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VERB (10)

1. restate (words) from one language into another language;
- Example: "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."
- Example: "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"
- Example: "She rendered the French poem into English"
- Example: "He translates for the U.N."
[syn: translate, interpret, render]

2. change from one form or medium into another;
- Example: "Braque translated collage into oil"
[syn: translate, transform]

3. make sense of a language;
- Example: "She understands French"
- Example: "Can you read Greek?"
[syn: understand, read, interpret, translate]

4. bring to a certain spiritual state;

5. change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation;

6. be equivalent in effect;
- Example: "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

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

8. subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body;

9. express, as in simple and less technical language;
- Example: "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"
- Example: "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"

10. determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Translate \Trans*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.] 1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster] 2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death. [1913 Webster] 3. To remove to heaven without a natural death. [1913 Webster] By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim. --Heb. xi. 5. [1913 Webster] 4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." --Camden. [1913 Webster] 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words. [1913 Webster] Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 6. To change into another form; to transform. [1913 Webster] Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease. [1913 Webster] 8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.] --J. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Translate \Trans*late\, v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

translate v 1: restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N." [syn: translate, interpret, render] 2: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil" [syn: translate, transform] 3: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: understand, read, interpret, translate] 4: bring to a certain spiritual state 5: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation 6: be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power" 7: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English" 8: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body 9: express, as in simple and less technical language; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?" 10: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA