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Translate

To render in another language
Translated the Korean novel into German.
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Transliterate

To represent (letters or words) in the corresponding characters of another alphabet.
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Translate

To express in different, often simpler words
Translated the technical jargon into ordinary language.
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Transliterate

(transitive) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.
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Translate

To change from one form, function, or state to another; convert or transform
Translate ideas into reality.
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Transliterate

To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters.
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Translate

To express in another medium
Translated the short story into a movie.
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Transliterate

Rewrite in a different script;
The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated
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Translate

To transfer from one place or condition to another
"His remains were translated to San Juan de Puerto Rico where they still rest" (Samuel Eliot Morison).
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Translate

To forward or retransmit (a telegraphic message).
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Translate

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

To convey to heaven without death.
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Translate

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

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

To make a translation.
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Translate

To work as a translator.
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Translate

To admit of translation
His poetry translates well.
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Translate

To be changed or transformed in effect. Often used with into or to
"Today's low inflation and steady growth in household income translate into more purchasing power" (Thomas G. Exter).
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Translate

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

(transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
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Translate

(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.
Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.
That idiom doesn’t really translate.
‘Dog’ translates as ‘chien’ in French.
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Translate

(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.
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Translate

(transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.
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Translate

(intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.
His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser.
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Translate

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

Senses relating to a change of position.
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Translate

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

To t=place in a trance, to cause to lose recollection or sense.
William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes.
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Translate

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

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome.
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Translate

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

To remove to heaven without a natural death.
By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim.
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Translate

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

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.
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.
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Translate

To change into another form; to transform.
Happy is your grace,That can translatethe stubbornness of fortuneInto so quiet and so sweet a style.
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Translate

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

To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
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Translate

To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
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Translate

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.
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Translate

Change from one form or medium into another;
Braque translated collage into oil
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Translate

Make sense of a language;
She understands French
Can you read Greek?
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Translate

Bring to a certain spiritual state
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Translate

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

Be equivalent in effect;
The growth in income translates into greater purchasing power
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Translate

Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way;
Poetry often does not translate
Tolstoy's novels translate well into English
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Translate

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
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Translate

Express, as in simple and less technical langauge;
Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?
Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?
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Translate

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