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Meaning of 'translate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Translate [ v. i.]
- To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
2 . Translate [ v. t.]
- To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
- To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
- To remove to heaven without a natural death.
- To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
- 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.
- To change into another form; to transform.
- To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
- To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.

Meaning of 'translate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . translate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- change from one form or medium into another
Example in sentence:
  • Braque translated collage into oil
Meaning (2):
- restate (words) from one language into another language
Example in sentence:
  • Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?;
  • He translates for the U.N.;
  • I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S.;
  • She rendered the French poem into English
Meaning (3):
- make sense of a language
Example in sentence:
  • Can you read Greek?;
  • She understands French
Meaning (4):
- express, as in simple and less technical language
Example in sentence:
  • Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?;
  • Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?
Meaning (5):
- be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
Example in sentence:
  • poetry often does not translate;
  • Tolstoy's novels translate well into English
Meaning (6):
- be equivalent in effect
Example in sentence:
  • the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power

Nearby Words:

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