interpreter

IPA: ɪntˈɝprʌtɝ

A person who interprets.
A person who converts spoken or signed language into a different language for the benefit of one or more others who do not understand the first language being used (especially if in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating). (Contrasted with translator.)
A guide who helps people visiting an attraction such as an art exhibit, a nature reserve, etc., understand what they are seeing.
(figuratively) Something that reveals or clarifies.
(computing) A program that executes another program written in a high-level language by reading the instructions in real time rather than by compiling it in advance.

Examples of "interpreter" in Sentences

The Python interactive interpreter is a lower-level interface to playsh.
The use of an interpreter is needed to communicate and there is always something lost along those lines.
And Salon has reprinted a post from Iraqi blogger Riverbend about Alan Ghazi, the slain interpreter who worked with Carroll:
Lt. Hinh allegedly worked didn't exist at the time and location cited by the source, thus the existence of the interpreter is moot.
One critic, Stanley Fish, has said that his goal as an interpreter is not to find ‘the truth,’ but to be as interesting as possible.
After sitting down in a restaurant in southern Delhi, we called the interpreter to explain that we wanted a wheat-free recommendation from the waiter.
In other words, the interpreter is not permitted to go up to the election officials and inform them that she intends to go into the booth and help the voter.
On Aug. 12, the wire services reported fighting near the Pakistani border and the death of three U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter from a roadside bomb.
Of course, having an interpreter is also good, but the interpreted words may lack the vital ingredient because you do not feel the emotion accompanied by these words being passed.