translate

verb

1. (transitive)Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

   “Hans translated my novel into Welsh.”

   “[H]e [Theodore Beza] tranſlateth animam, a Carcaſe: (ſo calling our Sauiour Christes bodie, irreuerently, and wickedly) he tranſlateth infernum, graue.”

   “His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to translate some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless. […] That kind of thing is very interesting to me. When I was learning Spanish, I would often take my favorite songs and try to translate them.”

   “There’s the Thor fly in tribute of the God of Thunder, played in Marvel by Chris Hemsworth. Its scientific name is “Daptolestes bronteflavus,” which is derived from Latin like most scientific names – and translates to “blond thunder.””

2. (intransitive)Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

   “Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.”

   “That idiom doesn’t really translate.”

   “‘Dog’ translates as ‘chien’ in French.”

   “However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.”

3. (transitive)Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

   “These works he [Oliver Goldsmith] produced without any elaborate research, by merely selecting, abridging, and translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.”

4. (transitive)Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

   “The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.”

   “[H]appy is your Grace / That can tranſlate the ſtubbornneſſe of fortune / Into ſo quiet and ſo ſweet a ſtile.”

   “Embracing slave spirituals as the foundation of the Negro music he hoped to develop, Cook sought to translate their sonic power and racial character into forms more readily accessible to American audiences of all races in the twentieth century.”

   “Sue Anne considered several approaches for translating the damselfly's vivid colors and translucent wings into handwoven cloth.”

5. (transitive)Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

   “If one were to chart the form of most film songs, translated into conventional terms used in Western music, one would likely see a structure that has an introduction and two or three stanzas: […]”

6. (intransitive)Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

   “Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.”

   “His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser.”

   “When perfection is achieved, the thrill of recognition in the audience fulfills local sensibilities, but translates poorly into academic discourse.”

   “Sometimes, ideas don't end up translating well. That's the nature of art. You may have the greatest idea since sliced bread in your mind, but when you translate it into a film, it just may not work.”

   “The authors believe that the results obtained in mice will translate well into clinical utility for patients.”

7. (transitive)Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

   “All mRNAs are translated on the basis of consecutive groups of three bases, codons, being interpreted by the translational machinery […]. Many diverse proteins and RNAs are involved in the translation of mRNA. First is the mRNA itself, which is the template "read" and translated into a protein product.”

8. Senses relating to a change of position.
9. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to a change of position.

   “Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.”

   “[H]e [David] Accuſeth not the King [Saul], but tranſlateth the fault wholly upon his Evil Miniſters; as the Iſraelites do in the like Caſe, Exod[us] 5. 16.”

   “To find one's self suddenly translated from the wild, flowery prairie into the heart of an aged, moss-grown village, of such foreign aspect, withal, was by no means easy to reconcile with one's notions of reality.”

10. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to a change of position.

    “Not far from hence is the Church and Convent of the Dominicans, where in the Chapel of St. Catherine of Sienna, they shew her head, the rest of her body being translated to Rome.”

11. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to a change of position.

    “Iohn Fiſher Biſhop of Rocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived.”

    “One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will[iam] Warham Principal or Moderator thereof; which he leaving this year (having before had ſeveral Deputies therein) becauſe of his preferment to the ſee of London, became void for ſome time. The year following the ſaid Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, […]”

12. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to a change of position.

    “By faith Enoch was tranſlated, that he ſhould not ſee death; and was not found, becauſe God had tranſlated him: For before his tranſlation he had this teſtimonie, that he pleaſed God.”

    “He [Vitus Theodorus] was called to be a Paſtor at Norinberg, his own country, […] till it pleaſed God to put an end to his labors, by tranſlating him out of this vale of tears into his Everlaſting Kingdom, Anno Chriſti 1549.”

    “And afterwards Thou [God] receivedst Seth and Enoch, and Enoch Thou translatedst; for Thou art the Creator of men, the Fountain of Life, the Supplier of Want, the Giver of Laws, the Rewarder of them that keep them, the Avenger of them that transgress them.”

13. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to a change of position.

    “After translating this plane, parallel to the ground line, to the position n#95;1L#95;1r#95;1, these points appear at n#95;1 and r#95;1.”

14. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to a change of position.

    “It is convenient at this point to translate the axis of the n dimensional space so that the origin of each axis occurs at its arithmetical mean.”

15. (archaic, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to a change of position.

    “He [John Mackintosh] considers all the eruptions, even erysipelas, in the light of natural blisters, established by powers inherent in the constitution, which enable it to translate disease from the internal organs to the skin; […]”

16. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to a change of position.

    “Consider a collection of objects – perfectly elastic pool balls, perhaps – rattling around inside a closed, isolated container. We can translate the container and its contents through space, and the physics inside the container is unchanged.”

17. (archaic, intransitive, transitive)Senses relating to a change of position.

    “If the ball were to hit the racket at its center of mass (CM) or balance point (which is usually in the throat of the racket), the racket recoil would be pure translation and there would be no rotation of the racket. Instead, if the ball were to hit in the center of the strung area, the racket would both translate (to conserve linear momentum) and rotate (to conserve angular momentum), […]”

    “Let us assume the gas molecule to be a structureless "billiard ball," translating in space and frequently colliding with the neighboring molecules.”

18. (obsolete, transitive)To entrance (“place in a trance”), to cause to lose recollection or sense.

    “William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes.”

19. (obsolete, slang, transitive)To repair (used shoes, boots or other clothing) for resale.

    “Boots and Shoes are not to be had, I am told, in sufficient quantity for the demand from the slop-shops, the "translators," and the second-hand dealers. Great quantities of second-hand boots and shoes are sent to Ireland to be "translated" there.”

noun

1. In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

   “[F]ractions with a defining relation are nothing but linear orthogonal arrays or their translates.”

   “If L is a vector space, a linear manifold (or affine subspace) in L is a subset which is a translate of a subspace M#92;subsetL, that is, a set F of the form x#95;0#43;M for some x#95;0#92;inL. [...] The dimension of a linear manifold is the dimension of the subspace of which it is a translate.”