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Meaning of translate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  translate
      v 1: 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?"; "She rendered the French poem into English";
           "He translates for the U.N." [syn: {translate},
           {interpret}, {render}]
      2: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque
         translated collage into oil" [syn: {translate}, {transform}]
      3: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you
         read Greek?" [syn: {understand}, {read}, {interpret},
         {translate}]
      4: bring to a certain spiritual state
      5: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without
         rotation
      6: be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates
         into greater purchasing power"
      7: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry
         often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well
         into English"
      8: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves
         parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the
         body
      9: 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?"
      10: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its
          synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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