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: 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

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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Translate \Trans*late\, v. i.
   To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
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