understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"

be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand, misinterpret - interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks"

read between the lines - read what is implied but not expressed on the surface

mythicise, mythicize - interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology; "mythicize the ancient stories"

literalise, literalize - make literal; "literalize metaphors"

spiritualise, spiritualize - give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense

reinterpret - assign a new or different meaning to

allegorise, allegorize - interpret as an allegory

read, take - interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!"

read - interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"

read, scan - obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"

consider, regard, view, reckon, see - deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

educe, elicit, evoke, extract, draw out - deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

moralise, moralize - interpret the moral meaning of; "moralize a story"

deconstruct - interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing

re-explain, reinterpret - interpret from a different viewpoint

commentate - serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting

misinterpret - interpret falsely

explain, explicate - make palin and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students"

annotate, gloss, comment - provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written"

commentate - make a commentary on

performing arts - arts or skills that require public performance

perform, do, execute - carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"

sing - deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols"

artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"

re-create - create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale"

carnalize, sensualize - represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture

silhouette - represent by a silhouette

animalise, animalize - represent in the form of an animal

profile - represent in profile, by drawing or painting

paint - make a painting of; "He painted his mistress many times"

capture - succeed in representing or expressing something intangible; "capture the essence of Spring"; "capture an idea"

depict, picture, show, render - show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"

stylise, stylize, conventionalize - represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head"

map - make a map of; show or establish the features of details of; "map the surface of Venus"

limn, portray, depict - make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba"

portray, present - represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally; "The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting"

draw - represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse"

mock up, model - construct a model of; "model an airplane"

graph, chart - represent by means of a graph; "chart the data"

ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request"

retranslate - translate again

mistranslate - translate incorrectly

gloss - provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase

latinize - translate into Latin

translate - be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"

understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"