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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
translate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
roughly
▪ To the uninitiated that roughly translates as a drinking establishment with thumping rock music and brash videos crammed with hordes of fun-seekers.
▪ It means, I think, roughly translated: Mountaineers always have guns.
usually
▪ The Logos is usually translated as the Word, but it has a stronger meaning.
▪ In the case of exchanges it usually translates into a general contractual duty to act fairly.
▪ Another early concept was that of the Ba, which is usually translated as meaning the soul.
■ NOUN
action
▪ It will consider how the people's will is translated into political action.
▪ Keep that in mind because without it all the fine planning in the world will never be translated into action.
▪ The third functional activity is that of spending when decisions are translated into action where, for example, goods are actually purchased.
▪ Once you have made this list, translate these negative actions into positive ones.
▪ The important thing about the Bible is that its words be translated into actions.
▪ Here people accept the importance of regular exercise but it is not clear if they are translating the message into action.
▪ Cast ells was particularly weak on the question of how such contradictions were translated into social action.
▪ The purpose of the organisation needs to be translated into management actions.
book
▪ He now lives in London with Flora Drew, who has expertly translated his book.
▪ He was later to become owner of a Beirut company that dubbed educational films and translated technical books into Arabic.
form
▪ All have been translated into successful choreographic form.
▪ Once she translated words into picture form, she also found that her comprehension improved as well.
▪ Once the Conservatives came to power in 1979 the unrest began to be translated into policy form.
▪ He has their virtues translated into masculine form.
idea
▪ Once I got home I translated the idea into a pressed flower design.
▪ From then onwards I have liked drawing the ideas that come to me, and translating every idea into an image.
▪ There are, however, some anthropologists who have tried to translate Dollard's ideas into social terms.
information
▪ The first drugs attacked the copying enzyme in the hope that if the virus could not translate its information it would fail.
▪ If we translate analogue information into a digital form, we can suddenly manipulate it freely in almost any way we wish.
language
▪ If the need arises, the Profile will be translated into other languages.
▪ The novel became an international best-seller and was translated into 19 languages.
▪ His work has been translated into several languages and has received widespread international acclaim.
▪ With an expanding share of business overseas, Hollywood has to produce movies that translate easily into any language.
▪ Can topics be translated into languages which are not topic-prominent?
▪ In that office he translated the old church language about a sense of mission, redirecting it to the nation.
▪ Well, it has been translated into 18 languages.
▪ It sold more than 1 million copies and was translated into four other languages.
policy
▪ Once the Conservatives came to power in 1979 the unrest began to be translated into policy form.
▪ Constructive ideals of training and rehabilitation were translated into penal policies that appeared to be meeting their objectives.
▪ Alienism obstructs the progress of deaf people aiming to become professionals in education, because it is subsequently translated into policy.
practice
▪ Corporately teachers can plan and develop strategies, translate them into practice and monitor and evaluate their effect.
▪ What they write can also make a difference to the way the legal plans for the curriculum are translated into classroom practice.
▪ However, the theory of unalloyed benefit to plants does not translate into practice.
▪ Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized.
▪ Whether it translates into practice depends on a number of imponderables.
▪ The Government have capitulated on principle, but they have made a terrible mess of translating the principle into practice.
▪ The ideology of equality, even when translated into good institutional practice, may result only in impersonality.
reality
▪ Just as Sylvia had eventually to translate her visualization into reality, so too did Clive.
word
▪ The important thing about the Bible is that its words be translated into actions.
▪ But if Government words translate into action, they hope their suffering will not be shared by others.
▪ This process will inevitably continue down the system to the point where the words are actually translated into teaching acts.
▪ These are the formal rules by which the graphemes which form words are translated into the code used for pronunciation.
■ VERB
need
▪ By the way, you never tell me why you needed the strange paragraph translated.
▪ And then he pointed out that he would need me to translate for him with students and the authorities.
▪ The purpose of the organisation needs to be translated into management actions.
▪ He spoke Arabic now without strain and from the inside, not needing to translate, thinking in the Arabic mode.
try
▪ I have tried to translate them for you.
▪ Raju had been valiantly trying to translate what was said with limited success.
▪ Unfortunately, there is no word for hinge in Sesotho and Father George had a tough time trying to translate.
▪ I try to translate the movement in that.
▪ It would be premature - and misleading - to try to translate these slowly shifting attitudes into a readiness for dramatic change.
▪ There are, however, some anthropologists who have tried to translate Dollard's ideas into social terms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Can you translate this into French?
▪ Hollywood has to produce movies that translate easily into any language.
▪ Michael Meyer translated the play from the original Norwegian.
▪ No one else spoke French, so I had to translate.
▪ She has translated a number of his books.
▪ The best translators usually translate from a foreign language into their native language.
▪ The book has been translated into 27 languages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Already, we have technology that can take text and translate it into a computerized speaking voice.
▪ But its unremitting intensity and massive repetition do not translate easily.
▪ Here people accept the importance of regular exercise but it is not clear if they are translating the message into action.
▪ His research material is based on ancient and Sumerian texts, which he translates himself.
▪ Professor Ito translates for the others.
▪ That disgust is translated into violent purging by vomiting or laxatives.
▪ That would translate to £10,750 for a 13-week term.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Translate

Translate \Trans*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Translated; p. pr. & vb. n. Translating.] [f. translatus, used as p. p. of transferre to transfer, but from a different root. See Trans-, and Tolerate, and cf. Translation.]

  1. To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic]
    --Dryden.

    In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome.
    --Evelyn.

  2. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.

  3. To remove to heaven without a natural death.

    By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim.
    --Heb. xi. 5.

  4. (Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. ``Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused.''
    --Camden.

  5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words.

    Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.
    --Macaulay.

  6. To change into another form; to transform.

    Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
    --Shak.

  7. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.

  8. To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.]
    --J. Fletcher.

Translate

Translate \Trans*late\, v. i. To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
translate

early 14c., "to remove from one place to another," also "to turn from one language to another," from Old French translater and directly from Latin translatus "carried over," serving as past participle of transferre "to bring over, carry over" (see transfer), from trans- (see trans-) + latus "borne, carried" (see oblate (n.)). Related: Translated; translating. A similar notion is behind the Old English word it replaced, awendan, from wendan "to turn, direct" (see wend).

Wiktionary
translate

n. (label en analysis in Euclidean spaces) A set of points obtained ''by'' adding a ''given'' fixed vector to each point ''of'' a ''given'' set. vb. 1 (label en transitive) To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another. 2 (label en intransitive) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language. 3 (label en transitive) To change from one form or medium to another. 4 (label en intransitive) To change from one form or medium to another. 5 (label en transitive physics) To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation. 6 (label en transitive archaic) To transfer, to move from one place or position to another. 7 (label en transitive Christianity) To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another. 8 (label en transitive Christianity) To transfer a bishop from one see to another. 9 (label en transitive Christianity) To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death. 10 (label en transitive obsolete) To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection. 11 (label en transitive music) To rearrange a song from one genre to another. 12 (label en medicine) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.

WordNet
translate
  1. v. 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: interpret, render]

  2. change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil" [syn: transform]

  3. make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: understand, read, interpret]

  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. physics: 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 langauge; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"

  10. genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

Wikipedia
Translate (album)

Translate is an album by Sexy Sadie, released in 2006.

Usage examples of "translate".

With mark-to-market accounting, those increases translated into reported profits.

Produced by Dagny, and John Bickers The Exiles By Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring ALMAE SORORI In the year 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame.

Long years at sea, standing watch on the bridges of ships, had taught me the value of that instrument, what those small changes of barometric pressure could mean translated into physical terms of weather.

These tales Winter would relate to the old Earl, sitting opposite him in a tall oak-backed chair, her small feet dangling well clear of the floor, and translating direct from the language of Zobeida and Aziza Begum so that they assumed a strongly Biblical flavour.

Helva translated, as she was expected to, to mean that Kira Mirsky of Canopus would make an unusually fine brawn if she gave herself half a chance.

To which is added historical, philosophical, and explanatory notes, translated from the French of Raymond de St.

Does any man really suppose, that, of a score of noble young fellows who have just laid down their lives for their country, the Homoousians are received to the mansions of bliss, and the Homoousians translated from the battle-field to the abodes of everlasting woe?

A journeywoman teller of news, Marghe translated, though obviously with some ritual function.

Wolves never Meditated, Wolves never Appreciated, Wolves never were Translated.

Liber Metempsychosis Veterum Agyptiorum, edited and translated into Latin from the funeral papyri by H.

Home Systems work, a thin gold and jade communicator-cum-companion, voice activated, with a giga-bit memory, and enough microprogramming to play music, translate Bug signals, and teach you Classic French cooking, all at the same time.

Derek turned it over in his hands, recognizing Home Systems work, a thin gold and jade communicator-cum-companion, voice activated, with a giga-bit memory, and enough microprogramming to play music, translate Bug signals, and teach you Classic French cooking, all at the same time.

Sieske translated as much as possible of the conversation, and presently old Mijnheer Van Minn en came and sat beside her, and talked, rather hesitantly, in English.

It took some time, for Sieske had to translate as she went along, and Mevrouw Van Minn en asked a great number of questions.

Brought up in a strict churchgoing protestant area, I soon refused to accept implicitly the teachings of the orthodox church, knowing that the Bible is only a collection of legends, translated and mistranslated many times.