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Translate

verb

(past & past part. translated; pres. part. translating)

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."

Change from one form or medium into another. Synonym: transform.

Make sense of a language. Synonyms: interpret, read, understand. "Can you read Greek?"

Bring to a certain spiritual state.

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

Be equivalent in effect.

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

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

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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... now greatly adhered to in poetry; it became especially descriptive and scientific; the aim of every poet was now to render most exactly, even minutely, the impressions received, or faithfully to translate into artistic language a thesis of philosophy, a discovery of science. With such a poetical doctrine, you will easily understand the importance which the ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... close up to Mary, and repeated a few words of Latin. "Now," says I, "look into my eyes, and see if you can translate them." ...

— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat

... the costume of the past—you know the English have such an attachment to the past. I said this the other day to Madame do Maisonrouge—that Miss Vane dressed in the costume of the past. De l'an passe, vous voulez dire? said Madame, with her little French laugh (you can get William Platt to translate this, he used to tell me he ...

— A Bundle of Letters • Henry James

... those never perfect. I remembered him and his 'Slaves' as I passed between Capes Matapan, St. Angelo, and his Isle of Ceriga, and I always bewailed the absence of the Anthology. I suppose he will now translate Vondel, the Dutch Shakspeare, and 'Gysbert van Amstel' will easily be accommodated to our stage in its present state; and I presume he saw the Dutch poem, where the love of Pyramus and Thisbe is ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... said to be "dog weary." A wretched room or house is often called "a dog hole," or said to be only fit for "a dog." Very poor verse is "doggerel." It is told of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, that when a young nobleman refused to translate some inscription over an alcove, because it was in "dog-latin," she observed, "How strange a puppy shouldn't understand his ...

— Heads and Tales • Various

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