Comprehension vs. Interpretation — What's the Difference?

The act or fact of grasping the meaning, nature, or importance of; understanding.

The act or process of interpreting.

The knowledge that is acquired in this way.

A result of interpreting.

Capacity to include; comprehensiveness.

An explanation or conceptualization by a critic of a work of literature, painting, music, or other art form; an exegesis.

(Logic) The sum of meanings and corresponding implications inherent in a term.

A performer's distinctive personal version of a song, dance, piece of music, or role; a rendering.

Thorough understanding.

(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.

(logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.

(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.

(programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages.

The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).

(Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.

(uncountable) The power of explaining.

The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.

(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.

(countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.

An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.

The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.

An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.

A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.

Heritage interpretation

An ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result);

The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.

The relation of comprising something;

The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

The power or explaining.

An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

The act or process of applying general principles or formulæ to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

The act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance;

An explanation that results from interpreting something;

An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious;