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translate

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..
— He translates for the U.N..

synonyms: interpret, render.

Roget 522: interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into, turn into; transfuse the sense of.    find out etc. 480.1 the meaning of, etc. ... show more

Roget 995: call, ordain, induct, prefer, translate, consecrate, present.    take orders, take the tonsure, take the veil, take vows.   

Dutch: overbrengen, overzetten

2 translate

Change from one form or medium into another:
— Braque translated collage into oil.

synonym: transform.

Dutch: overzetten

3 translate

Make sense of a language.

synonyms: interpret, read, understand.

4 translate

Bring to a certain spiritual state.

5 translate

Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation.

6 translate

Be equivalent in effect.

7 translate

Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way.

8 translate

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 translate

Express, as in simple and less technical language.

10 translate

Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA.


Moby thesaurus: English, alter, assign, carry, carry over, change, communicate, consign, construe, convert, convey, decipher, decode, deliver, deport, diffuse, dispatch, disseminate, elucidate, expel ... show more.

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