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1 English

1.1 Etymology
1.2 Verb

1.2.1 Related terms
1.2.2 Translations

English

Etymology

Derived from Classsical Latin translatus, past participle of transferre, from trans- "across" + ferre "to bear"

Verb

to translate (translated, translated)

To change (a book, document, Web site, movie, anime, or video game) from one language to another.
To change from one form or medium to another, e.g. translate experience to film
(physics) To subject a body to translation, i.e. to move a body on a linear path with no rotation.

Related terms

Translations

Breton: treiñ radical tro- (1)
Bulgarian: превеждам (1)
Catalan: traduïr (1,2)
Dutch: vertalen
Esperanto: traduki
Finnish: kääntää
French: traduire (1), translater (3)
Frisian: oersette
German: übersetzen
Indonesian: terjemah
Italian: tradurre
Japanese: 翻訳する (hon'yaku-suru)
Latin: traducere
Manchu: ubaliyambumbi
Mongolian: орчуулах (orchuulakh)
Polish: tłumaczyć (1), przesuwać po prostej (3)
Romanian: a traduce
Russian: переводить imperf, перевести perf
Spanish: traducir
Swedish: översätta
Tahitian: ʻauvaha, ʻiriti
Vietnamese: dịch

WordNet Definitions

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1. translate, interpret, render -- (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.").
2. translate, transform -- (change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil").
3. understand, read, interpret, translate -- (make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?").
4. translate -- (bring to a certain spiritual state).
5. translate -- (change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation).
6. translate -- (be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power").
7. translate -- (be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English").
8. translate -- (physics: 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. translate -- (express, as in simple and less technical langauge; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?").
10. translate -- (genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA).

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