Translate vs. Transliterate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Translate and Transliterate
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Translate
To render in another language
Translated the Korean novel into German.
Transliterate
To represent (letters or words) in the corresponding characters of another alphabet.
Translate
To express in different, often simpler words
Translated the technical jargon into ordinary language.
Transliterate
(transitive) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.
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.
Translate
To express in another medium
Translated the short story into a movie.
Transliterate
Rewrite in a different script;
The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated
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).
Translate
To forward or retransmit (a telegraphic message).
Translate
(Ecclesiastical) To transfer (a bishop) to another see.
Translate
To convey to heaven without death.
Translate
(Physics) To subject (a body) to translation.
Translate
(Biology) To subject (messenger RNA) to translation.
Translate
To make a translation.
Translate
To work as a translator.
Translate
To admit of translation
His poetry translates well.
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).
Translate
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
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.
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.
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.
Translate
(transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.
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.
Translate
To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
Translate
Senses relating to a change of position.
Translate
To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
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.
Translate
(analysis) In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
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.
Translate
To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
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.
Translate
To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
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.
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.
Translate
To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
Translate
To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
Translate
To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
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.
Translate
Change from one form or medium into another;
Braque translated collage into oil
Translate
Make sense of a language;
She understands French
Can you read Greek?
Translate
Bring to a certain spiritual state
Translate
Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
Translate
Be equivalent in effect;
The growth in income translates into greater purchasing power
Translate
Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way;
Poetry often does not translate
Tolstoy's novels translate well into English
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
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?
Translate
Genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
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