'Translate' definitions:

Definition of 'translate'

(from WordNet)
verb
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]
verb
Change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil" [syn: translate, transform]
verb
Make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: understand, read, interpret, translate]
verb
Bring to a certain spiritual state
verb
Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
verb
Be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
verb
Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
verb
Subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
verb
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?"
verb
Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

Definition of 'Translate'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

Definition of 'Translate'

From: GCIDE
  • Translate \Trans*late\, v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'translate'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Translate'