translate
pronunciation
How to pronounce translate in British English:
UK [trænzˈleɪt]
How to pronounce translate in American English:
US [trænzˈleɪt]
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- Verb:
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- change from one form or medium into another
- make sense of a language
- bring to a certain spiritual state
- change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
- be equivalent in effect
- be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
- 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
- express, as in simple and less technical langauge
- genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
Word Origin
- translate
- translate: [13] To translate something is etymologically to ‘carry it across’ from one language into another. The word was acquired from trānslātus, the past participle of Latin trānsferre ‘carry across, transfer, translate’ (source of English transfer).=> extol, relate
- translate (v.)
- early 14c., "to remove from one place to another," also "to turn from one language to another," from Old French translater and directly from Latin translatus "carried over," serving as past participle of transferre "to bring over, carry over" (see transfer), from trans- (see trans-) + latus "borne, carried" (see oblate (n.)). Related: Translated; translating. A similar notion is behind the Old English word it replaced, awendan, from wendan "to turn, direct" (see wend).
Synonym
Example
- 1. Translate dialogue to foreign languages on the fly .
- 2. Hey , you could translate video games !
- 3. Hard for me to translate your satanese .
- 4. Why are people queueing up to translate ted talks for free ?
- 5. Google translate supports automatic machine translation between 1640 language pairs .