translate
/tɹænzˈleɪt/ verb B1- To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another. · Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
- To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language. · Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.· That idiom doesn’t really translate.
- To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.
- To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
- To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
- To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another. · Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.· His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser.
- To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
- Senses relating to a change of position.
Plural translate · He/she/it translates · Past translated · Past participle translated · -ing form translating
Verb forms
- Base form
- translate
- He/she/it
- translates
- Past
- translated
- Past participle
- translated
- -ing form
- translating
From the library
It means, translated, “Give me leave to hunt here because I am hungry.” And the answer is, “Hunt then for food, but not for pleasure.”
“Ask her,” said Morrel, translating Noirtier’s thought this time by his look.
Accustomed, however, as he was to the work, he had to repeat most of the letters of the alphabet and to find every word in the dictionary, so that it was ten minutes before the thought of the old man was translated by these words,
“My good friend, as in all probability I own my present safety to that influence, it would ill become me to search too closely into its source; therefore, instead of condemning him for his intimacy with outlaws, you must give me leave to excuse any little irregularity there may be in such a connection; not altogether for preserving my life, for my own idea was that it never was in much danger, but certainly for saving me 4,000 piastres, which, being translated, means neither more nor less than 24,000 livres of our money—a sum at which, most assuredly, I should never have been estimated in France, proving most indisputably,” added Albert with a laugh, “that no prophet is honored in his own country.”
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