1. translate - verb
· 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."
Hypernym(s): repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
2. translate - verb
· change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"
Synonym(s): transform
Hypernym(s): change, alter, modify
3. translate - verb
· make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
Synonym(s): understand, read, interpret
Hypernym(s): understand
4. translate - verb
· bring to a certain spiritual state
Hypernym(s): transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
5. translate - verb
· change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
6. translate - verb
· be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
7. translate - verb
· be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
Hypernym(s): be
8. translate - verb
· 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 - verb
· 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?"
Hypernym(s): paraphrase, rephrase, reword
10. translate - verb
· determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
Hypernym(s): determine, find, find_out, ascertain
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