Definitions for translate
trænsˈleɪt, trænz-, ˈtræns leɪt, ˈtrænz-trans·late

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. translate, interpret, renderverb

   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. translate, transformverb

   change from one form or medium into another

   "Braque translated collage into oil"

3. understand, read, interpret, translateverb

   make sense of a language

   "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

4. translateverb

   bring to a certain spiritual state

5. translateverb

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

6. translateverb

   be equivalent in effect

   "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

7. translateverb

   be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way

   "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"

8. translateverb

   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. translateverb

   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. translateverb

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

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1. translatenoun

   A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

2. translateverb

   To change text (of a book, document, Web site, movie, anime, video game etc.) from one language to another.

   Hans diligently translated the novel from German into English.

3. translateverb

   To have a translation into another language.

4. translateverb

   To change from one form or medium to another.

   The renowned director could translate experience to film with ease.

5. translateverb

   To change from one form to another.

6. translateverb

   To subject (a body) to translation, i.e., to move a body on a linear path with no rotation.

7. translateverb

   To move or carry from one place or position to another; to transfer.

   The monk translated the holy relics to their new shrine.

8. translateverb

   To remove to heaven without a natural death.

   By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him. Heb. xi. 5.

9. translateverb

   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.

10. translateverb

    To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.

    William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes.

11. translateverb

    To rearrange a song from music genre to another.

12. Etymology: translaten from Classical Latin translatus, past participle of transferre, from trans- “across” + latus, "borne", "carried", irregular perfect passive participle of verb ferre “to bear”. Displaced native awenden (from awendan), irecchen (from gereccan), and geþeodan.

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1. To Translateverb

   Etymology: translatus, Lat.

   1. To transport; to remove.

   Since our father is translated unto the gods, our will is that they that are in our realm live quietly. 2 Mac. xi. 23.

   By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death. Heb. xi. 5.

   Those argent fields
   Translated saints or middle spirits hold. John Milton.

   Of the same soil their nursery prepare
   With that of their plantation, lest the tree
   Translated should not with the soil agree. Dryden.

   The gods their shapes to winter birds translate,
   But both obnoxious to their former fate. Dryden.

   To go to heaven is to be translated to that kingdom you have longed for; to enjoy the glories of eternity. William Wake.

   2. It is particularly used of the removal of a bishop from one see to another.

   Fisher, bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishoprick to a better, he refused, saying, he would not forsake his poor little old wife, with whom he had so long lived. William Camden, Remains.

   3. To transfer from one to another; to convey.

   I will translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David. 2 Sam. iii. 10.

   Because of unrighteous dealings the kingdom is translated from one people to another. Ecclus. x. 8.

   Lucian affirms the souls of usurers, after their death, to be metempsychosed, or translated into the bodies of asses, there to remain for poor men to take their pennyworths out of their bones and sides with the cudgel and spur. Henry Peacham.

   As there are apoplexies from inveterate gouts, the regimen must be to translate the morbifick matter upon the extremities of the body. Arbuthnot.

   Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free,
   Charge all their woes on absolute decree;
   All to the dooming gods their guilt translate,
   And follies are miscall’d the crimes of fate. Alexander Pope.

   4. To change.

   One do I personate of Timon’s frame,
   Whom fortune with her iv’ry hand wafts to her,
   Whose present grace to present slaves and servants
   Translates his rivals. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.

   Happy is your grace,
   That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
   Into so quiet and so sweet a style. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   5. [ Translater, old Fr.] To interpret in another language; to change into another language retaining the sense.

   I can construe the action of her familiar stile, and the hardest voice of her behaviour, to be englished right, is, I am Sir John Falstaff’s.
   —— He hath studied her well, and translated her out of honesty into English. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

   Nor word for word too faithfully translate. Wentworth Dillon.

   Read this ere you translate one bit
   Of books of high renown. Jonathan Swift.

   Were it meant that in despite
   Of art and nature such dull clods should write,
   Bavius and Mævius had been sav’d by fate
   For Settle and for Shadwell to translate. Richard Duke.

   6. To explain. A low colloquial use.

   There’s matter in these sighs, these profound heaves
   You must translate; ’tis fit we understand them. William Shakespeare.

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1. translate

   Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or signed communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community. A translator always risks inadvertently introducing source-language words, grammar, or syntax into the target-language rendering. On the other hand, such "spill-overs" have sometimes imported useful source-language calques and loanwords that have enriched target languages. Translators, including early translators of sacred texts, have helped shape the very languages into which they have translated.Because of the laboriousness of the translation process, since the 1940s efforts have been made, with varying degrees of success, to automate translation or to mechanically aid the human translator. More recently, the rise of the Internet has fostered a world-wide market for translation services and has facilitated "language localisation".

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1. Translateverb

   to bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree

2. Translateverb

   to change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death

3. Translateverb

   to remove to heaven without a natural death

4. Translateverb

   to remove, as a bishop, from one see to another

5. Translateverb

   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. Translateverb

   to change into another form; to transform

7. Translateverb

   to cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease

8. Translateverb

   to cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance

9. Translateverb

   to make a translation; to be engaged in translation

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1. Translate

   Translate is an album by Sexy Sadie, released in 2006.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Translate

   trans-lāt′, v.t. to remove to another place: to render into another language: to explain: to transfer from one office to another: to transform.—adj. Translā′table, capable of being translated or rendered into another language.—n. Translā′tion, the act of translating: removal to another place: the rendering into another language: a version: (slang) the process of working up new things from old materials: motion free from rotation: the automatic retransmission of a telegraphic message.—adjs. Translā′tional, Trans′lātory.—n. Translā′tor:—fem. Translā′tress. [Fr.,—L. trans, over, ferre, latum, to carry.]

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1. translate

   To use the accurate and exact definition and meaning of a specific text or document of a language of a specific country and change it into the accurate and exact definition and meaning of a specific text or document of the language of a specific country using the ability and power of the mind or a form of software or technology.

   They had to translate the company policies into an international language so chose to use an online translation software to do so.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 4, 2020  

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   Rank popularity for the word 'translate' in Verbs Frequency: #686

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of translate in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of translate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of translate in a Sentence

1. Miguel Angel Rojas:

   We are worried about all that knowledge that he has in his little head, every day he wants to know more and more. So we need to help him with that, for example, we need someone who can translate what he writes or speaks in English, Arabic or Russian. Someone who can clear the many doubts he has.

2. Steve Kircher:

   Having literally grown up in the ski industry, I can tell you that age of equipment generally does not translate into higher risk. There are lifts operating successfully all over the world that are considerably older than King Pine. I've also been around long enough to know that new lifts can have mechanical issues.

3. Jeff Horowitz:

   It's not for the faint of heart, you need to have a flexible risk needle. The old school attitude of compliance being Doctor No really doesn't translate well to this industry.

4. Catherine Haddon:

   Philip's death really is the beginning of the end of an era. It is a story that reminds us The Queen is a person, not just an institution, the irony is that The Queen younger relatives have to date been little more than personalities, and it's not clear how well that will translate into becoming heads of the monarchy.

5. African American:

   African American men may be involved with more blue collar type jobs, but those types may not translate to moderate to vigorous physical activity or be captured by the physical activity measures used in the study.

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