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translate
has definitions from the fields of mathematics,linguistics
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[ verb ] (linguistics) restate (words) from one language into another language
Examples "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" Used in print (Morley Callaghan, A Passion in Rome....)Carla translated . The Holy_Father would die soon , she said to Carla , so she could translate for Sam , although he had a brilliant doctor , a man who did not need the assistance of those doctors offered by the great rulers of the world . Related terms repeat retranslate gloss latinize mistranslate interpreter transcriber |
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[ verb ] change from one form or medium into another
Synonyms Examples "Braque translated collage into oil" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)He milks the latest scientific advances , translating them into his own special Buck_Rogers vocabulary to huckster his fake machines as a cure-all for everything from hay_fever to sexual impotence and cancer . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if_not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make sense of a language
Synonyms Examples "She understands French" "Can you read Greek?" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Until we translate this gospel into a language that enlightened men today can understand , we are depriving ourselves of the very resources on which the continued success of our witness most certainly depends . Related terms |
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[ verb ] bring to a certain spiritual state
Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)If it was , then it must have been God 's intention to translate him at a certain point from time to eternity . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)Fosterite bishops , after secret conclave , announced the Church 's second Major_Miracle : Supreme_Bishop_Digby had been translated bodily to Heaven and spot-promoted to Archangel , ranking with-but-after Archangel_Foster . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (mathematics) change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation, in mathematics
Used in print (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)But **f is just the curve **f translated without rotation through a small arc , for **f is always obtained by rotating C through exactly 90 ` . There are three possibilities : ( a ) **f remains tangent to C as it is translated ; ( b ) **f moves away from C and does not intersect it at_all for **f ; ( c ) **f cuts_across C and there are two ordinary intersections for every t in **f . |
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[ verb ] physics: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
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[ verb ] be equivalent in effect
Examples "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power" Related terms |
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[ verb ] express, as in simple and less technical langauge
Examples "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?" "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?" Related terms |
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[ verb ] genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
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[ verb ] (linguistics) be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
Examples "poetry often does not translate" "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English" Related terms |
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