perjured ''himself'']
''himself'' must be '''construed with ''John .