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English

Etymology

Derived from Classical Latin translatum, past participle of transferre, from trans- “across” + ferre “to bear”

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈtɹænzleɪt/

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-translate.ogg



Verb

  1. To change text (of a book, document, Web site, movie, anime, video game etc.) from one language to another.
  2. To change from one form or medium to another.
  3. : translate experience to film
  4. To subject a body to translation, i.e., to move a body on a linear path with no rotation.


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Translations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Translate \Trans*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Translating.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of
transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See
Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.]
1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to
transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] --Dryden.
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In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show
her head- the rest of her body being translated to
Rome. --Evelyn.
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2. To change to another condition, position, place, or
office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
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3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
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By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not
see death; and was not found, because God had
translatedhim. --Heb. xi. 5.
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4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
"Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have
translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . .
refused." --Camden.
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5. 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.
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Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing
language, what he found in books well known to the
world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.
--Macaulay.
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6. To change into another form; to transform.
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Happy is your grace,
That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style. --Shak.
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7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to
another; as, to translate a disease.
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8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
[Obs.] --J. Fletcher.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Translate \Trans*late\, v. i.
To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
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WordNet translate
v 1: 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." [syn: interpret,
render]
2: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque
translated collage into oil" [syn: transform]
3: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you
read Greek?" [syn: understand, read, interpret]
4: bring to a certain spiritual state
5: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without
rotation
6: be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates
into greater purchasing power"
7: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way;
"poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels
translate well into English"
8: 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
9: 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: genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein
during its synthesis by using information on the
messenger RNA
Moby Dictionary
English , alter , assign , carry , carry over , change , communicate ,
consign , construe , convert , convey , decipher , decode , deliver ,
deport , diffuse , dispatch , disseminate , elucidate , expel , explain ,
export , extradite , forward , hand forward , hand on , hand over ,
impart , import , interpret , make over , metabolize , metamorphose ,
metaphrase , metastasize , metathesize , move , mutate , paraphrase ,
pass , pass on , pass over , pass the buck , perfuse , relay , render ,
reword , rewrite , send , ship , spell out , spread , switch , transcribe ,
transfer , transfer property , transfigure , transform , transfuse ,
transliterate , translocate , transmit , transmogrify , transmute ,
transplace , transplant , transport , transpose , transubstantiate ,
turn , turn into , turn over


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