translate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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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”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: translates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: translating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: translated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: translated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: translate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: translate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: translated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: translate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: translatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: translated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: translatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: translates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: translateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: translated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: translate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: translated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: translate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: translated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: translate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: translating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: translated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: translates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
[H]e [Theodore Beza] tranſlateth animam, a Carcaſe: (ſo calling our Sauiour Christes bodie, irreuerently, and wickedly) he tranſlateth infernum, graue.
"Fool!" said the Tzar [Peter the Great], turning to the monk, "what did I bid you do with the book?" "To translate it, Sire!" "Is this then a translation?" replied the Sovereign, pointing at the same time to a paragraph in the original, where the author had spoken harshly of Russia, and of the character of its inhabitants, but which the good-natured monk had in part omitted, and in part softened down in the most flattering manner to the nation. "Hence!" added the incensed monarch, "and be careful how thou translatest the work faithfully. It is not to flatter my subjects that I bade thee put the book into Russian and print it; but rather to correct them, by placing them under their eye the opinion which foreigners entertain of them, in order that they may at length know what they once were, and what they are now through my exertions."
His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to translate some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless. […] That kind of thing is very interesting to me. When I was learning Spanish, I would often take my favorite songs and try to translate them.
There’s the Thor fly in tribute of the God of Thunder, played in Marvel by Chris Hemsworth. Its scientific name is “Daptolestes bronteflavus,” which is derived from Latin like most scientific names – and translates to “blond thunder.”
gloss: Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.
That idiom doesn’t really translate.
‘Dog’ translates as ‘chien’ in French.
However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.
gloss: Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.
[H]appy is your Grace / That can tranſlate the ſtubbornneſſe of fortune / Into ſo quiet and ſo ſweet a ſtile.
Embracing slave spirituals as the foundation of the Negro music he hoped to develop, Cook sought to translate their sonic power and racial character into forms more readily accessible to American audiences of all races in the twentieth century.
Sue Anne considered several approaches for translating the damselfly's vivid colors and translucent wings into handwoven cloth.
gloss: Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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: […]
gloss: Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.
His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser.
When perfection is achieved, the thrill of recognition in the audience fulfills local sensibilities, but translates poorly into academic discourse.
Sometimes, ideas don't end up translating well. That's the nature of art. You may have the greatest idea since sliced bread in your mind, but when you translate it into a film, it just may not work.
The authors believe that the results obtained in mice will translate well into clinical utility for patients.
gloss: Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.
[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.
To find one's self suddenly translated from the wild, flowery prairie into the heart of an aged, moss-grown village, of such foreign aspect, withal, was by no means easy to reconcile with one's notions of reality.
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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.
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, […]
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
And afterwards Thou [God] receivedst Seth and Enoch, and Enoch Thou translatedst; for Thou art the Creator of men, the Fountain of Life, the Supplier of Want, the Giver of Laws, the Rewarder of them that keep them, the Avenger of them that transgress them.
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
obsolete
transitive
examples: 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; […]
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Senses relating to a change of position.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
transitive
examples: 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), […]
Let us assume the gas molecule to be a structureless "billiard ball," translating in space and frequently colliding with the neighboring molecules.
gloss: To entrance (“place in a trance”), to cause to lose recollection or sense.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes.
gloss: To repair (used shoes, boots or other clothing) for resale.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.
pos: noun
examples: [F]ractions with a defining relation are nothing but linear orthogonal arrays or their translates.
If L is a vector space, a linear manifold (or affine subspace) in L is a subset which is a translate of a subspace M#92;subsetL, that is, a set F of the form x#95;0#43;M for some x#95;0#92;inL. [...] The dimension of a linear manifold is the dimension of the subspace of which it is a translate.
Related words: transfer
transference
translation
translational
translationally
translative
translatives
translator
translatory
xlate
Derived words: back-translate
backtranslate
cotranslate
Google Translate
machine-translate
mistranslate
overtranslate
retranslate
scanlate
sight-translate
translatability
translatable
translatee
Translategate
translatese
translatology
translatome
translatomics
undertranslate
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: traduir
lang: Finnish
word: siirtää
lang: German
word: übertragen
lang: Hiligaynon
word: badbad
lang: Hungarian
word: átültet
lang: Italian
word: trasferire
lang: Italian
word: riversare
lang: Latin
word: transfero
lang: Macedonian
word: пренесува
roman: prenesuva
lang: Scots
word: pit ower
lang: Spanish
word: traducir
lang: Spanish
word: trasladar
lang: Welsh
word: trosi
lang: Welsh
word: troi
lang: Bulgarian
word: транслирам
roman: transliram
lang: Finnish
word: siirtää
lang: Galician
word: trasladar
lang: Hungarian
word: áthelyez
lang: Latin
word: transfero