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Words with a similar base: translate

'translate'

[translate.v.01] as in: restate (words) from one language into another language

Examples:
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'

[translate.v.02] as in: change from one form or medium into another

Examples:
Braque translated collage into oil

'translate'

[understand.v.03] as in: make sense of a language

Examples:
She understands French
Can you read Greek?

'translate'

[translate.v.04] as in: bring to a certain spiritual state

'translate'

[translate.v.05] as in: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation

'translate'

[translate.v.06] as in: be equivalent in effect

Examples:
the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power

'translate'

[translate.v.07] as in: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way

Examples:
poetry often does not translate
Tolstoy's novels translate well into English

'translate'

[translate.v.08] as in: 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'

[translate.v.09] as in: express, as in simple and less technical language

Examples:
Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?
Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?

'translate'

[translate.v.10] as in: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

Origins

					translate (English)
└── translaten (Middle English (1100-1500))