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TRANSLATE

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English dictionary: Word overview

TRANSLATE (verb)
  The verb TRANSLATE has 10 senses:

1. restate (words) from one language into another language
2. change from one form or medium into another
3. make sense of a language
4. bring to a certain spiritual state
5. change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
6. be equivalent in effect
7. be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
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
10. determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

  Familiarity information: TRANSLATE used as a verb is familiar.


English dictionary: Word details


TRANSLATE (verb)


Sense 1translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 2translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 3translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 4translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 5translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 6translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 7translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 8translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 9translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 10translate [BACK TO TOP]

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


English Proverbs
"If words could only speak, they'd mean even less."
(English proverb)
"A tilted load won’t reach its destination."
(Afghanistan proverb)
"You can't escape from destiny."
(Armenian proverb)
"Many hands make light work."
(Dutch proverb)


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