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English verb: translate | |||
| 1. | translate (communication) restate (words) from one language into another language | ||
| Samples | I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S.. Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?. She rendered the French poem into English. He translates for the U.N.. | ||
| Synonyms | interpret, render | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | gloss, Latinize, mistranslate, retranslate | ||
| Verb group | translate | ||
| 2. | translate (change) change from one form or medium into another | ||
| Samples | Braque translated collage into oil. | ||
| Synonyms | transform | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | diagonalise, diagonalize, metricise, metricize | ||
| 3. | translate (cognition) make sense of a language | ||
| Samples | She understands French. Can you read Greek?. | ||
| Synonyms | interpret, read, understand | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | understand | ||
| 4. | translate (contact) bring to a certain spiritual state | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport | ||
| 5. | translate (change) change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | displace, move | ||
| Domain category | geometry | ||
| 6. | translate (stative) be equivalent in effect | ||
| Samples | The growth in income translates into greater purchasing power. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something is ----ing PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | be, equal | ||
| 7. | translate (stative) be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way | ||
| Samples | Poetry often does not translate. Tolstoy's novels translate well into English. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Something is ----ing PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | be | ||
| Verb group | interpret, render, translate | ||
| 8. | translate (motion) subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | displace, move | ||
| Domain category | natural philosophy, physics | ||
| 9. | translate (communication) express, as in simple and less technical language | ||
| Samples | Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?. Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | paraphrase, rephrase, reword | ||
| 10. | translate (communication) determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ascertain, determine, find, find out | ||
| Domain category | genetic science, genetics | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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