Dictionary entry details
• TRANSLATE (verb)
Meaning:
Restate (words) from one language into another language
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
translate; interpret; render
Context examples:
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.
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "translate"):
retranslate (translate again)
mistranslate (translate incorrectly)
gloss (provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase)
Latinize (translate into Latin)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Change from one form or medium into another
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
translate; transform
Context example:
Braque translated collage into oil
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "translate"):
metricise; metricize (express in the metric system)
diagonalise; diagonalize (transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Make sense of a language
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
translate; understand; interpret; read
Context examples:
She understands French / Can you read Greek?
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
understand (know and comprehend the nature or meaning of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Bring to a certain spiritual state
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport (send from one person or place to another)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Domain category:
geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Be equivalent in effect
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
be; equal (be identical or equivalent to)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context examples:
poetry often does not translate / Tolstoy's novels translate well into English
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Express, as in simple and less technical language
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context examples:
Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman? / Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
paraphrase; rephrase; reword (express the same message in different words)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):
ascertain; determine; find; find out (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
