INTERPRETED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interpreted mean? 

• INTERPRETED (adjective)
  The adjective INTERPRETED has 1 sense:

1. understood in a certain way; made sense of

  Familiarity information: INTERPRETED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERPRETED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Understood in a certain way; made sense of

Synonyms:

interpreted; taken

Context example:

an open door interpreted as an invitation

Similar:

understood (fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation)

 Context examples 

The process by which the nature and meaning of sensory stimuli are recognized and interpreted.

(Perception, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

EXAMPLE(S): The results of a white blood cell count may be interpreted as constituting a grade 2 toxicity.

(Performed Clinical Interpretation, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

In this form of psychotherapy, symbols from the patient's verbalizations, dreams, and interactions are interpreted for meaning in their everyday lives.

(Interpretive Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Some scientists interpreted this to mean that ‘Oumuamua was a dry asteroid.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)

These images are then interpreted by a radiologist to determine the presence of several types of abnormalities of the colon.

(Computed tomography colonography, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies whether an interpreted event is abnormal.

(Performed Clinical Interpretation Abnormal Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

A qualifier used to describe the workflow progression of a laboratory observation outcome in terms of being finished, concluded, interpreted as preliminary, needed to be repeated, etc.

(Laboratory Test Result Status, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the intensity of the interpreted event.

(Performed Clinical Interpretation Severity Code, NCI Thesaurus)

Grey Beaver made mouth-noises which White Fang interpreted as not hostile, so he came still nearer.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I interpreted it as a warning of disaster.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)