Sekirov Dictionary

translate

UK /tɹɑːnzˈleɪt/US /tɹænzˈleɪt/

verb 19
noun 1
forms 6

verb19

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To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
- Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
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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.
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To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
- The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.
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To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
- If one were to chart the form of most film songs, translated into conventional terms used in Western music, one would likely see a structure that has an introduction and two or three stanzas: […] — 2015
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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 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 generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
Senses relating to a change of position.
To transfer a bishop or other cleric from one post to another.
In Euclidean geometry: to transform (a geometric figure or space) by moving every point by the same distance in a given direction.
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To map (the axes in a coordinate system) to parallel axes in another coordinate system some distance away.
- It is convenient at this point to translate the axis of the n dimensional space so that the origin of each axis occurs at its arithmetical mean. — 1957
To subject (a body) to linear motion with no rotation.
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Of a body: to be subjected to linear motion with no rotation.
- Let us assume the gas molecule to be a structureless "billiard ball," translating in space and frequently colliding with the neighboring molecules. — 2015
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(no longer used) To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
- Cursed be he which translateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor. — 1559
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(no longer used) To transfer the remains of a deceased person (such as a monarch or other important person) from one place to another; (specifically, Christianity) to transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
- Not far from hence is the Church and Convent of the Dominicans, where in the Chapel of St. Catherine of Sienna, they shew her head, the rest of her body being translated to Rome. — 1644
(no longer used) To cause (a disease or something giving rise to a disease) to move from one body part to another, or (rare) between persons.
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(no longer used) Of a holy person or saint: to be assumed into or to rise to Heaven without bodily death; also (figurative) to die and go to Heaven.
- By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: For before his translation he had this testimonie, that he pleased God. — 1611
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(no longer used) To entrance (“place in a trance”), to cause to lose recollection or sense.
- William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes.
(slang, no longer used) To repair (used shoes, boots or other clothing) for resale.

noun1

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In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
- [F]ractions with a defining relation are nothing but linear orthogonal arrays or their translates. — 1999

forms

translated · translatedst · translating · translates · translateth · translatest

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