Synonyms: transform, translate
Definition: change from one form or medium into another
Usage: Braque translated collage into oil
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: translate
Definition: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
Definition: cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
Usage: Move those boxes into the corner, please; I'm moving my money to another bank; The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant
Synonyms: interpret, understand, translate, read
Definition: make sense of a language
Usage: She understands French; Can you read Greek?
Similar words: understand
Definition: know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
Usage: She did not understand her husband; I understand what she means
Synonyms: translate
Definition: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
Similar words: ascertain, find, find out, determine
Definition: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
Usage: find the product of two numbers; The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize
Synonyms: 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.
Similar words: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell
Definition: to say, state, or perform again
Usage: She kept reiterating her request
Synonyms: 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?
Similar words: paraphrase, reword, rephrase
Definition: express the same message in different words
Synonyms: translate
Definition: bring to a certain spiritual state
Similar words: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport
Definition: send from one person or place to another
Usage: transmit a message
Synonyms: 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
Definition: cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
Usage: Move those boxes into the corner, please; I'm moving my money to another bank; The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant
Synonyms: translate
Definition: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
Usage: poetry often does not translate; Tolstoy's novels translate well into English
Similar words: be
Definition: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
Usage: John is rich; This is not a good answer
Synonyms: translate
Definition: be equivalent in effect
Usage: the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power
Definition: be identical or equivalent to
Usage: One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!