translate
/træns'leit/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To express the meaning of words or text in another language: The core meaning is to change written or spoken communication from one language into another.
- To change something from one form, state, or medium to another: This involves a transformation or conversion, not necessarily between languages.
- To be capable of being changed into another form or language: Describes the inherent quality of something that allows for translation.
- To result in or be equivalent to a particular effect: To have a direct consequence or parallel in another context.
Examples of Usage
- Verb (Language):
- She will translate the document from Spanish to English.
- Can you translate what he just said?
- Verb (Form/Medium):
- The artist sought to translate the feeling of chaos into a sculpture.
- It's difficult to translate theoretical ideas into practical solutions.
- Verb (Capability):
- Idioms often do not translate well between cultures.
- This novel translates beautifully into film.
- Verb (Result/Effect):
- Increased investment should translate into higher productivity.
- His confidence on the practice field did not translate to the actual game.
Advanced Usage
- "to translate as": to interpret or understand something in a specific way.
- His silence was translated as agreement.
- In computing: To convert data from one format to another.
- The software translates the code into machine language.
- In biology: To form a protein based on the genetic code in messenger RNA.
- Ribosomes translate the mRNA sequence.
Variants and Related Words
- Translation (n): The process or product of translating.
- The translation of the poem captured its original spirit.
- Translator (n): A person or tool that translates.
- She works as a professional translator.
- Translatable (adj): Capable of being translated.
- The concept is easily translatable across different fields.
Synonyms
- Interpret: Often used for spoken language or explaining meaning.
- Render: To express in another language or artistic form.
- Convert: To change from one form, function, or system to another.
- Paraphrase: To express the meaning using different words, especially for clarity.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Translate into: To result in or be converted into something.
- Careful planning translates into a successful event.
Related Idioms
- Lost in translation: Meaning or nuance that is not successfully conveyed when moved from one language or context to another.
- The joke's humor was lost in translation.
Verb
- determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
- express, as in simple and less technical language
- Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?
- Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?
- subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
- be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
- poetry often does not translate
- Tolstoy's novels translate well into English
- be equivalent in effect
- the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power
- change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
- bring to a certain spiritual state
- make sense of a language
- She understands French
- Can you read Greek?
- change from one form or medium into another
- Braque translated collage into oil
- 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.