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Verb translate has 10 senses

translate, interpret, render - 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."
--₁ is one way to repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell

Derived forms: noun translation₁, noun translator₁, noun translator₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
translate, transform - change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"
--₂ is one way to change, alter, modify

Derived form: noun translation₃
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
understand, read, interpret, translate - make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
--₃ is one way to understand
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
translate - bring to a certain spiritual state
--₄ is one way to transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
translate - change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
--₅ is one way to move, displace

Derived form: noun translation₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
translate - be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"
--₆ is one way to equal, be
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
translate - be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"
--₇ is one way to be

Derived form: noun translation₁
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
translate - physics: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
--₈ is one way to move, displace

Derived form: noun translation₇
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
translate - express, as in simple and less technical langauge; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"
--₉ is one way to paraphrase, rephrase, reword
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
translate - genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
--₁₀ is one way to determine, find, find out, ascertain

Derived form: noun translation₅
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something