trans|late

trans|late «trans LAYT, tranz-; TRANS layt, TRANZ-», verb, -lat|ed, -lat|ing.

–v.t.

1. to change from one language into another: »

to translate a book from French into English.

2. to change into other words. SYNONYM(S): paraphrase, render.

3. Figurative. a) to explain the meaning of; interpret. b) to express (one thing) in terms of another: »

to translate words into actions.

4. to change from one place, position, or condition to another: »

She was translated to the fairy palace in a second.

SYNONYM(S): transfer, transport.

5. to take to heaven without death: »

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death (Hebrews 11:5).

6. to remove (a bishop) from one see to another.

7. to remove (a bishop's see) from one place to another.

8. Physics. to move (a body) from one point or place to another without rotation.

9. to retransmit (a telegraphic message), as by a relay.

10. Genetics. to use (genetic information in messenger RNA) to direct the formation of amino acid in protein synthesis: »

In this way, the transfer-RNA molecules act as “translating devices,” translating a codon at one end into an amino acid at the other (Isaac Asimov).

11. Archaic. to enrapture: »

their souls, with devotion translated (Longfellow).

–v.i.

1. to change something from one language or form of words into another.

2. to bear translation; allow to be translated: »

Many foreign expressions do not translate well into English.

╂[< Latin trānslātus, past participle of trānsferre; see etym. under transfer (Cf. ↑transfer)]