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Definition: Interview |
InterviewNoun1. The questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists; "my interviews with teen-agers revealed a weakening of religious bonds". 2. A conference (usually with someone important); "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king". Verb1. Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting. 2. Discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation; "We interviewed the job candidates". 3. Go for an interview in the hope of being hired; "The job candidate interviewed everywhere". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "interview" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Economics | A training practitioner may feel training is needed in an organization. To get information, he arranges a formal meeting with the person or group concerned. In preparation. . , he lists pertinent questio ns. Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | The act of asking or seeking information. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An interview is a conversation between one or several interviewers and one or several interviewees, usually for a publication or broadcast of any kind. The job of the interviewer is to ask questions. Politicians, celebrities, spokespersons and experts on certain subjects are frequently interviewed. Sometimes interviews are aborted (usually by the interviewee); one famous example is the interview of Charlton Heston by Michael Moore in the film Bowling for Columbine.Interviews can be accommodating or confrontational; in investigative journalism, it is generally expected that the interviewer makes every reasonable effort to get the answers he is looking for, whereas celebrity magazines often simply give the interviewee an opportunity for self-promotion. Jeremy Paxman once asked the same question fourteen times on the UK television programme Newsnight to the then Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard in an attempt to adduce a truthful answer.
Some interviewees require a copy of the interview text to be authorized by them before allowing the publication. In the Internet age, interviews are often conducted via e-mail, but that fact is usually not mentioned in the published interview. Questions and answers are frequently modified for printed interviews to make them more readable, and some interviews have been completely invented.
Some politicians, notably Helmut Kohl (Germany), have avoided giving interviews to the press, whereas many others consider this a necessary aspect of political campaigning.
An interview is also a meeting between applicant and person in charge of applications. Unlike interviews with politicans, for example, the power between applicants and interviewers is unbalanced; interviewers have complete control over the whole interviews and basically can choose. Because of that, sometimes sexual harasment by interviewer is often a trouble. This kind of interview occurs in school entrance, jobs and auditions.
In police station, an interview is also a conversation between policies and crime suspects. To avoid fablication by policies, in UK, interviews are audio recorded while in other countries such as Japan and the United States, they do not.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Interview."
Synonyms: InterviewSynonyms: audience (n), consultation (n), question (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conversation | Conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione; congress; (council); powwow. |
Sociality | Visiting; round of visits; call, morning call; interview; (conversation); assignation; tryst, trysting place; appointment. |
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Crosswords: Interview |
| English words defined with "interview": Alfred Charles Kinsey ♦ backgrounder ♦ employment interview ♦ go ♦ interviewer, Interviewing ♦ job interview ♦ Kinsey ♦ proceed ♦ question ♦ telephone interview, To give audience, Trysting place. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "interview": depth interview ♦ extended interview ♦ group interview ♦ Interview, Psychological ♦ Person Followup Interview. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Interview" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (interview), Danish (interview), Dutch (interview), French (interview), German (interview). |
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Screenplays | My name is Craig Schwartz and I have an interview with Dr. Lester (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) He conducted a parent teacher interview yesterday and organized a field trip to a French bread factory in Trenton (Catch Me If You Can; writing credit: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding) The interview is the most important part of the pageant (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) And I got a job interview. It's in sports (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) How much would a real interview with this dame be worth (Roman Holiday; writing credit: Ian McLellan Hunter) | |
Lyrics | A reporter stopped me for an interview ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Interview (2003) The Interview (1974) Interview (1973) Das Ehrliche Interview (1971) Interview (1971) | |
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 | A local shellfisherman gives an interview in support of the restoration work. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | "Answers correspondents' questions during a press interview today at the Sanno Hotel, Tokyo. Commenting on his five-day tour of U.S. Armed Forces in the Far East, Secretary Anderson cited their high morale and praised the spirit of inter-service cooperation". Quoted from caption released with this photograph by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 10 December 1953. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Describes the loss of Wasp, which was torpedoed on 15 September 1942, during an interview at Pearl Harbor, circa October-December 1942. Credit: NAVY. |  | The interview with the Custom-house officer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The mention of Mr. Tagg's name in the social column attracts some gentlemen of the press : Mr. Tagg gracefully submits to an interview. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | District of Columbia - our Indian allies - interview of a delegation of Indian chiefs with President Hayes, in the East Room of the White House. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Interview of Gen. Lafayette with his wife & daughters in the prison of Olmutz. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The interview for unemployment compensation. San Francisco, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Interview. Standing Elk, No. 1; Running Hog, No. 2; Little Wolf, No. 3; Col. Oelrich, No. 4; Interpreter, No. 5. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The stolen interview. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Alice James | I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The grasp, cold as it was, took away what was dreariest in the interview. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This personage, grave with an almost threatening gravity, was one of those who, even in a hurried interview, command the attention of the observer |
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Health | A written patient questionnaire may be helpful but is not a substitute for the interview. (references) | |
The diagnosis of ADHD can be made reliably using well-tested diagnostic interview methods. (references) | ||
A psychosocial examination, using an interview and questionnaire, reveals psychological factors. (references) | ||
Business | Eighty-six percent of homeowners have a balcony, terrace or garden, and 3.4 percent have been burglarized during the 12-month period preceding the interview. (references) | |
Thus, Phoenix purchased a 34% share of Finnish pharmaceutical wholesaler Tamro, and British Alliance Unichem (AU) acquired a 10% share in Anzag and a 2% share in Sanacorp, making it second in profits after Stuttgart-based Gehe AG. AU CEO Jefferey Harris confirmed in a recent interview with German economic daily “Handelsblatt” to use each and every opportunity to purchase pharmacy chains. (references) | ||
Children | Belgium | The law states that a minor "capable of understanding" can request permission to be heard by a judge, or that a judge can request an interview with a child. (references) |
Latvia | The center also has a forensic interview room where victims can be interviewed in a secure environment and their testimony directly transmitted to a courtroom. (references) | |
Iceland | However, a 1999 change in the Criminal Code made judges (instead of the police) responsible for the investigatory interview of abused children and allowed these interviews to be conducted in specially designed rooms at district courthouses. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Namibia | Government officials interview asylum seekers. (references) |
Afghanistan | Foreign male journalists were not permitted to interview women. (references) | |
Nepal | He was arrested in 1999 in connection with the publication of an interview with a Maoist leader. (references) | |
Economic History | Colombia | Currently there is a 18-month wait for an interview. (references) |
Venezuela | No service or list of potential leads can replace a visit to the country to study and interview prospects. (references) | |
Japan | On-line, Internet based, job seeking and placement services are, however, only in their infancy in Japan--constrained partly by a Ministry of Labor requirement that every employment agency must personally interview each of its clients (this requirement is currently under review). (references) | |
Human Rights | East Timor | During an April interview, dos Santos, who is 18-years-old appeared with facial injuries, claimed that she could not return because she had a baby. (references) |
Morocco | The King himself, in an August interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro, declared he wanted the truth to come out concerning the disappearance of Ben Barka. (references) | |
Chad | Miskine, according to an interview with the Interior Minister, had taken refuge in the CAR several years ago; however, this was his first known cross-border attack. (references) | |
Minorities | Iceland | In April the deputy leader of the organization was indicted for making disparaging remarks about foreigners in a newspaper interview. (references) |
France | In May 2000, the Administrative Court in Nantes ruled against immigration authorities in the case of Khaddouj Tahir, who wore a hejab (veil) during her naturalization interview. (references) | |
Romania | In March a Tirgu Mures-based NGO, Liga Pro Europa, took legal action against a local weekly that carried an interview with two persons using pseudonyms who proposed to "clean the town of Roma." The local prosecutor's office answered in a letter that no crime had been committed and refused to answer a second letter by the NGO asking for the legal grounds of that answer. (references) | |
Travel | Colombia | This interview does not guarantee the visa issuance. (references) |
Colombia | A personal interview is required and all new interviews are held at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota (which processes U.S. visas for all of Colombia). (references) | |
Women | Panama | Anecdotal evidence suggests that many women are propositioned for sexual favors at the time of their initial job interview. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. A hunter from Kew caught a distant view Of a peacefully meditative gnu, And he said: "I'll pursue, and my hands imbrue In its blood at a closer interview." But that beast did ensue and the hunter it threw O'er the top of a palm that adjacent grew; And he said as he flew: "It is well I withdrew Ere, losing my temper, I wickedly slew That really meritorious gnu." Jarn Leffer |
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Dan Rather | There are two questions there. Certainly, I'm available to interview Prime Minister Sharon or Yasser Arafat at any time. And if they happen to be listening or viewing, call me collect, I'll be there in a second. |
Madonna | Don't read the newspapers. Don't read magazines, and don't watch TV, sorry. I'll watch this interview though. |
Robert Novak | We had the first time, the only time, a prime minister of Japan gave an interview in English. It was very bad politically for him to speak English like he was kind of kowtowing to the Americans, but we did that from Tokyo. |
Ted Koppel | Tonight, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker join us to tell their side of the story in their first live television interview since leaving the PTL Ministry. |
William Shatner | Totally off the cuff. It is something that you would be very familiar with. It has been called a great interview. And that's essentially what it is. We interview each other, and the subject matter at hand, we both riff on. |
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| "Interview" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.10% of the time. "Interview" is used about 4,222 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.1% | 3,719 | 2,610 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.06% | 383 | 14,369 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.51% | 106 | 31,637 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.26% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 0.07% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,222 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "interview": come to an interview ♦ depth interview ♦ employment interview ♦ exclusive interview ♦ exit interview ♦ extended interview ♦ give smb. an interview ♦ group interview ♦ have an interview ♦ health interview survey ♦ Interview [Publication Type] ♦ interview guide ♦ job interview ♦ patterned interview ♦ statement made during an interview ♦ telephone interview ♦ termination interview. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "interview": interview-but, interview-data, interview-driven, interview-forms, interview-portraits, interview-room, interview-rooms, interview-skills, interview-type. | |
Ending with "interview": post-interview, pre-interview. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "interview"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | onderhoud (conversation). (various references) | |
Albanian | intervistë, takim (appointment, assignation, contact, encounter, engagement, gathering, meet, meeting, rendezvous, reunion, tryst), bisedë (causerie, chat, colloquy, confabulation, conversation, discourse, interlocution, talk). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقابلة صحفية, مقابلة (audience, encounter, meeting, opposition, reciprocity), حديث صحفي, جرى مقابلة مع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | интервю. (various references) | |
Chinese | 采访 (Interviewing, InterViews), 晤面 . (various references) | |
Czech | interview, rozhovor (chat, conversation, dialogue, talk), pohovor (chat). (various references) | |
Danish | interview (enquiry). (various references) | |
Dutch | interviewen, interview (enquiry). (various references) | |
Esperanto | intervjuo, intervjui. (various references) | |
Faeroese | samrøða (conference). (various references) | |
Farsi | مصاحبه کردن , مذاکره (Conference, Discussion, Talk). (various references) | |
Finnish | haastattelu, haastatella. (various references) | |
French | interview, entrevue. (various references) | |
German | Interview, unterredung (conversation, discussion, interlocution, parley, talk, talks). (various references) | |
Greek | συνέντευξη (appointment, assignation, date, rendezvous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לראין, "בב, ראיון (appointment, audience). (various references) | |
Hungarian | interjú. (various references) | |
Indonesian | wawancara. (various references) | |
Italian | intervista (enquiry). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 来談 , インタファクス通信 (indirect, induction, industrial, industrial design, industrial designer, industrial engineering, industry, interaction, interactive, interest, interface, Interfax news agency, interpret, interpreter, interpretive, interrupt, interviewer), インターン制度 (intercept, internship system, interval, interviewer), 口"試問 (oral examination), 口 試問 (oral examination), 問診 (history taking), 引接 , 引見 (audience), 会見 (audience), 会談 (conference, conversation, discussion), 対面 (meeting), 往訪 (visit), 試問 (examination, question), 接見 , パ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "pu", heal, heap, hear, hearing, heat, heat pipe, heat pump, heater, heel, heel out, hero, hero package, hymen, listening comprehension, public hearing), 'ドロ シ類 (CHI, close call, fuse, fuse cock, HE, hearing, heuristic, Hewlett, Hewlett Packard, Hilbert, hill, hill climb, hillbilly music, Himalaya, Houston, HP, HR, human, human assessment, human document, human ecology, human engineering, human interest, human interface, human relations, humanism, humanist, humanistic, humanity, humanization, humanlike, humanoid, hut, hydrozoan, hypochondria, listening comprehension, near miss, public hearing), 目見え (stage debut), 面会 , 面接 , 面接 , 面接試" (oral examination), 面談 , 会談 (conference, conversation, discussion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | い"け" (appearance and disappearance, audience, treacherous, tricky, wily), インタヴュー , インタ"ュ , インタ"ュー , らい ", めみえ (stage debut), め" ", め"かい, め"せつ, も"し" (history taking), "うとうしも" (oral examination), たいめ" (appearances, dignity, honour, meeting, prestige, reputation), い"せつ, かい " (Buddhist ordination platform, conference, conversation, disbandment, discussion, ghost story, stairs), かいけ" (audience, constitutional change, dagger), せっけ" (conquering, economy, invading, soap, sweeping conquest, sweeping over, thrift), しも" (city gate, enquiry, examination, fingerprint, question, tutelage), 'アリング (hearing, listening comprehension, public hearing), 'ヤリング (hearing, listening comprehension, public hearing), おうほう (retribution, royal decree, visit), め"せつしけ" (oral examination). (various references) | |
Korean | 면 시험 (InterViews). (various references) | |
Manx | quaaltys, co-yeeaghyn. (various references) | |
Norwegian | intervjue, intervju, samtale (conversation). (various references) | |
Papiamen | entrevistá, entrevista. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intervieway.(various references) | |
Polish | wywiad. (various references) | |
Portuguese | entrevista (appointment, conference, tryst), entrevistar. (various references) | |
Romanian | interviu, lua o interviu, avea o întrevedere cu, întrevedere (meeting). (various references) | |
Russian | встреча (get together, meeting, parley, reception, reunion), опрашивать интервью, интервью, деловое свидание. (various references) | |
Scottish | còmhdhail (a meeting, meeting). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | intervjuisati, intervju, razgovor (chat, colloquy, conversation, talk). (various references) | |
Spanish | interrogatorio (examination, interrogation, interrogatory, questioning, quiz), tomar entrevista, toma de entrevista, la entrevista, entrevistarse con, entrevistar, entrevista (conversation, foreword, meeting). (various references) | |
Swedish | intervjua, intervju. (various references) | |
Turkish | röportaj yapmak, röportaj (reportage), mülâkat, görüşmek (approach, argue, canvass, confer, consult, contact, discuss, get into touch, have a talk with, keep in touch, meet, negotiate, parley, powwow, reason, see, talk), görüşme (bargaining, conference, conversation, debate, discussion, disputation, hearing, intercourse, meeting, negotiation, parley, rap, talk). (various references) | |
Turkmen | interwяu (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інтерв'ювати, інтерв'ю, особисто зустрітися, ділове побачення. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự gặp mặt, sự gặp gỡ (contact, encounter), cuộc nói chuyện riêng cuộc phỏng vấn, b i phỏng vấn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | congressione. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "interview": interviewed, interviewee, interviewees, interviewer, interviewers, interviewing, interviews. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "interview": preinterview, reinterview. (additional references) | |
Words containing "interview": preinterviewed, preinterviewing, preinterviews, reinterviewed, reinterviewing, reinterviews. (additional references) | |
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"Interview" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inservire, interie, intervien, intervierw, interviue, iterview. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "interview" (pronounced i"ntervyuw' or i"nervyuw') |
| 4 | -er v y uw' | overview. |
| 3 | -v y uw' | preview, purview. |
| 4 | -er v y uw' | overview. |
| 3 | -v y uw' | preview, purview. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-n-r-t-v-w" | |
-1 letter: reinvite. | |
-2 letters: invitee, inviter, niterie, twinier, veinier, viewier, vitrine. | |
-3 letters: entire, envier, invert, invite, retine, review, tinier, triene, twiner, veiner, venire, venter, verite, viewer, vinier, weiner, wiener, wienie, winier, winter, wivern. | |
-4 letters: enter, event, evert, evite, inert, inter, nerve, never, newer, newie, nieve, niter, nitre, reive, renew, rente, retie, revet, rewet, rewin, riven, rivet. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-n-r-t-v-w" | |
+1 letter: interviews. | |
+2 letters: interviewed, interviewee, interviewer, reinterview. | |
+3 letters: interviewees, interviewers, interviewing, interweaving, preinterview, reinterviews. | |
+4 letters: overweighting, overwintering, preinterviews, reinterviewed. | |
+5 letters: preinterviewed, reinterviewing. | |
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