translate

translate is a 9-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
2. transitive verb. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
3. transitive verb. To remove to heaven without a natural death.
4. transitive verb. To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.
5. transitive verb. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words.
6. transitive verb. To change into another form; to transform.
7. transitive verb. To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
8. transitive verb. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
9. intransitive verb. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
10. verb. change from one form or medium into another

    "Braque translated collage into oil"

    Synonyms: transform

11. verb. change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
12. verb. make sense of a language

    "She understands French"

    "Can you read Greek?"

    Synonyms: interpret, read, understand

13. verb. determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
14. verb. restate (words) from one language into another language

    "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."

    "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"

    Synonyms: interpret, render

15. verb. express, as in simple and less technical language

    "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"

    "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"

16. verb. bring to a certain spiritual state
17. verb. subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
18. verb. be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way

    "poetry often does not translate"

    "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"

19. verb. be equivalent in effect

    "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

Synonyms

transform, interpret, read, understand, render

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in translate:

alterants, tarletans

Common word forms

translated, translater, translates, translating

Words from these letters

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