Main entry: transform, translate
Definition: change from one form or medium into another
Usage: Braque translated collage into oil
Main entry: translate
Definition: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
Main entry: interpret, understand, translate, read
Definition: make sense of a language
Usage: She understands French; Can you read Greek?
Main entry: translate
Definition: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
Main entry: render, translate, interpret
Definition: restate (words) from one language into another language
Usage: 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.
Main entry: translate
Definition: express, as in simple and less technical language
Usage: Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?; Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?
Main entry: translate
Definition: bring to a certain spiritual state
Main entry: translate
Definition: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
Main entry: translate
Definition: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
Usage: poetry often does not translate; Tolstoy's novels translate well into English
Main entry: translate
Definition: be equivalent in effect
Usage: the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power