translate

Meanings

• restate (words) from one language into another language
  • "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."
  • "He translates for the U.N."
• change from one form or medium into another
  • "Braque translated collage into oil"
• 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
  • "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
• be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
  • "poetry often does not translate"
  • "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
• 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 language
  • "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"
  • "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"
• determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

Synonyms

interpret, read, render, transform, understand