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[træns'leɪt;trɑːns-;-nz-] or [træns'let]
Definition
(verb.) change from one form or medium into another; 'Braque translated collage into oil'.
(verb.) change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation.
(verb.) determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA.
(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.'.
(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?'.
(verb.) bring to a certain spiritual state.
(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.
(verb.) be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; 'poetry often does not translate'; 'Tolstoy's novels translate well into English'.
(verb.) be equivalent in effect; 'the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power'.
Checker: Marty--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
(v. t.) To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
(v. t.) To remove to heaven without a natural death.
(v. t.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To change into another form; to transform.
(v. t.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
(v. t.) To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
(v. i.) To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. [Antiquated.] Remove, transfer, transport.[2]. Render, construe, interpret.
Editor: Vanessa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Construe, render, interpret, transfer, transform,[See ADVANTAGE]
Edited by Bonita
Definition
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.
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Examples
- So when their report puts at its head that absolute annihilation of prostitution is the ultimate ideal, we may well translate it into the real intent of the Commission. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In English, they had been under my own charge, and hard work it was to get them to translate rationally a page of _The Vicar of Wakefield_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I don't translate my own convenience into other people's duties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I will translate it if you wish, Miss Dengelton, said Crispin, by no means relishing the attention which Eunice was paying to the Greek. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She would speak in French, and Cutting would translate into English. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Reis evidently did not know how to make the vibrations of his diaphragm translate themselves into exactly commensurate and correlated electric impulses of equal rapidity, range, and quality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Take all the varying hates felt by Eustacia Vye towards the heath, and translate them into loves, and you have the heart of Clym. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Oh, I do not mind singing, said Caliphronas, going to the piano; if the words of my songs were translated, you would find them very harmless. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It was very sweet, and I'm much obliged to whoever translated it for me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Is it not the Bible of the Massachusetts language, translated by Elliot, and printed in New-England about the middle of the last century? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The principal Greek works on science had been translated into Syrian. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Franklin's letters have been translated into most of the European languages and into Latin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The delay was translated as meaning lack of confidence; and the alert infringer grew strong in courage and capital. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In translating him into the language of modern thought, we might insensibly lose the spirit of ancient philosophy. Plato. The Republic.
- They are beautiful, replied Crispin idly; I have often thought of translating some of them into English. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And, translating the word yokel for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be, that this attempt was not made by a countryman? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Women always exaggerated; and moreover she was not wholly at her ease in English, which she often spoke as if she were translating from the French. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- You see, said Crispin significantly, after translating this, he talks in parables, but you can guess his meaning; but do not be afraid. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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