The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
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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. (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.''
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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.
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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. (Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.]
--J. Fletcher.
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vb. (present participle of translate English)
Usage examples of "translating".
The cardinal read it over and returned it, smiling, and remarking that, as he had no taste for Italian poetry, she must give herself the pleasure of translating it into French rhyme if she wished him to admire it.
I shewed her how to make the pyramid with the proper numbers and the other ceremonies, then I made her extract the answer in numbers, translating it into French, and greatly was she surprised to find that the cause which had made me return to Amsterdam so soon was--love.
After the consecration of the tin had been performed, I transferred that of Oromasis to another day, while I consulted the oracle assiduously, the marchioness translating the figures into letters.
Pitch translation invariance means that these different speakers can speak the same speech melody, by translating the speech melody into a range that is comfortable for them.
Renaissance poetry, full of a clotted and frustrated emotionality, translating the Psalms, capable on sight of turning any passage of the Bible from Latin to French and then from French to English.
The first Westminster company, charged with translating the first books of the Bible, had Lancelot Andrewes, Dean of Westminster Abbey, as its director.
Anyone thinking of translating history, poetry, foreign tales or works of classical rhetoric, taking their cue from Cicero and a couple of words of Horace, would despise the literalist as a plodding, and scarcely civilised pedant.
Only comparison with some other attempts at translating scripture can give an idea of what the fifty-odd Jacobean men managed to achieve.
Committees, sub-committees, translating panels, literary advisers, doctrinal experts: all were drafted in.
The translating of the Bible was only one episode on what really mattered: the career path.
No one ventured upon translating that sentence for the benefit of the worthy captain.
On the 16th of October, as I was engaged in translating an ode of Horace, I heard a trampling noise above my head, and then three light blows were struck.
The basic observation is that translating a piece of music does not alter the musical quality of that music in any significant way.
In the harmonic cortical map, translating the pitch will correspondingly translate the pattern of activity in the map.
There is much talk at present about translating European books into the two great languages, the Arabic and Persian.