translate.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
Meaning & usage
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. 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.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. 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.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. To change (something) from one form or medium to another. To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. 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.
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
Senses relating to a change of position.
Senses relating to a change of position. To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
Senses relating to a change of position. To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer. To transfer the remains of a deceased person (such as a monarch or other important person) from one place to another; (specifically, Christianity) to transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
Senses relating to a change of position. To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer. To transfer a bishop or other cleric from one post to another.
Senses relating to a change of position. To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer. Of a holy person or saint: to be assumed into or to rise to Heaven without bodily death; also (figurative) to die and go to Heaven.
Senses relating to a change of position. To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer. In Euclidean geometry: to transform (a geometric figure or space) by moving every point by the same distance in a given direction.
Senses relating to a change of position. To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer. To map (the axes in a coordinate system) to parallel axes in another coordinate system some distance away.
Senses relating to a change of position. To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer. To cause (a disease or something giving rise to a disease) to move from one body part to another, or (rare) between persons.
Senses relating to a change of position. To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer. To subject (a body) to linear motion with no rotation.
Senses relating to a change of position. To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer. Of a body: to be subjected to linear motion with no rotation.
To entrance (“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.
To repair (used shoes, boots or other clothing) for resale.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).
In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).
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