| Verb | 1. | 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."gloss - provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase 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" | |
| 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 | |
| 5. | translate - change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotationgeometry - 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 bodymove, 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?" | |
| 10. | translate - genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNAascertain, 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" | |