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1. (v.t.) translate
to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own.
2. translate
to change the form, condition, or nature of; convert:
to translate thought into action.
3. translate
to explain in terms that can be more easily understood; interpret.
4. translate
to bear, carry, or move from one place or position to another; transfer.
5. translate
to cause (a body) to move without rotation or angular displacement.
6. translate
to retransmit or forward (a telegraphic message), as by a relay.
7. translate
to move (a bishop) from one see to another.
8. translate
to convey or remove to heaven without natural death.
9. translate
to exalt in spiritual or emotional ecstasy.
10. translate
to cause to undergo genetic translation.
11. (v.i.) translate
to provide or make a translation; act as translator.
12. translate
to admit of translation.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME < L trānslātus, ptp. of trānsferre to transfer)
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| Definition of 'translate' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) translate, interpret, render
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."
2. (verb) translate, transform
change from one form or medium into another
"Braque translated collage into oil"
3. (verb) understand, read, interpret, translate
make sense of a language
"She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
4. (verb) translate
bring to a certain spiritual state
5. (verb) translate
change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
6. (verb) translate
be equivalent in effect
"the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
7. (verb) translate
be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
"poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
8. (verb) translate
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. (verb) translate
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. (verb) translate
determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
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1. (verb) translate
to change words from one language to another
Could you translate this letter into English for me?; I'll translate what she said for you.
2. translate
to become sth
positive comments from customers which we hope will translate into more sales
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| Definition of 'translate' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) translate
to bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree
2. (verb) translate
to change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death
3. (verb) translate
to remove to heaven without a natural death
4. (verb) translate
to remove, as a bishop, from one see to another
5. (verb) translate
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
6. (verb) translate
to change into another form; to transform
7. (verb) translate
to cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease
8. (verb) translate
to cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance
9. (verb) translate
to make a translation; to be engaged in translation
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Sense: to put (something said or written) into another language
He translated the book from French into English.
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 Afrikaans: vertaal |
 Arabic: يُتَرْجِم |
 Bulgarian: превеждам |
 Brazilian: traduzir |
 Czech: přeložit |
 German: übersetzen |
 Danish: oversætte |
 Greek: μεταφράζω |
 Spanish: traducir |
 Estonian: tõlkima |
 Farsi: ترجمه کردن |
 Finnish: kääntää |
 French: traduire |
 Hebrew: לְתַרגֵם |
 Hindi: अनुवाद करना |
 Croatian: prevesti |
 Hungarian: (le)fordít |
 Indonesian: menerjemahkan |
 Icelandic: þÿða |
 Italian: tradurre |
 Japanese: 翻訳する |
 Korean: 번역하다 |
 Lithuanian: versti |
 Latvian: []tulkot |
 Malay: menterjemah |
 Dutch: vertalen |
 Norwegian: oversette |
 Polish: tłumaczyć, przekładać |
 Persian: ترجمه کردن |
 Pashto: ژباړل |
 Portuguese: traduzir |
 Romanian: a traduce |
 Russian: переводить |
 Slovak: preložiť |
 Slovenian: prevesti |
 Serbian: prevesti |
 Swedish: översätta |
 Thai: แปล |
 Turkish: çevirmek |
 Taiwanese: 翻譯(包括口、筆譯) |
 Ukrainian: перекладати |
 Urdu: ترجمہ کرنا |
 Vietnamese: dịch |
 Chinese: 翻译（包括口、笔译） |
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