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verb
(past & past part. translated; pres. part. translating)
1.
Restate (words) from one language into another language.  Synonyms: interpret, render.  "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?" , "She rendered the French poem into English" , "He translates for the U.N."
2.
Change from one form or medium into another.  Synonym: transform.
3.
Make sense of a language.  Synonyms: interpret, read, understand.  "Can you read Greek?"
4.
Bring to a certain spiritual state.
5.
Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation.
6.
Be equivalent in effect.
7.
Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way.  "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.  "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.



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... particularly Greek, with much higher reputation than any other schoolmaster within a pretty extensive circuit. Two of his pupils read all the Iliad, and all or the greater part of Sophocles. After hearing a long sentence of Greek or Latin distinctly recited, he could generally construe and translate it with little or no hesitation. He was always much gratified by Telford's visits, which were not infrequent, ...
— The Life of Thomas Telford by Smiles • Samuel Smiles
... what she would have said if she could have spoken her thought. 'Oh, you are furious that I haven't given you a chance to fly at me again, and you must take it out in sulks!' These were the ideas—ideas of 'fury' and sulks—into which Selina could translate feelings that sprang from the pure depths of one's conscience. Mrs. Collingwood protested—she said it was a shame that Laura shouldn't go in and enjoy herself when she looked so lovely. 'Doesn't she look lovely?' She appealed to Mrs. Berrington. 'Bless ...
— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James
... on the beds! We went to a restaurant—fortunately no Russian goes to bed early—and found the queerest place, empty save for a band and a lady. The lady and the band were having supper. She, poor soul, was painted and dyed, but she offered her services to translate my French for me when the waiters could understand nothing but Russian. I was thankful to eat something and go to bed ...
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... Tennyson's song in the 'Princess,' it would seem that swallows were favourite messengers of love. In the next song which I translate, the repetition of one thought with delicate variation is full of character ...
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