translate
IPA: trænzɫˈeɪt
noun
- (mathematical analysis) In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
verb
- Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
- (transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
- (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.
- (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.
- (transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
- (transitive, music) To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
- (intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
- (transitive, genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
- Senses relating to a change of position.
- (transitive, archaic) To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, Christianity) To transfer a bishop or other cleric from one post to another.
- (transitive, Christianity) 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.
- (transitive, mathematics) In Euclidean geometry: to transform (a geometric figure or space) by moving every point by the same distance in a given direction.
- (transitive, mathematics) To map (the axes in a coordinate system) to parallel axes in another coordinate system some distance away.
- (transitive, medicine, obsolete) To cause (a disease or something giving rise to a disease) to move from one body part to another, or (rare) between persons.
- (transitive, physics) To subject (a body) to linear motion with no rotation.
- (intransitive, physics) Of a body: to be subjected to linear motion with no rotation.
- (transitive, obsolete) To entrance (“place in a trance”), to cause to lose recollection or sense.
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Examples of "translate" in Sentences
- But you cannot simply translate the word proof.
- The brochure was translated into all the languages spoken in the monarchy.
- The linguist translates into the modern language and the historian takes over.