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say it: tranz-LAYT
translate is a verb meaning "restate (words) from one language into another language". It carries 10 recorded senses.
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.”
change from one form or medium into another
“Braque translated collage into oil”
make sense of a language
“She understands French”
“Can you read Greek?”
bring to a certain spiritual state
be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
“poetry often does not translate”
“Tolstoy's novels translate well into English”
subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
physics
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?”
determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
genetics
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for translate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.