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transitive verb1 a: to bear, remove, or change from one place, state, form, or appearance to another : transfer
, transform <a country boy translated to the city> <translate ideas into action> b: to convey to heaven or to a nontemporal condition without death c: to transfer (a bishop) from one see to another2 a: to turn into one's own or another language b: to transfer or turn from one set of symbols into another : transcribe c
(1): to express in different terms and especially different words : paraphrase
(2): to express in more comprehensible terms : explain
, interpret3: enrapture4: to subject to mathematical translation5: to subject (as genetic information) to translation in protein synthesisintransitive verb1: to practice translation or make a translation
; also : to admit of or be adaptable to translation <a word that doesn't translate easily>2: to undergo a translation3: lead
, result —usually used with into<believes that tax cuts will translate into economic growth>
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