Synonyms for translate
trænsˈleɪt, trænz-, ˈtræns leɪt, ˈtrænz-trans·late

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1. translate

   Synonyms:
   construe, render, interpret, transfer, transform,

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1. translate, interpret, renderverb

   restate (words) from one language into another language

   "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N."

   Synonyms:
   furnish, construe, deliver, represent, transform, give, fork out, rede, turn in, interpret, try, fork up, hand over, supply, picture, fork over, depict, show, generate, return, understand, provide, read, yield, render, see, submit

2. translate, transformverb

   change from one form or medium into another

   "Braque translated collage into oil"

   Synonyms:
   metamorphose, transubstantiate, transform, transmute, understand, render, read, interpret

3. understand, read, interpret, translateverb

   make sense of a language

   "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

   Synonyms:
   construe, infer, scan, say, represent, sympathise, transform, show, empathize, rede, register, learn, interpret, sympathize, study, record, empathise, take, realise, read, realize, render, see, understand

4. translateverb

   bring to a certain spiritual state

   Synonyms:
   render, interpret, read, understand, transform

5. translateverb

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

   Synonyms:
   render, interpret, read, understand, transform

6. translateverb

   be equivalent in effect

   "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

   Synonyms:
   render, interpret, read, understand, transform

7. translateverb

   be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way

   "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"

   Synonyms:
   render, interpret, read, understand, transform

8. translateverb

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

   Synonyms:
   render, interpret, read, understand, transform

9. translateverb

   express, as in simple and less technical language

   "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"

   Synonyms:
   render, interpret, read, understand, transform

10. translateverb

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

    Synonyms:
    render, interpret, read, understand, transform

Matched Categories

1. • Be
   • Determine
   • Genetics
   • Geometry
   • Move
   • Paraphrase
   • Physics
   • Transport
   • Understand

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1. translateverb

   Synonyms:
   [Antiquated.] remove, transfer, transport

2. translateverb

   Synonyms:
   render, construe, interpret

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1. translateverb

   Synonyms:
   construe, render, interpret

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1. List of paraphrases for "translate":

   translating, convert, transform, translation, transpose, bring, turn, reflect, converting, localize, result

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1. Giuseppe Mazzini:

   Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

2. Kimberly Gudzune:

   Both seem small and I think would be surprising to many patients— those usually translate into a 3 to 5 percent weight loss for the starting weight for most of the patients in these trials.

3. Debra DeShong:

   That's probably going to take a little bit longer to really translate into meaningful out-of-pocket savings for patients.

4. Barack Obama:

   You have to step back and say you have to look at statistics. 2014 was a historic low in violent crime, if there's a spike in some cities, that's something we have to take seriously and pay attention to, but it certainly doesn't suddenly translate into this notion that a crime wave's coming.

5. Catherine Haddon:

   Philip's death really is the beginning of the end of an era. It is a story that reminds us The Queen is a person, not just an institution, the irony is that The Queen younger relatives have to date been little more than personalities, and it's not clear how well that will translate into becoming heads of the monarchy.