Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
- 2transitive verb
To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
- 3transitive verb
To remove to heaven without a natural death.
- 4transitive verb
To remove, as a bishop, from one See to another.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6transitive verb
To change into another form; to transform.
- 7transitive verb
To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
- 8transitive verb
To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.
- 9intransitive verb
To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.
- 10verb
change from one form or medium into another
"Braque translated collage into oil"
Synonyms
- 11verb
change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
- 12verb
make sense of a language
"She understands French"
"Can you read Greek?"
Synonyms
- 13verb
determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
- 14verb
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?"
- 15verb
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?"
- 16verb
bring to a certain spiritual state
- 17verb
subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
- 18verb
be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
"poetry often does not translate"
"Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
- 19verb
be equivalent in effect
"the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
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