Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Designed or fitted to explain; explaining; explanatory.
- Inferential; implied; constructive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.
- adjective According to interpretation; constructive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Marked by
interpretation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective that provides interpretation
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Examples
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Indeed, Peter Gutmann isn't far off when he calls the interpretative approach "far more akin ... to hysterical passion."
Mengelberg's Mahler Patrick J. Smith 2008
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Indeed, Peter Gutmann isn't far off when he calls the interpretative approach "far more akin ... to hysterical passion."
Archive 2008-06-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008
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Bigamy is called interpretative, when, by fiction of law, a person is accounted as having had two wives, when in reality he had but one.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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A second kind, called interpretative or fictitious, was afterwards added.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Comments i object to the use of "interpretative," rather than "interpretive," in the title. otherwise, this is a fine article.
Galle on Interpretative Theory and Tax Shelter Regulation 2006
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A life that claims, like Etty Hillesum's, to 'give shelter' to God and love and suffering invites a particular kind of interpretative labour.
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The heart of the grammar is the syntax; the phonology and the semantics are purely "interpretative," in the sense that they describe the sound and the meaning of the sentences produced by the syntax but do not generate any sentences themselves.
A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics Searle, John R. 1972
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No. It’s much more interpretative, which is what music should be.
‘Harry Potter’ And ‘Twilight’ Bands Pave Road For Future Movie-Inspired Rockers » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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Also called "the commute". trishaw drivers are of the "interpretative" school of charioteering.
Kottu 2008
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"interpretative" classic aerial view over the highway we had approached on, as it tightly hugged the coastal rocks.
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