to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
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to change the form, condition, nature, etc., of; transform; convert: to translate wishes into deeds.
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to explain in terms that can be more easily understood; interpret.
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to bear, carry, or move from one place, position, etc., to another; transfer.
5.
Mechanics. to cause (a body) to move without rotation or angular displacement; subject to translation.
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Computers. to convert (a program, data, code, etc.) from one form to another: to translate a FORTRAN program into assembly language.
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Telegraphy. to retransmit or forward (a message), as by a relay.
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Ecclesiastical.
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to move (a bishop) from one see to another.
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to move (a see) from one place to another.
c.
to move (relics) from one place to another.
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to convey or remove to heaven without natural death.
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Mathematics. to perform a translation on (a set, function, etc.).
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to express the value of (a currency) in a foreign currency by applying the exchange rate.
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to exalt in spiritual or emotional ecstasy; enrapture.
–verb (used without object)
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to provide or make a translation; act as translator.
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to admit of translation: The Greek expression does not translate easily into English.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME translaten < L trānslātus (ptp. of trānsferre to transfer), equiv. to trāns-trans-+ -lātus (suppletive ptp. of ferre to bear1), earlier *tlātus, equiv. to *tlā- bear (akin to thole2) + -tus ptp. suffix]
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v.
trans·lat·ed, trans·lat·ing, trans·lates
v.
tr.
To render in another language.
To put into simpler terms; explain or interpret.
To express in different words; paraphrase.
To change from one form, function, or state to another; convert or transform: translate ideas into reality.
To express in another medium.
Ecclesiastical To transfer (a bishop) to another see.
To convey to heaven without death.
To change from one form, function, or state to another; convert or transform: translate ideas into reality.
To express in another medium.
Ecclesiastical To transfer (a bishop) to another see.
To convey to heaven without death.
To transfer from one place or condition to another.
To forward or retransmit (a telegraphic message).
Ecclesiastical To transfer (a bishop) to another see.
To convey to heaven without death.
Physics To subject (a body) to translation.
Biology To subject (messenger RNA) to translation.
Archaic To enrapture.
v.
intr.
To make a translation.
To work as a translator.
To admit of translation.
To be changed or transformed in effect. Often used with into or to: "Today's low inflation and steady growth in household income translate into more purchasing power"(Thomas G. Exter).
[Middle English translaten, from Old French translater, from Latin trānslātus, past participle of trānsferre, to transfer : trāns-, trans- + lātus, brought; see telə- in Indo-European roots.]
c.1300, "to remove from one place to another," also "to turn from one language to another," from L. translatus "carried over," serving as pp. of transferre "to bring over, carry over" (see transfer), from trans- + latus "borne, carried," from *tlatos, from PIE base *tel-, *tol- "to bear, carry" (see extol). A similar notion is behind the O.E. word it replaced, awendan, from wendan "to turn, direct" (see wend). Translation "work turned from one language to another" is attested from c.1340.
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."
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change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"
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make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: understand]
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bring to a certain spiritual state
5.
change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
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be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
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be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
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subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
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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?"
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determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
Tol"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tolerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tolerating.] [L. toleratus, p. p. of tolerare, fr. the same root as tollere to lift up, tuli, used as perfect of ferre to bear, latus (for tlatus), used as p. p. of ferre to bear, and E. thole. See Thole, and cf. Atlas, Collation, Delay, Elate, Extol, Legislate, Oblate, Prelate, Relate, Superlative, Talent, Toll to take away, Translate.] To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices. Crying should not be tolerated in children. --Locke. We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration. --Burke. Syn: See Permit.
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. In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome. --Evelyn. 2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death. 3. 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 translatedhim. --Heb. xi. 5. 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. 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. 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. 6. To change into another form; to transform. Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. --Shak. 7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease. 8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.] --J. Fletcher.
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