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Definition of Translate

1. Verb. Restate (words) from one language into another language. "He translates for the U.N."

2. Verb. Change from one form or medium into another. "Braque translated collage into oil"

3. Verb. Make sense of a language. "Can you read Greek?"

4. Verb. Bring to a certain spiritual state.

5. Verb. Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation.

6. Verb. Be equivalent in effect. "The growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

7. Verb. Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way. "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"

8. Verb. Subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body.

9. Verb. Express, as in simple and less technical language. "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"

10. Verb. Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA.

Definition of Translate

1. v. t. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

2. v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

Definition of Translate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Medical Definition of Translate

1. 1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. "In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome." (Evelyn) 2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death. 3. To remove to heaven without a natural death. "By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim." (Heb. Xi. 5) 4. To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . Refused." 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words. "Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls." (Macaulay) 6. To change into another form; to transform. "Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style." (Shak) 7. To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease. 8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. Origin: f. Translatus, used as p. P. Of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Translate

transitorily transitoriness transitory transitory transits transit declinometer transit instrument transit line transit zone transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

transketolase transketolation translatability translatable translate (current term) translate (current term) translated translates translating translating

translating program translation translation translational translational control translational repressor translations translations translative translator

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