
Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)translate, interpret, renderrestate (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.” (v)translate, transformchange from one form or medium into another“Braque translated collage into oil” (v)translatebring to a certain spiritual state (v)translatechange the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation (v)translatebe equivalent in effect“the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power” (v)translatebe translatable, or be translatable in a certain way“poetry often does not translate”,
“Tolstoy's novels translate well into English” (v)translatesubject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body (v)translateexpress, 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?” (v)translatedetermine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA