What is the meaning of translate?

verb

  • Restate (words) from one language into another language.
    • usage: "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."
  • Change from one form or medium into another.
    • usage: "Braque translated collage into oil"
  • Make sense of a language.
    • usage: "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek"
  • Bring to a certain spiritual state.
  • Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation.
  • Be equivalent in effect.
    • usage: "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
  • Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way.
    • usage: "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
  • Subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body.
  • Express, as in simple and less technical language.
    • usage: "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks"
  • Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA. .
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