hieroglyphic vs interpretation

hieroglyphic

noun
  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

interpretation

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

  • A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning. 

  • heritage interpretation 

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

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

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

  • An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version. 

  • The power of explaining. 

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

How often have the words hieroglyphic and interpretation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )