translate
Meanings
verb
- Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
- 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.
- 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.
- To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.
- 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.
- To transfer a bishop or other cleric from one post to another.
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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Etymology
From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).
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