Translate - Definition

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: translate,
interpret, render]
2: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque
translated collage into oil" [syn: translate, transform]
3: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you
read Greek?" [syn: understand, read, interpret,
translate]
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: 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 language; "Can you
translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is
there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"
10: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its
synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA