Translate

Verb1.translate - 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."
ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request"
retranslate - translate again
mistranslate - translate incorrectly
gloss - provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
latinize - translate into Latin
translate - be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
2.translate - change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
metricise, metricize - express in the metric system
diagonalise, diagonalize - transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix
3.translate - make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"
4.translate - bring to a certain spiritual state
channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport, transfer - send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
5.translate - change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
geometry - the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces
move, displace - cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
6.translate - be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
equal, be - be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"
7.translate - be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
translate, interpret, render - 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."
be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
8.translate - physics: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
move, displace - cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
9.translate - express, as in simple and less technical langauge; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"
paraphrase, rephrase, reword - express the same message in different words
10.translate - genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
ascertain, determine, find out, find - after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"

 

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