Translate vs. Transliterate

Published: 4 Sep, 2022

Translateverb

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

Transliterateverb

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

Translateverb

(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.’;

Transliterateverb

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

Translateverb

(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.’;

Transliterateverb

rewrite in a different script;

‘The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated’;

Translateverb

(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.

Translateverb

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

‘The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.’;

Translateverb

(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.’;

Translateverb

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

Translateverb

Senses relating to a change of position.

Translateverb

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

Translateverb

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.’;

Translatenoun

A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

Translateverb

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.’;

Translateverb

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

Translateverb

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.’;

Translateverb

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

Translateverb

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.’;

Translateverb

To change into another form; to transform.

‘Happy is your grace,That can translatethe stubbornness of fortuneInto so quiet and so sweet a style.’;

Translateverb

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

Translateverb

To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.

Translateverb

To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

Translateverb

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.’;

Translateverb

change from one form or medium into another;

‘Braque translated collage into oil’;

Translateverb

make sense of a language;

‘She understands French’; ‘Can you read Greek?’;

Translateverb

bring to a certain spiritual state

Translateverb

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

Translateverb

be equivalent in effect;