translate

Verb
  1. Restate (words) from one language into another language (synset 200961859)
    "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."
    is a type of: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell - to say, state, or perform again
    subtypes:
    same as: interpret, render
    verb group: translate - be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
  2. Change from one form or medium into another (synset 200384213)
    "Braque translated collage into oil"
    is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
    subtypes:
    same as: transform
  3. Make sense of a language (synset 200595247)
    "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
    is a type of: understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
    same as: interpret, read, understand
  4. Bring to a certain spiritual state (synset 201438923)
    is a type of: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport - send from one person or place to another
  5. Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation (synset 200523521)
    referred to in: geometry - the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces
    is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
  6. Be equivalent in effect (synset 202758975)
    "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
    is a type of: be, equal - be identical or equivalent to
  7. Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way (synset 202734017)
    "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
    is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
    verb group: interpret, render, translate - restate (words) from one language into another language
  8. Subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body (synset 202108203)
    referred to in: natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions
    is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
  9. Express, as in simple and less technical language (synset 200963979)
    "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"
    is a type of: paraphrase, rephrase, reword - express the same message in different words
  10. Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA (synset 200921579)
    referred to in: genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
    is a type of: ascertain, determine, find, find out - establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

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