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. Thomas Buford:

   If you can spend less of your time being sedentary and just incorporate more activity – even light activity - in your day that can translate to benefits.

2. Eric Abbruzzese:

   Apple's been building ARKit on the mobile device side for years, much of that will absolutely translate to their headsets.

3. Mariam Farzayee:

   Since everything is happening so fast, there’s been a lot of misinformation that’s spreading, yesterday, I listened to a Taliban debriefing, and they said in Farsi, which I was able to translate on my own, that they want all the interpreters to stay and they won’t be seeking revenge on them. But then I’m logging onto Instagram or Twitter and Facebook, I’m reading these news reports about how they actually did end up killing these interpreters.

4. Rajiv Sethi:

   Predictions markets translate this and other information into probability, the basic intuition is that it's a 'wisdom of crowds' effect.

5. Margo Aaron:

   I’ve always been curious about what makes people tick, what motivates behavior, and why we do the things we do, Aaron told me. After she completed graduate school at Columbia and went into marketing, she became what she calls a defacto translator between academia and the real world. I started my consulting practice shortly thereafter and continued to ‘translate’ psychological research into marketing and eventually business.