Translate Definition

trănslāt, trănz-, trăns-lāt, trănz-

translated, translates, translating

verb

translated, translates, translating

To make a translation into another language.

Webster's New World

To put into the words of a different language.

Webster's New World

To be capable of being translated.

Webster's New World

To change from one form, function, or state to another; convert or transform.

Translate ideas into reality.

American Heritage

To move from one place or condition to another; transfer.

Webster's New World

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noun

(analysis) (in Euclidean spaces) A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

Wiktionary

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Other Word Forms of Translate

Singular:

translate

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Middle English translaten from Classical Latin translatus, past participle of transferre, from trans- “across" + latus, "borne", "carried", irregular perfect passive participle of verb ferre “to bear". Displaced native Middle English awenden (“to change, translate") (from Old English āwendan), Middle English irecchen (“to explain, expound, interpret") (from Old English Ä¡ereccan), and Old English Ä¡eþēodan (“to engage in, translate").

From Wiktionary
Middle English translaten from Old French translater from Latin trānslātus past participle of trānsferre to transfer trāns- trans- lātus brought telə- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition