Transit vs. Translate

the carrying of people or things from one place to another

To render in another language

the action of passing through or across a place

To express in different, often simpler words

pass across or through (an area)

To change from one form, function, or state to another; convert or transform

The act of passing over, across, or through; passage.

To express in another medium

Conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a local public transportation system.

To transfer from one place or condition to another

The system or vehicles used for such conveyance.

To forward or retransmit (a telegraphic message).

A transition or change, as to a spiritual existence at death.

(Ecclesiastical) To transfer (a bishop) to another see.

The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian.

To convey to heaven without death.

The passage of a smaller celestial body or its shadow across the disk of a larger celestial body.

(Physics) To subject (a body) to translation.

A surveying instrument similar to a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.

(Biology) To subject (messenger RNA) to translation.

To pass over, across, or through

To make a translation.

(Astronomy) To make a transit across (a celestial body as perceived by an observer), as a planet passing between the sun and Earth.

To work as a translator.

To revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction.

To admit of translation

To make a transit.

To be changed or transformed in effect. Often used with into or to

The act of passing over, across, or through something.

Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.

(transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.

(astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.

(intransitive) To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.

A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.

(transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.

(navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.

(transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another.

(British) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.

(intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.

(North America) Public transport system.

To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.

To pass over, across or through something.

Senses relating to a change of position.

To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.

To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.

To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.

To t=place in a trance, to cause to lose recollection or sense.

To make a transit.

(analysis) In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

(Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

The act of passing; passage through or over.

To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.

The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

To remove to heaven without a natural death.

A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.

To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.

The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.

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.

An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; - called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.

To change into another form; to transform.

To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.

a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.

a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

a journey usually by ship;

restate (words) from one language into another language;

make a passage or journey from one place to another

change from one form or medium into another;

pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place);

make sense of a language;

revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction

bring to a certain spiritual state

cause or enable to pass through;

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

be equivalent in effect;

be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way;

physics: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body

express, as in simple and less technical langauge;

genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA