HOW TO PRONOUNCE
translate
/tɹænzˈleɪt/
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What does translate mean?
verb
- To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
- To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.
- 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.
More meanings (17)
verb
- 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.
- To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
- Senses relating to a change of position.
- (archaic) To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
- (archaic) 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.
- (archaic) To transfer a bishop or other cleric from one post to another.
- (archaic) 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.
- (archaic) In Euclidean geometry: to transform (a geometric figure or space) by moving every point by the same distance in a given direction.
- (archaic) To map (the axes in a coordinate system) to parallel axes in another coordinate system some distance away.
- (archaic, obsolete) To cause (a disease or something giving rise to a disease) to move from one body part to another, or (rare) between persons.
- (archaic) To subject (a body) to linear motion with no rotation.
- (archaic) Of a body: to be subjected to linear motion with no rotation.
- (obsolete) To entrance (“place in a trance”), to cause to lose recollection or sense.
- (obsolete, slang) To repair (used shoes, boots or other clothing) for resale.
noun
- In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
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IPA pronunciation
/tɹænzˈleɪt/
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She made me translate what she could only express in her own tongue, and eagerly asked for the meaning of his replies.
And the words, "they are gone away from men," Maurer and Gesenius translate, "far from men they move with uncertain steps--they stagger."
More book examples (3)
The wires were ringing with a story the birds could not translate, and Freckles was quite as ignorant of the trouble as they.
The world is full of theorists, dreamers, uplifters, reformers, who have worthy visions but are not able to translate them into practical realities.
He thus comments on Payne's Vol. iv., some of the tales of which, translate them as you will, cannot be other than shocking.