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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change from one form or medium into another

Example:

Braque translated collage into oil

Synonyms:

transform; translate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "translate"):

metricise; metricize (express in the metric system)

diagonalise; diagonalize (transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

translation (the act of changing in form or shape or appearance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Domain category:

geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

translation (a uniform movement without rotation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make sense of a language

Example:

Can you read Greek?

Synonyms:

interpret; read; translate; understand

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

understand (know and comprehend the nature or meaning of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 4

Meaning:

Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

ascertain; determine; find; find out (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

translation ((genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Restate (words) from one language into another language

Example:

He translates for the U.N.

Synonyms:

interpret; render; translate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)

Verb group:

translate (be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "translate"):

retranslate (translate again)

mistranslate (translate incorrectly)

gloss (provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase)

Latinize (translate into Latin)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

translation (a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language)

translator (someone who mediates between speakers of different languages)

translator (a person who translates written messages from one language to another)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Express, as in simple and less technical language

Example:

Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

paraphrase; rephrase; reword (express the same message in different words)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Bring to a certain spiritual state

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport (send from one person or place to another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 8

Meaning:

Subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

translation (the act of uniform movement)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way

Example:

Tolstoy's novels translate well into English

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Verb group:

interpret; render; translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

translation (a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language)

Sense 10

Meaning:

Be equivalent in effect

Example:

the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "translate" is one way to...):

be; equal (be identical or equivalent to)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

When bound to the ribosome, the antibiotic disrupts its ability to interpret and translate genetic code.

(A New Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Its mandate is to translate the findings of basic research into treatments that can benefit patients.

(Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Her findings suggested that reducing PNCs might translate to less cancer progression and possibly better outcomes in patients.

(Scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis, National Institutes of Health)

One day, researchers may be able to translate a version of the nematode control model to the human brain.

(Fundamental Rules for How The Brain Controls Movement, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The sequences on a gene or messenger RNA that are translated into protein.

(Coding Region, NCI Thesaurus)

The study suggests this may translate into changes in the body that put them at higher risk for future heart attack and stroke.

(Too Much Salt? Unhealthy Blood Vessels Changes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers developed a method for translating the features found by the AI—only numbers initially—into high-resolution images that can be understood by humans.

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Molecular Imaging Shared Resource develops imaging reagents and methods that can be widely applied, develops imaging instruments, translates imaging methods to human studies, identifies biological pathways and organs for disease-specific change targeting.

(Molecular Imaging Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The BPI uses simple numeric rating scales from 0 to 10 that are easy to understand and easy to translate into other languages.

(Brief Pain Inventory, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon billing, this data is translated to Milliliters, Grams, for Eaches.

(NCPDP Quantity Unit of Measure Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)