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."
Used in a Sentence
translate
How to use translate in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for translate.
Editorial note
So you can say that if you take any point and translate it by moving it somewhere else, it will behave the same way.
Examples14
Definitions10
Parts of speech1
Quick take
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."
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of translate gathered in one view.
change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"
make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for translate.
verb
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."
verb
change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"
See also: transform
verb
make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
See also: understand, read, interpret
verb
bring to a certain spiritual state
verb
change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
verb
be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
verb
be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
verb
subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
verb
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?"
verb
determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
Example sentences
So you can say that if you take any point and translate it by moving it somewhere else, it will behave the same way.
* Paragraphs 5-7 translate to "your web site sucks, no wonder we couldn't scale it, nobody could," which is the blaming the customer part.
Most of IBM's crap is a thinly veiled customisation on top of Eclipse, it makes me laugh thinking about how that will translate to an iOS device.
Mother knows everything.> She's like a mom, only better.> Sense: the meaning of life®edit: I see they are based in France, so perhaps the branding didn't translate well.
I will translate:"You need to have a crazy-person level of attention to detail" - We will judge you based on anything you've overlooked, rather than what you've done.
Erlang programmers will 100% absolutely correctly complain that OTP can't be translated without loss into Go, and almost nobody will care.
If the biggest chunk of car buyers are vegetarians, and your car consistently smells of bacon, you need to translate that into something positive somehow.
Lisp does things with its bizarre syntax, making it obvious how to write correct macros and being homoiconic, which translates poorly back into Algol-esque infix languages.
It's almost inconceivable that one could translate a concatenative program back into Algol-esque syntax [2].
As you visualize attaining the goal and then contrasting the current situation, maintain your optimism so that you can translate this visualization into a plan of action.
That requires that you first discover the perceptual language of the target, then translate the message into that perceptual language, communicate it, and then test again for understanding.
I found one at Sun which was effectively a 'technical marketing engineer' although at the time I joined the marketing folks just needed an engineer to translate what the competition was doing into something they could argue about.
Haskell has a radically different syntax, but it does things with that syntax and its pervasive currying to enable a powerful succinctness that one can not imagine being translated back into the Algol-esque framework.
On the other hand, there are a lot of people who write computational libraries, but know they have to translate them to matlab, or write a matlab wrapper and pray that their users can get it to compile which might sound simple to folks here, but is really frustrating for less computationally oriented people when something goes wrong.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use translate in a sentence?
So you can say that if you take any point and translate it by moving it somewhere else, it will behave the same way.
What does translate mean?
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."
What part of speech is translate?
translate is commonly used as verb.