translate (Verb) — Restate (words) from one language into another language. ex. "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S." ex. "He translates for the U.N."
translate (Verb) — Change from one form or medium into another. ex. "Braque translated collage into oil"
translate (Verb) — Make sense of a language. ex. "She translates French"
translate (Verb) — Bring to a certain spiritual state.
translate (Verb) — (geometry) change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation.
translate (Verb) — Be equivalent in effect. ex. "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
translate (Verb) — Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way. ex. "poetry often does not translate" ex. "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
translate (Verb) — (physics) subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body.
translate (Verb) — Express, as in simple and less technical language. ex. "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?" ex. "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"
translate (Verb) — (genetics) determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA.