translate (
http://definr.com/translate)
v 1: restate (words) from one language into another language; "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" [syn:
interpret,
render]
2: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque
translated collage into oil" [syn:
transform]
3: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you
read Greek?" [syn:
understand,
read,
interpret]
4: bring to a certain spiritual state
5: change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without
rotation, in mathematics
6: be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way;
"poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels
translate well into English"