trans·late /trænsˈleɪt/
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."
synset: translate, interpret, render
2. change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"
3. make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
synset: understand, read, interpret, translate
4. bring to a certain spiritual state
synset: translate
5. change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
synset: translate
6. be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
synset: translate
7. be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
synset: translate
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: translate
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?"
synset: translate
10. determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
synset: translate
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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