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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRANSLA'TE, v.t. [L. translatus, from transfero; trans, over, and fero, to bear.]
1. To bear, carry or remove from one place to another. It is applied to the removal of a bishop from one see to another.
The bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him to a better bishoprick, refused.
2. To remove or convey to heaven, as a human being, without death.
By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see
death. Hebrews 16.
3. To transfer; to convey from one to another. 1 Samuel 3.
4. To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
5. To change.
Happy is your grace,
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
6. To interpret; to render into another language; to express the sense of one language in the words of another. The Old Testament was translated into the Greek language more than two hundred years before Christ. The Scriptures are now translated into most of the languages of Europe and Asia.
7. To explain.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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." [syn: translate, interpret, render]
2: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil" [syn: translate, transform]
3: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: understand, read, interpret, translate]
4: bring to a certain spiritual state
5: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
6: be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
7: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
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
9: 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?"
10: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

Merriam Webster's

verb (translated; translating) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French translater, from Latin translatus (past participle of transferre to transfer, translate), from trans- + latus, past participle of ferre to carry — more at tolerate, bear Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to bear, remove, or change from one place, state, form, or appearance to another ; transfer, transform <a country boy translated to the city> <translate ideas into action> b. to convey to heaven or to a nontemporal condition without death c. to transfer (a bishop) from one see to another 2. a. to turn into one's own or another language b. to transfer or turn from one set of symbols into another ; transcribe c. (1) to express in different terms and especially different words ; paraphrase (2) to express in more comprehensible terms ; explain, interpret 3. enrapture 4. to subject to mathematical translation 5. to subject (as genetic information) to translation in protein synthesis intransitive verb 1. to practice translation or make a translation; also to admit of or be adaptable to translation <a word that doesn't translate easily> 2. to undergo a translation 3. lead, result — usually used with into <believes that tax cuts will translate into economic growth> • translatability noun • translatable adjective • translator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 tr. (also absol.) a (often foll. by into) express the sense of (a word, sentence, speech, book, etc.) in another language. b do this as a profession etc. (translates for the UN). 2 intr. (of a literary work etc.) be translatable, bear translation (does not translate well). 3 tr. express (an idea, book, etc.) in another, esp. simpler, form. 4 tr. interpret the significance of; infer as (translated his silence as dissent). 5 tr. move or change, esp. from one person, place, or condition, to another (was translated by joy). 6 intr. (foll. by into) result in; be converted into; manifest itself as. 7 tr. Eccl. a remove (a bishop) to another see. b remove (a saint's relics etc.) to another place. 8 tr. Bibl. convey to heaven without death; transform. 9 tr. Mech. a cause (a body) to move so that all its parts travel in the same direction. b impart motion without rotation to. Derivatives: translatable adj. translatability n. Etymology: ME f. L translatus, past part. of transferre: see TRANSFER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Translate Trans*late", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.] 1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] --Dryden. 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. (Eccl.) 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.'' --Camden. 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. (Med.) 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. [Obs.] --J. Fletcher.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Translate Trans*late, v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(translates, translating, translated) 1. If something that someone has said or written is translated from one language into another, it is said or written again in the second language. Only a small number of Kadare's books have been translated into English... Martin Luther translated the Bible into German... The Celtic word 'geis' is usually translated as 'taboo'... The girls waited for Mr Esch to translate. ...Mr Mani by Yehoshua, translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. VERB: be V-ed into/from n, V n into/from n, be V-ed as n, V, V-ed, also V n, V n as n • translation The papers have been sent to Saudi Arabia for translation. N-UNCOUNT 2. If a name, a word, or an expression translates as something in a different language, that is what it means in that language. His family's Cantonese nickname for him translates as Never Sits Still. VERB: V as n 3. If one thing translates or is translated into another, the second happens or is done as a result of the first. Reforming Warsaw's stagnant economy requires harsh measures that would translate into job losses... Your decision must be translated into specific, concrete actions. VERB: V into n, be V-ed into n 4. If you say that a remark, a gesture, or an action translates as something, or that you translate it as something, you decide that this is what its significance is. 'I love him' often translates as 'He's better than nothing'... I translated this as a mad desire to lock up every single person with HIV. VERB: V as n, V n as n 5. see also translation

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. [Antiquated.] Remove, transport. 2. Transfer. 3. Render, construe, interpret. 4. Transform, change into another form.

Moby Thesaurus

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