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INTERVIEW

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conference (usually with someone important)

Example:

he requested an audience with the king

Synonyms:

audience; consultation; interview

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("interview" is a kind of...):

conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists

Example:

my interviews with teenagers revealed a weakening of religious bonds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("interview" is a kind of...):

examination; interrogation; interrogatory (formal systematic questioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interview"):

employment interview; job interview (an interview to determine whether an applicant is suitable for a position of employment)

telephone interview (an interview conducted over the telephone)

Derivation:

interview (conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting)

interview (discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation)

interview (go for an interview in the hope of being hired)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting

Synonyms:

interview; question

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "interview" is one way to...):

converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot interview Sue

Derivation:

interview (the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists)

interviewee (a person who is interviewed)

interviewer (a person who conducts an interview)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation

Example:

We interviewed the job candidates

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "interview" is one way to...):

converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot interview Sue

Derivation:

interview (the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists)

interviewee (a person who is interviewed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Go for an interview in the hope of being hired

Example:

The job candidate interviewed everywhere

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "interview" is one way to...):

converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)

"Interview" entails doing...:

apply (ask (for something))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue interview

Derivation:

interview (the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists)

Credits

 Context examples: 

There was an interview—a short one—during which you walked up and down the room.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The person who answers the questions during an interview.

(Interviewee, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who was not smoking at the time of the interview but has smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their life.

(Former Smoker, NCI Thesaurus)

We found it hard to interview them.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

He was glad to find his friends waiting for him, and told them of his terrible interview with the Wizard.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Studies included in the meta-analysis examined parents’ thoughts and feelings about their child during pregnancy through interviews and questionnaires.

(Mother’s attitude towards baby during pregnancy may have implications for child’s development, University of Cambridge)

This version consists of 18 questions or types of psychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety, hallucinations, motor skills, or other unusual behaviors and is completed during a semi-structured interview.

(Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale A Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

This instrument consists of an interview that is given to both the patient and their caregiver by a clinician at a baseline visit and then is repeated at the 2, 6, and 12 month visits.

(Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Clinical Global Impression of Change Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

If the police interview a witness to a crime, for example, their repeated questioning about selected details might lead the witness to forget information that could later prove important.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

Then Edith went herself and interviewed Negook.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)