translate

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.
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  understand , read , interpret , transform , render