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translate

verb
/tɹɑːnzˈleɪt/UK/tɹænzˈleɪt/US/ˈtɹɛnz.læɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).

  1. derived from trānslātus
  2. derived from translater
  3. inherited from translaten — “to transport, translate, transform”

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. Senses relating to a change of position.

  3. 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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To repair (used shoes, boots or other clothing) for resale.

    2. In Euclidean spaces

      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.

The neighborhood

Derived

back-translate, backtranslate, cotranslate, Google Translate, machine-translate, mistranslate, overtranslate, retranslate, sight-translate, translatability, translatable, translatese, undertranslate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at translate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at translate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at translate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA