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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Translate \Trans*late"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Translated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Translating}.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See {Trans-}, and {Tolerate}, and cf. {Translation}.]
1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] --Dryden.
In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome. --Evelyn.
2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
3. 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. --Heb. xi. 5.
4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. ''Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused.'' --Camden.
5. 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. --Macaulay.
6. To change into another form; to transform.
Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. --Shak.
7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.] --J. Fletcher.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Translate \Trans*late\, verb (used without an object) To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
translate
verb
1: 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." [syn: {interpret}, {render}]
2: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil" [syn: {transform}]
3: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: {understand}, {read}, {interpret}]
4: bring to a certain spiritual state
5: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
6: be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
7: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
8: 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
9: 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?"
10: genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "translate": English, alter, assign, carry, carry over, change, communicate, consign, construe, convert, convey, decipher, decode, deliver, deport, diffuse, dispatch, disseminate, elucidate, expel, explain, export, extradite, forward, hand forward, hand on, hand over, impart, import, interpret, make over, metabolize, metamorphose, metaphrase, metastasize, metathesize, move, mutate, paraphrase, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, perfuse, relay, render, reword, rewrite, send, ship, spell out, spread, switch, transcribe, transfer, transfer property, transfigure, transform, transfuse, transliterate, translocate, transmit, transmogrify, transmute, transplace, transplant, transport, transpose, transubstantiate, turn, turn into, turn over
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