Word: translate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”). Pronunciation: /tɹɑːnzˈleɪt/, /tɹænz-/, /tɹɑːns-/, /tɹæns-/, /tɹænzˈleɪt/ 1. Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. Labels: transitive Example: Hans translated my novel into Welsh. Example: [H]e [Theodore Beza] tranſlateth animam, a Carcaſe: (ſo calling our Sauiour Christes bodie, irreuerently, and wickedly) he tranſlateth infernum, graue. 2. Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. Labels: intransitive Example: Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh. Example: That idiom doesn’t really translate. 3. Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. Labels: transitive Example: These works he [Oliver Goldsmith] produced without any elaborate research, by merely selecting, abridging, and 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. 4. Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. Labels: transitive Example: The director faithfully translated their experiences to film. Example: [H]appy is your Grace / That can tranſlate the ſtubbornneſſe of fortune / Into ſo quiet and ſo ſweet a ſtile. 5. Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. Labels: transitive Example: If one were to chart the form of most film songs, translated into conventional terms used in Western music, one would likely see a structure that has an introduction and two or three stanzas: […] 6. Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. Labels: intransitive Example: Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film. Example: His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser. 7. Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. Labels: transitive Example: All mRNAs are translated on the basis of consecutive groups of three bases, codons, being interpreted by the translational machinery […]. Many diverse proteins and RNAs are involved in the translation of mRNA. First is the mRNA itself, which is the template "read" and translated into a protein product. 8. Senses relating to a change of position. 9. Senses relating to a change of position. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor. Example: [H]e [David] Accuſeth not the King [Saul], but tranſlateth the fault wholly upon his Evil Miniſters; as the Iſraelites do in the like Caſe, Exod[us] 5. 16. 10. Senses relating to a change of position. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Not far from hence is the Church and Convent of the Dominicans, where in the Chapel of St. Catherine of Sienna, they shew her head, the rest of her body being translated to Rome. 11. Senses relating to a change of position. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Iohn Fiſher Biſhop of Rocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived. Example: One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will[iam] Warham Principal or Moderator thereof; which he leaving this year (having before had ſeveral Deputies therein) becauſe of his preferment to the ſee of London, became void for ſome time. The year following the ſaid Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, […] 12. Senses relating to a change of position. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: By faith Enoch was tranſlated, that he ſhould not ſee death; and was not found, becauſe God had tranſlated him: For before his tranſlation he had this teſtimonie, that he pleaſed God. Example: He [Vitus Theodorus] was called to be a Paſtor at Norinberg, his own country, […] till it pleaſed God to put an end to his labors, by tranſlating him out of this vale of tears into his Everlaſting Kingdom, Anno Chriſti 1549. 13. Senses relating to a change of position. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: After translating this plane, parallel to the ground line, to the position n#95;1L#95;1r#95;1, these points appear at n#95;1 and r#95;1. 14. Senses relating to a change of position. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: It is convenient at this point to translate the axis of the n dimensional space so that the origin of each axis occurs at its arithmetical mean. 15. Senses relating to a change of position. Labels: archaic, obsolete, transitive Example: He [John Mackintosh] considers all the eruptions, even erysipelas, in the light of natural blisters, established by powers inherent in the constitution, which enable it to translate disease from the internal organs to the skin; […] 16. Senses relating to a change of position. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Consider a collection of objects – perfectly elastic pool balls, perhaps – rattling around inside a closed, isolated container. We can translate the container and its contents through space, and the physics inside the container is unchanged. 17. Senses relating to a change of position. Labels: archaic, intransitive, transitive Example: If the ball were to hit the racket at its center of mass (CM) or balance point (which is usually in the throat of the racket), the racket recoil would be pure translation and there would be no rotation of the racket. Instead, if the ball were to hit in the center of the strung area, the racket would both translate (to conserve linear momentum) and rotate (to conserve angular momentum), […] Example: Let us assume the gas molecule to be a structureless "billiard ball," translating in space and frequently colliding with the neighboring molecules. 18. To entrance (“place in a trance”), to cause to lose recollection or sense. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes. 19. To repair (used shoes, boots or other clothing) for resale. Labels: obsolete, slang, transitive Example: Boots and Shoes are not to be had, I am told, in sufficient quantity for the demand from the slop-shops, the "translators," and the second-hand dealers. Great quantities of second-hand boots and shoes are sent to Ireland to be "translated" there.