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Reinterpret

Definitions: Reinterpret

Reinterpret

Verb

1. Interpret from a different viewpoint.

2. Assign a new or different meaning to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Reinterpret

Synonym: re-explain (v). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Reinterpret

"Reinterpret" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "Reinterpret" is used about 30 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)73.33%2274,468
Lexical Verb (base form)26.67%8124,375
                    Total100.00%30N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reinterpret

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

reinterpret

8

cast cast reinterpret static

5

cast reinterpret

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reinterpret

Language Translations for "reinterpret"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

重新解释 (redefine, redefinition, reinterpretation). (various references)

   

German

  

neu übersetzen (recompile, to recompile, to reinterpret). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

einterpretray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Reinterpret

Derivations

Words beginning with "reinterpret": reinterpretation, reinterpretations, reinterpreted, reinterpreting, reinterprets. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reinterpret"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "reinterpret" (pronounced rē'i'nter"prut)
8-i' n t er" p r u tinterpret.
4-p r u tculprit, desperate, noncorporate, temperate.
3-r u tberet, carat, carrot, curate, demerit, elaborate, ferret, garret, inherit, invertebrate, karat, merit, parrot, pirate, portrait, secret, spirit, supersecret.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reinterpret

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: interpreter.

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-r-t-t"

-2 letters: interpret, preterite, reprinter.

-3 letters: preterit, prettier, repenter.

-4 letters: enterer, nettier, pettier, preener, preteen, printer, reenter, reinter, rentier, repiner, reprint, retiree, retirer, ripener, teenier, tentier, terpene, terreen, terrene, terrier, terrine.

-5 letters: eerier, entire, entree, eterne, netter, peerie, perter, petite, petter, pterin, renter, repent, repine, retene, retine, retint, retire, ritter, teener, teeter, tenter, tentie, terete, terret.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: interpreters, reinterprets.

 

+2 letters: preretirement, reinterpreted.

 

+3 letters: preretirements, reinterpreting.

 

+4 letters: retroperitoneal.

 

+5 letters: photointerpreter, reinterpretation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reinterpret


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 69 6E 74 65 72 70 72 65 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#105 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#112 &#114 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0069 006E 0074 0065 0072 0070 0072 0065 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5271758086718482847186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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