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Interpretation vs Synthesize - What's the difference?

interpretation | synthesize |

As a noun interpretation

is interpretation.

As a verb synthesize is

to combine two or more things to produce a new, more complex product.

interpretation

English

Noun

  • (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
  • the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
  • (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
  • Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''
  • (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.
  • See also

    * (logic) valuation

    synthesize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * synthesise (UK)

    Verb

    (synthesiz)
  • To combine two or more things to produce a new, more complex product.
  • (of two or more things) To be combined producing a new, more complex product.
  • (chemistry) To produce a substance by chemical synthesis.
  • (intransitive, chemistry, of a substance) To be produced by chemical synthesis.
  • Derived terms

    * photosynthesize