Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Translate   /trænzlˈeɪt/  /trænslˈeɪt/   Listen
verb
Translate  v. t.  (past & past part. translated; pres. part. translating)  
1.
To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. (Archaic) "In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome."
2.
To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.
3.
To remove to heaven without a natural death. "By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim."
4.
(Eccl.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better,... refused."
5.
To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words. "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."
6.
To change into another form; to transform. "Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style."
7.
(Med.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.
8.
To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. (Obs.)



Translate  v. i.  To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Translate" Quotes from Famous Books



... bound by fate For ever, ever here, My walls I would translate To some more happy sphere, ...
— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden

... phrenologists would translate "acquisitiveness," The author is here attempting to reconcile man's moral responsibility, that is Freewill, with Fate by which all human actions are directed and controlled. I cannot see that he fails to "apprehend the knotty ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton

... very much interested, apparently, with what he heard. The stranger perceived that his cause was making progress, and continued his story with increased earnestness. At length he stopped to allow Mr Allwick to translate to his friends what had been said. Cousin Giles looked inquiringly at him for ...
— Fred Markham in Russia - The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar • W. H. G. Kingston

... School and Harrow playgrounds to London, and, later on, to Bath. London did not make him much more industrious or more careful than he had been at Harrow-on-the-Hill. It was far pleasanter to translate the honeyed Greek of Theocritus, with its babble of Sicilian shepherds, its nymphs and waters and Sicilian seas, than to follow the beaten track of ordinary education. It was vastly more entertaining to translate the impassioned prose of Aristaenetus into impassioned ...
— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) • Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy

... and disorder consists in the opposition that exists between our idea and the expression we give to it; our words convey a meaning contrary to what is in our mind; we say one thing and mean another. If we unwittingly utter what is contrary to fact, that is error; if we so clumsily translate our thoughts as to give a false impression of what we mean, and we do the best we can, that is a blunder; if in a moment of listlessness and inattention we speak in a manner that conflicts with our state of mind, that is temporary mental aberration. But if we ...
— Explanation of Catholic Morals - A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals • John H. Stapleton


More quotes...



Copyright © 2026 Free-Translator.com