Associations to the word «Translate»

Wiktionary

TRANSLATE, verb. (transitive) To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another.
TRANSLATE, verb. (intransitive) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language.
TRANSLATE, verb. (transitive) To change from one form or medium to another.
TRANSLATE, verb. (intransitive) To change from one form or medium to another.
TRANSLATE, verb. (transitive) (physics) To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation.
TRANSLATE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) To transfer, to move from one place or position to another.
TRANSLATE, verb. (transitive) (Christianity) To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
TRANSLATE, verb. (transitive) (Christianity) To transfer a bishop from one see to another.
TRANSLATE, verb. (transitive) (Christianity) To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death.
TRANSLATE, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection.
TRANSLATE, verb. (transitive) (music) To rearrange a song from one genre to another.
TRANSLATE, verb. (medicine) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.
TRANSLATE, verb. (genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
TRANSLATE, noun. (analysis) (in Euclidean spaces) A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

Dictionary definition

TRANSLATE, 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.".
TRANSLATE, verb. Change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil".
TRANSLATE, verb. Make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?".
TRANSLATE, verb. Bring to a certain spiritual state.
TRANSLATE, verb. Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation.
TRANSLATE, verb. Be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power".
TRANSLATE, verb. Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English".
TRANSLATE, 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.
TRANSLATE, 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?".
TRANSLATE, verb. Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA.

Wise words

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams